The Year’s Best Science Fiction:
Sixteenth Annual Collection

editor Gardner Dozois
(St. Martin’s Griffin 0-312-20445-0, July 1999 [June 1999], $17.95, 609 + lix, tp, cover by Bob Eggleton)
  • xi • Summation: 1998 • Gardner Dozois • ar
  • 1 • Oceanic • Greg Egan • na Asimov’s August 1998
  • 37 • Approaching Perimelasma • Geoffrey A. Landis • nv Asimov’s January 1998
  • 56 • Craphound • Cory Doctorow • ss Science Fiction Age March 1998
  • 72 • Jedella Ghost • Tanith Lee • ss Interzone September 1998
  • 87 • Taklamakan [Chattanooga] • Bruce Sterling • nv Asimov’s October/November 1998
  • 118 • The Island of the Immortals • Ursula K. Le Guin • ss Amazing Fall 1998
  • 126 • Sea Change, with Monsters • Paul J. McAuley • na Asimov’s September 1998
  • 161 • Divided by Infinity • Robert Charles Wilson • nv Starlight 2, editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Tor, 1998
  • 181 • US • Howard Waldrop • ss Event Horizon (Online) October 14 1998
  • 191 • The Days of Solomon Gursky • Ian McDonald • na Asimov’s June 1998
  • 234 • The Cuckoo’s Boys • Robert Reed • nv Science Fiction Age September 1998
  • 277 • The Halfway House at the Heart of Darkness • William Browning Spencer • ss Lord of the Fantastic: Stories in Honor of Roger Zelazny, editor Martin H. Greenberg, Avon Eos, 1998
  • 289 • The Very Pulse of the Machine • Michael Swanwick • ss Asimov’s February 1998
  • 304 • Story of Your Life • Ted Chiang • na Starlight 2, editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Tor, 1998
  • 339 • Voivodoi [as by E. H. Williams] • Liz Williams • ss Terra Incognita Summmer 1998
  • 349 • Saddlepoint: Roughneck [Saddlepoint] • Stephen Baxter • na Science Fiction Age May 1998
  • 393 • This Side of Independence • Rob Chilson • ss F&SF February 1998
  • 404 • Unborn Again • Chris Lawson • ss Dreaming Down-Under, editors Jack Dann & Janeen Webb, HarperCollins/Voyager Australis, 1998
  • 416 • Grist • Tony Daniel • na Asimov’s December 1998
  • 462 • La Cenerentola • Gwyneth Jones • ss Interzone October 1998
  • 476 • Down in the Dark • William Barton • nv Asimov’s December 1998
  • 510 • Free in Asveroth [“Free the Asveroth”] • Jim Grimsley • nv Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction, editors Nicola Griffith & Steve Pagel, White Wolf, 1998
  • 524 • The Dancing Floor • Cherry Wilder • nv Dreaming Down-Under, editors Jack Dann & Janeen Webb, HarperCollins/Voyager Australis, 1998
  • 544 • The Summer Isles • Ian R. MacLeod • na Asimov’s October/November 1998
  • 603 • Honorable Mentions: 1998 • Misc. Material • bi