| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection | |
| Editor: | Gardner Dozois |
| Illustrator: | Slawek Wojtowicz |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Year's Best Science Fiction |
| Publisher: | St. Martin's Press |
| Release Date: | July 5, 2011 |
| Media Type: | Print (hardcover & trade paperback) |
| Pages: | 662 pp |
| Isbn: | 9780312546335 |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published on July 5, 2011. It is the 28th in The Year's Best Science Fiction series. It won the Locus Award for best anthology.[1]
The anthology was also published in the UK as The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 24.[2]
The book includes 33 stories, all first published in 2010. The book also includes a summation by Dozois, a brief introduction to each story by Dozois and a referenced list of honorable mentions for the year. The stories are as follows:[1]
"A History of Terraforming"
"The Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String"
"The Emperor of Mars"
"The Sultan of the Clouds"
"The Books"
"Re-Crossing the Styx"
"And Ministers of Grace"
"Mammoths of the Great Plains"
"Sleeping Dogs"
"Jackie's Boy"
"Flying in the Face of God"
"Chicken Little"
"Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain"
"Return to Titan"
"Under the Moons of Venus"
"Seven Years from Home"
"The Peacock Cloak"
"Amaryllis"
"Seven Cities of Gold"
"Again and Again and Again"
"Elegy for a Young Elk"
"Libertarian Russia"
"The Night Train"
"My Father's Singularity"
"Sleepover"
"The Taste of Night"
"Blind Cat Dance"
"The Shipmaker"
"In-Fall"
"Chimbwi"
"Dead Man's Run"