anthology: THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST SHORT SF NOVELS

Science fiction is ideally suited to the short novel form: long enough to conjure an alien or future society in our imaginations, yet elegant and powerful — free of padding. Award-winning editor Gardner Dozois presents here the 13 finest science fiction novellas of the last two decades.

CONTENTS:

• Sailing to Byzantium(Robert Silverberg)
• Surfacing (Walter Jon Williams)
• The Hemingway Hoax (Joe Haldeman)
• Mr. Boy (James Patrick Kelly)
• Beggars in Spain (Nancy Kress)
• Griffin's Egg (Michael Swanwick)
• Outnumbering the Dead (Frederik Pohl)
• Forgiveness Day (Ursula K. Le Guin)
• The Cost to Be Wise (Maureen F. McHugh)
• Oceanic (Greg Egan)
• Tendeléo's Story (Ian McDonald)
• New Light on the Drake Equation (Ian R. MacLeod)
• Turquoise Days (Alastair Reynolds)

EDITED BY: Gardner Dozois

COVER: paperback

PAGES: 800

LANGUAGE: english