The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published in 2001. It is the 18th in The Year's Best Science Fiction series and won a 2002 Locus Award for best anthology.
Contents
The book includes a 39-page summation of the year by Dozois, 23 stories that first appeared in 2000 (each with a two-paragraph introduction by the editor), and a seven-page referenced list of honorable mentions for the year.
The stories are as follows:
John Kessel: "The Juniper Tree" Charles Stross: "Antibodies" (also collected in Toast: And Other Rusted Futures) Ursula K. Le Guin: "The Birthday Of the World" (also collected in The Birthday of the World and Other Stories) Nancy Kress: "Savior" Paul J. McAuley: "Reef" Susan Palwick: "Going After Bobo" Albert E. Cowdrey: "Crux" Severna Park: "The Cure For Everything" Peter F. Hamilton: "The Suspect Genome" Michael Swanwick: "The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-o" Lucius Shepard: "The Radiant Green Star" Alastair Reynolds: "Great Wall of Mars" Eliot Fintushel: "Milo and Sylvie" Brian Stableford: "Snowball In Hell" Stephen Baxter: "On the Orion Line" Greg Egan: "Oracle" Rick Cook and Ernest Hogan: "Obsidian Harvest" Tananarive Due: "Patient Zero" Charles Stross: "A Colder War" Steven Utley: "The Real World" M. Shayne Bell: "The Thing About Benny" Robert Charles Wilson: "The Great Goodbye" Ian McDonald: "Tendeléo's Story"
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