In 1984, Gardner Dozois gathered together what he thought was the best short science fiction of the previous year. He scrutinized as many of the magazines, collections and anthologies published in 1983 that he could get his hands on and chose those which he felt best represented the science fiction field. Jim Frenkel published it as part of his Bluejay Books line (for three years) and it has been produced every year since then (by St. Martins's Press). The book is produced in two formats: a hard cover edition and a perfect bound paper cover version. Contents: Sorted by Volume | Sorted by Author | Sorted by Title

8 Dafydd ab Hugh The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk 22 Daniel Abraham Leviathan Wept 9 Brian W. Aldiss FOAM 11   Friendship Bridge 28 Nina Allan Flying in the Face of God 20 Anon. Introduction 1 Poul Anderson Vulcan's Forge 13 Genesis 17 Eleanor Arnason Dapple: A Hwarhath Historical Romance 19   Moby Quilt 20   The Potter of Bones 22   The Garden: A Hwarhath Science Fiction Romance 28   Mammoths of the Great Plains 30   Holmes Sherlock: A Hwarhath Mystery 23 Neal Asher Softly Spoke the Gabbleduck 25   Alien Archeology 31   The Other Gun 21 Paolo Bacigalupi The Fluted Girl 22   The People of Sand and Slag 23   The Calorie Man 24   Yellow Card Man 26   The Gambler 17 Kage Baker Son Observe the Time 20   The Hotel at Harlan's Landing 21   Welcome to Olympus, Mr. Hearst 22   Mother Aegypt 24   Where the Golden Apples Grow 25   Hellfire at Twilight 28   The Books 4 Scott Baker Sea Change 29 Peter M. Ball Dying Young 24 John Barnes Every Hole Is Outlined 25   The Ocean is a Snowflake, Four Billion Miles Away 27   Things Undone 29   Martian Heart 4 Neal Barrett, Jr. Sallie C. 5   Diner 5   Perpetuity Blues 7   Winter on the Belle Fourche 10   The Last Cardinal Bird in Tennessee 11   Cush 14 William Barton Changes 16   Down in the Dark 21   Off on a Starship 30 Christopher Barzak Invisible Men 11 Stephen Baxter Lieserl 12   Cilia-of-Gold 14   In the MSOB 15   Moon Six 16   Saddlepoint: Roughneck 17   People Came from Earth 18   On the Orion Line 22   Mayflower II 23   The Children of Time 24   The Pacific Mystery 25   Last Contact 26   Turing's Apples 28   Return to Titan 29   The Invasion of Venus 31   Earth 1 29 Peter S. Beagle The Way It Works Out and All 23 Elizabeth Bear Two Dreams on Trains 25   Tideline 29   Dolly 30   In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns 24 Elizabeth Bear And Sarah Monette The Ile of Dogges 26   Boojum 27   Mongoose 1 Greg Bear Blood Music 1   Hardfought 4   Tangents 9 Chris Beckett La Macchina 19   Marcher 20   To Become a Warrior 23   Piccadilly Circus 28   The Peacock Cloak 18 M. Shayne Bell The Thing About Benny 21   Anomalous Structures of My Dreams 7 Gregory Benford Alphas 9   Matter's End 14   Immersion 20   The Clear Blue Seas of Luna 24   Bow Shock 25   Dark Heaven 15 Gregory Benford & Elisabeth Malartre A Cold, Dry Cradle 3 James P. Blaylock Paper Dragons 14   Thirteen Phantasms 5 Michael Bishop For Thus Do I Remember Carthage 12   Cri de Coeur 30   Twenty Lights to "The Land Of Snow" 8 Terry Bisson Bears Discover Fire 10   Two Guys from the Future 12   The Hole in the Hole 13   There Are No Dead 21   Dear Abbey 22   Scout's Honor 19 Michael Blumlein Know How, Can Do 17 Ben Bova Mount Olympus 7 Alan Brennert The Third Sex 15   Echoes 14 Damien Broderick Schrödinger's Dog 27   This Wind Blowing, And This Tide 28   Under the Moons of Venus 29   The Beancounter's Cat 31   Quicken 25 Keith Brooke The Accord 8 John Brunner The First Since Ancient Persia 27 Karl Bunker Under The Shouting Sky 31   Gray Wings 2 Octavia E. Butler Bloodchild 5   The Evening and the Morning and the Night 1 Pat Cadigan Nearly Departed 2   Rock On 3   Roadside Rescue 4   Pretty Boy Crossover 5   Angel 6   It Was the Heat 9   Dispatches from the Revolution 10   Naming Names 11   Love Toys of the Gods 12   Paris In June 13   Death in the Promised Land 25   Nothing Personal 28   The Taste of Night 29   Cody 30   The Girl-thing Who Went Out for Sushi 11 Jack Cady The Night We Buried Road Dog 22 James L. Cambias The Ocean of the Blind 26   Balancing Accounts 3 Orson Scott Card The Fringe 4   Hatrack River 5   America 14 Michael Cassutt The Longer Voyage 19   More Adventures on Other Planets 8 Ted Chiang Tower of Babylon 16   Story of Your Life 25   The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate 16 Rob Chilson This Side of Independence 10 Arthur C. Clarke The Hammer of God 17 Hal Clement Exchange Rate 19 Brenda W. Clough May Be Some Time 18 Rick Cook & Ernest Hogan Obsidian Harvest 28 Brenda Cooper My Father's Singularity 27 Paul Cornell One of Our Bastards Is Missing 29   The Copenhagen Interpretation 14 Jim Cowan The Spade of Reason 18 Albert E. Cowdrey Crux 22   The Tribes of Bela 27   Paradiso Lost 2 Richard Cowper A Message to the King of Brobdingnag 27 Ian Creasey Erosion 3 John Crowley Snow 7   Great Work of Time

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