| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection | |
| Editor: | Gardner Dozois |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Year's Best Science Fiction |
| Publisher: | St. Martin's Press |
| Release Date: | 2006 |
| Media Type: | Print (hardcover & trade paperback) |
| Pages: | 660 pp |
| Isbn: | 9780312353353 |
| Isbn Note: | (hardcover) (trade paperback) |
| Oclc: | 69483800 |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published in 2006. It is the 23rd in The Year's Best Science Fiction series. It won the Locus Award for best anthology in 2007.[1]
The book includes a 30-page summation by Dozois; 29 stories, all that first appeared in 2005, and each with a two-paragraph introduction by Dozois; and a ten-page referenced list of honorable mentions for the year. The stories are as follows:[2]
"The Little Goddess"
"The Calorie Man"
"Beyond the Aquila Rift"
"Triceratops Summer"
"Camouflage"
"A Case of Consilience"
"The Blemmye's Strategem"
"Amba"
"Search Engine"
"Picadilly Circus"
"In the Quake Zone"
"La Malcontenta"
"The Children of Time"
"Little Faces"
"Comber"
"Audubon in Atlantis"
"Deus Ex Homine"
"The Great Caruso"
"Softly Spoke the Gabbleduck"
"Zima Blue"
"Planet of the Amazon Women"
"Gold Mountain"
"The Fulcrum"
"Two Dreams on Trains"
"Angel of Light"
"Burn"