Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition
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KEN MACLEOD holds a degree in zoology and has worked in the fields of biomechanics and computer programming. His first two novels, The Star Fraction and The Stone Canal, each won the Prometheus Award; The Cassini Division was a finalist for the Nebula Award; and The Sky Road won the British Science Fiction Association Award and was a finalist for the Hugo Award.
Ken MacLeod lives near Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife and children.
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ROBERT REED has written more than ten science fiction novels including his recent The Well of Stars. He has been nominated for the Hugo Award for his short fiction, which has appeared in the major SF magazines. He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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JACK SKILLINGSTEAD lives in Seattle. His stories have appeared in Asimov's, Realms of Fantasy, On Spec and Talebones, as well as various Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies. He has been translated into Russian, Spanish, Romanian and Greek. In 2000 his entry was a winner in Stephen King's “On Writing” contest. In 2008 and 2009 his work will appear in Fast Forward 2 and The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction. Jack is a 2004 finalist for the Sturgeon Award.
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NANCY KRESS is the author of twenty-one books: thirteen novels of science fiction or fantasy, one YA novel, two thrillers, three story collections, and two books on writing. Her most recent books are Probability Space, the conclusion of a trilogy that began with Probability Moon and Probability Sun; Crossfire, Nothing Human, and Dogs.
She teaches regularly at summer conferences such as Clarion, and during the year at the Bethesda Writing Center in Bethesda, Maryland. In addition, she is the “Fiction” columnist for Writer's Digest magazine. She has won two Nebulas and a Hugo, and lost over a dozen more of these awards. Her work has been translated into Swedish, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Polish, Croatian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Japanese, and Russian, none of which she can read.
HOLLY PHILLIPS lives by the Columbia River in the mountains of western Canada. She is the author of the award-winning story collection In the Palace of Repose. Her fantasy novel Engine's Child will be published by Del Rey in 2008.
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ALEXANDER JABLOKOV has no head for business, but finds it fascinating. This explains a few things about both the quality of his writing and the state of his finances. He has written a number of novels, findable in the near-surface strata of several active archeological digs, and a bit of short fiction, still recent enough to be viewed with dismay. He has discovered that raising children is an indecently high-overhead method of gathering material for his writing. Now that they are old enough to prefer being ignored, he hopes his productivity will improve.
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MARY ROBINETTE KOWAL is a professional puppeteer who moonlights as a writer. Originally from North Carolina, Mrs. Kowal lives in New York or Iceland. Her short fiction appears in Strange Horizons, Cosmos and CICADA. Visit her website www.maryrobinettekowal.com
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WILL MCINTOSH made his first professional sale to Interzone in 2005. Since then he has published in Asimov's, Strange Horizons, Postscripts, CHIZINE, Black Static, and many other venues. He was shortlisted for both the British Science Fiction Association and British Fantasy Society awards for best short story of 2005. By day, he is a psychology professor in the southereastern U.S.
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In his day life, Dr. GEOFFREY LANDIS is a meek and mild-mannered scientist. During 2006 he was the Ronald E. McNair Visiting Professor of Astronautics at MIT, the institution where he received his undergraduate degrees in Physics and in Electrical Engineering. His scientific work includes being a member of the science team on the Mars Exploration Rovers mission and working on advanced technology for space flight at NASA Glenn Research Center. Dr. Landis writes under the name “Geoffrey A. Landis.” An award-winning author, He has written seventy-five short stories, which been translated into twenty-three languages. His books include the novel Mars Crossing and the short story collection Impact Parameter and Other Quantum Realities. More information is available on his website at www.sff.net/people/geoffrey.landis.
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MICHAEL SWANWICK is one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation. He has received a Hugo Award for short fiction an unprecedented five times in six years. He has also received the Nebula, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial and World Fantasy Awards. His stories are frequently reprinted in Best of the Year anthologies and have been translated and published throughout the world. His newest novel, The Dragons of Babel, was published to critical acclaim in January by Tor Books. The Dog Said Bow-Wow, his most recent collection, is available from Tachyon Publications.
He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Marianne Porter, and is currently at work on a novel featuring Darger and Surplus, Postutopian gentlemen and confidence artists.
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PUBLICATION HISTORY
“Dark Integers” copyright © 2007 by Greg Egan. First published in Asimov's. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“A Plain Tale From Our Hills” copyright © 2007 by Bruce Sterling. First published in Subterranean Magazine. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“An Eye For an Eye” copyright © 2007 by Charles Coleman Finlay. First published in F&SF. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Always” copyright © 2007 by Karen Joy Fowler. First published in Asimov's. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“An Ocean is a Snowflake, Four Billion Miles Away” copyright © 2007 by John Barnes. First published in Baen's Universe. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Virus Changes Skin” copyright © 2007 by Ekaterina Sedia. First published in Analog. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Wikiworld” copyright © 2007 by Paul Di Filippo. First published in Fast Forward 1. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Artifice and Intelligence” copyright © 2007 by Tim Pratt. First published in Strange Horizons. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Jesus Christ, Reanimator” copyright © 2007 by Ken MacLeod. First published in Fast Forward 1. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Night Calls” copyright © 2007 by Robert Reed. First published in Asimov's. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Everyone Bleeds Through” copyright © 2007 by Jack Skillingstead. First published in Realms of Fantasy. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Art of War” copyright © 2007 by Nancy Kress. First published in The New Space Opera. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Three Days of Rain” copyright © 2007 by Holly Phillips. First published in Asimov's. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Brain Raid” copyright © 2007 by Alexander Jablokov. First published in F&SF. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“For Solo Cello, OP. 12” copyright © 2007 by Mary Robinette Kowal. First published in Cosmos. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Perfect Violet” copyright © 2007 by Will McIntosh. First published in On Spec. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Vectoring” copyright © 2007 by Geoffrey Landis. First published in Analog. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Skysailor's Tale” copyright © 2007 by Michael Swanwick. First published in The Dog Said Bow-Wow. Reprinted by permission of the author.
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