The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection Explained

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection
Editor:Gardner Dozois
Cover Artist:Bob Eggleton
Country:United States
Language:English
Series:The Year's Best Science Fiction
Publisher:St. Martin's Press
Release Date:1992
Media Type:Print (hardcover & trade paperback)
Pages:575 pp
Isbn:9780312078904

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published in 1992. It is the 9th in The Year's Best Science Fiction series and won the Locus Award for best anthology.[1]

Contents

The book includes a 50-page summation by Dozois; 28 stories, all that first appeared in 1991, and each with a two-paragraph introduction by Dozois; and a referenced list of honorable mentions for the year. The stories are as follows.

"Beggars in Spain", which went on to win the 1992 Hugo Award for Best Novella

"Living Will"

"A Just and Lasting Peace"

"Skinner's Room"

"Prayers on the Wind"

"Blood Sisters"

"The Dark"

"Marnie"

"A Tip on a Turtle"

"Ubermensch!"

"Dispatches from the Revolution"

"Pipes"

"Matter's End"

"A History of the Twentieth Century, with Illustrations"

"Gene Wars"

"The Gallery of His Dreams"

"A Walk in the Sun", which went on to win the 1992 Hugo Award for Best Short Story

"Fragments of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria"

"Angels in Love"

"Eyewall"

"Pogrom"

"The Moat"

"Voices"

"FOAM"

"Jack"

"La Macchina"

"One Perfect Morning, with Jackals"

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Notes and References

  1. Locus Awards Nominee list, Web site: The Locus Index to SF Awards: Locus Award Nominees List . July 9, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150531005008/http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/LocusNomList.html . May 31, 2015 .