The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection

Titles in bold are on the Classics of Science Fiction Short Stories v2 list.

Title Author/Editor↥ Year Citations Reviews
"Down in the Dark" William Barton 1998
1
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Saddlepoint: Roughneck" Stephen Baxter 1998
1
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Story of Your Life" Ted Chiang 1998
15
Sturgeon winner
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1973The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007)
1999Year's Best SF 4 edited by David G. Hartwell
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2010Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2016The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2024Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Novellas
"This Side of Independence" Rob Chilson 1998
2
1999Year's Best SF 4 edited by David G. Hartwell
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Grist" Tony Daniel 1998
2
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2006The Space Opera Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer
"Craphound" Cory Doctorow 1998
3
Sturgeon finalist
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2016The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
"Oceanic" Greg Egan 1998
5
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2007The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Free in Asveroth" Jim Grimsley 1998
1
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"La Cenerentola" Gwyneth Jones 1998
1
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Approaching Perimelasma" Geoffrey A. Landis 1998
1
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Unborn Again" Chris Lawson 1998
1
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Jedella Ghost" Tanith Lee 1998
1
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Island of the Immortals" Ursula K. Le Guin 1998
1
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Summer Isles" Ian R. MacLeod 1998
4
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Sea Change, With Monsters" Paul J. McAuley 1998
1
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Days of Solomon Gursky" Ian McDonald 1998
2
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
"The Cuckoo's Boys" Robert Reed 1998
1
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Halfway House at the Heart of Darkness" William Browning Spencer 1998
1
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Taklamakan" Bruce Sterling 1998
4
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2002The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer
"The Very Pulse of the Machine" Michael Swanwick 1998
2
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"US" Howard Waldrop 1998
1
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Dancing Floor" Cherry Wilder 1998
1
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Voivodoi" Liz Williams 1998
1
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Divided by Infinity" Robert Charles Wilson 1998
2
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
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