David Hartwell's guiding principle for his annual science fiction anthologies is that the stories be clearly science fiction--not fantasy, horror, or postmodern. As always, for the 2001 edition he has chosen stories representing the best of the SF field, along with several short pieces published in Nature magazine as part of a millennium celebration.

Don't miss Tananarive Due's "Patient Zero," which assumes Greg Egan's frequent spotlight on medical SF (this year Egan covers philosophy vs. science in his alternate history "Oracle"); Stephen Dedman's detective story about amputation, "The Devotee"; Stephen Baxter's hard SF "Sheena 5," which is about an enhanced squid and her mission; Ursula K. LeGuin's anthropological tale "The Birthday of the World"; or Nancy Kress's succinct, pithy "To Cuddle Amy."

2001 Hugo Award nominees include "Seventy-Two Letters" by Ted Chiang, "Oracle" by Greg Egan, and short story winner "Different Kinds of Darkness" by David Langford. --Bonnie Bouman



"The finest modern science fiction writing."



"Impressive."


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Get Ready To Expand Your Mind...Acclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell is back with the sixth annual collection of the year's most impressive, thought-provoking, and just plain great science fiction.Year's Best SF 6 includes contributions from the greatest stars of the field as well as remarkable newcomers -- galaxies and into unexplored territory deep within your own soul.Here are stories from:Brian W. Aldiss Stephen Baxter David Brin Nancy Kress Ursula K. Le Guin Robert Silverbergand many more...


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Get Ready To Expand Your Mind...Acclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell is back with the sixth annual collection of the year's most impressive, thought-provoking, and just plain great science fiction.Year's Best SF 6 includes contributions from the greatest stars of the field as well as remarkable newcomers -- galaxies and into unexplored territory deep within your own soul.Here are stories from:Brian W. Aldiss Stephen Baxter David Brin Nancy Kress Ursula K. Le Guin Robert Silverbergand many more...


About the Author
David G. Hartwell is a Senior Editor at Tor/Forge Books. He is the proprietor of Dragon Press, publisher and bookseller, which publishes The New York Review of Science Fiction. He is the author of Age of Wonders and the editor of many anthologies, including The Dark Descent, Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment, The World Treasury of Science Fiction, Northern Stars, The Ascent of Wonder (co-edited with Kathryn Cramer), and a number of Christmas anthologies. Recently he edited his sixth annual paperback volume of Year's Best SF and co-edited the new Year's Best Fantasy. He has won the Eaton Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Science Fiction Chronicle Poll and has been nominated for the Hugo Award twenty-four times to date.

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The Barnes & Noble Review
Science fiction as short fiction is perhaps my favorite form of the literary genre, and David G. Hartwell's Year's Best series is a collection -- full of humor, drama, style, and surprises -- that never disappoints. Here are just some of the high points in the Sixth Edition.

Leading off the collection is Paul J. McAuley's "Reef," a tightly written, hard SF story about scientists and ambition, as an experiment in genetics lost for years sparks a desperate act of rebellion in an unlikely heroine.

An illustrious band of "dead" men wreak havoc at the dawn of the 31st century, vandalizing the tranquil paradise-on-earth mankind has finally created for himself in Robert Silverberg's "The Millennium Express." Global warming has been solved (way too well), a new Ice Age is threatening and the engineers are coming to blows in Norman Spinrad's excellent "New Ice Age or Just Cold Feet?" Stephen Dedman's "The Devotee" is a first-rate hard-boiled SF that would make Robert Parker proud. A superb story by one of my favorite authors, Ursula K. Le Guin, highlights this volume. "The Birthday of the World" is an anthropological story told from the point of view of a young girl, the Daughter of God, who in time will become God herself. Le Guin creates an intriguing new race -- their myths, beliefs, and legends. Their way of life and the things they hold sacred are beautifully illustrated. Ambition challenges faith as the old world dies and a new one is born out of a close encounter. Rounded out with fiction by Ken MacLeod, Joan Slonczewski, Greg Egan, Michael F. Flynn and Robert Sheckley, Year's Best SF 6 is, in a word, excellent. (Jim Killen)

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Get Ready To Expand Your Mind...

Acclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell is back with the sixth annual collection of the year's most impressive, thought-provoking, and just plain great science fiction.

Year's Best SF 6 includes contributions from the greatest stars of the field as well as remarkable newcomers — galaxies and into unexplored territory deep within your own soul.

Here are stories from:Brian W. Aldiss Stephen Baxter David Brin Nancy Kress Ursula K. Le Guin Robert Silverberg