The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection

dust cover of first edition
Author edited by Gardner Dozois
Cover artist Alan Gutierrez
Country United States
Language English
Series The Year's Best Science Fiction
Genre Science fiction short stories
Publisher St. Martin's Press
Publication date
1988
Media type Print (hardcover)
Pages xxv, 678 pp.
ISBN 0-312-01853-3
OCLC 18121368
813.0876
LC Class PN6071.S33 Y432 1988
Preceded by The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection
Followed by The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Gardner Dozois, the fifth volume in an ongoing series. It was first published in hardcover and trade paperback by St. Martin's Press in May 1988, with the latter reprinted in June 1994. The first British edition was published in hardcover and trade paperback by Robinson in September 1988, under the alternate title Best New SF 2.[1]

The book collects twenty-eight novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introductory summation of the year, notes and concluding bibliography by the editor. The stories were previously published in 1987 in various science fiction and other magazines.[1]

Contents

Awards

The anthology placed second in the 1989 Locus Poll Award for Best Anthology.[1]

Notes

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