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
"Story of Your Life" Ted Chiang 1998
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
"Oceanic" Greg Egan 1998
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
"The Summer Isles" Ian R. MacLeod 1998
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Taklamakan" Bruce Sterling 1998
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
"Craphound" Cory Doctorow 1998
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
"The Days of Solomon Gursky" Ian McDonald 1998
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
"Divided by Infinity" Robert Charles Wilson 1998
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Grist" Tony Daniel 1998
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2006The Space Opera Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer
"This Side of Independence" Rob Chilson 1998
1999Year's Best SF 4 edited by David G. Hartwell
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Very Pulse of the Machine" Michael Swanwick 1998
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Approaching Perimelasma" Geoffrey A. Landis 1998
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Cuckoo's Boys" Robert Reed 1998
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Dancing Floor" Cherry Wilder 1998
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Down in the Dark" William Barton 1998
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Free in Asveroth" Jim Grimsley 1998
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
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Island of the Immortals" Ursula K. Le Guin 1998
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Jedella Ghost" Tanith Lee 1998
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"La Cenerentola" Gwyneth Jones 1998
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Saddlepoint: Roughneck" Stephen Baxter 1998
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Sea Change, With Monsters" Paul J. McAuley 1998
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Unborn Again" Chris Lawson 1998
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"US" Howard Waldrop 1998
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Voivodoi" Liz Williams 1998
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
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