| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth 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: | 1995 |
| Media Type: | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages: | 697 pp |
| Isbn: | 9780312132224 |
| Isbn Note: | (hardcover) |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published in 1995. It is the 12th in The Year's Best Science Fiction series and won the Locus Award for best anthology.[1]
The book includes a 50-page summation by Dozois; 23 stories, all that first appeared in 1994, and each with a two-paragraph introduction by Dozois; and a referenced list of honorable mentions for the year. The stories are as follows.
"Forgiveness Day"
"The Remoras"
"Nekropolis"
"Margin of Error"
"Cilia-of-gold"
"Going After Old Man Alabama"
"Melodies of the Heart"
"The Hole in the Hole"
"Paris In June"
"Flowering Mandrake"
"None So Blind," won the 1995 Hugo Award for Best Short Story
"Cocoon"
"Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge," won the 1995 Hugo Award for Best Novella
"Dead Space for the Unexpected"
"Cri de Coeur"
"The Sawing Boys"
"The Matter of Seggri"
"Ylem"
"Asylum"
"Red Elvis"
"California Dreamer"
"Split Light"
"Les Fleurs du Mal"