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Year's Best Science Fiction
''The Year's Best Science Fiction'' was a series of science fiction anthology, anthologies edited by American Gardner Dozois until his death in 2018. The series, which is unrelated to the similarly titled and themed ''Year's Best SF'', was published by St. Martin's Press, St. Martin's Griffin. The collections were produced annually for 35 years starting in 1984. In the UK, the series was titled ''The Mammoth Book Of Best New Science Fiction'' and published by Constable & Robinson, Robinson. ''The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection, The Fourth Annual Collection in the US'', in 1987, became the ''first'' book of the "Mammoth series" in the UK. For the next five years, from 1988 through 1993, the UK series was titled ''Best New SF'' (#2 through #7). Best of the Best series In 2005, Dozois edited the Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction, first "Best of the Best" compilation. A Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Year's Best Short Sci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the singularity. Science fiction predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Science fiction, in literature, film, television, and other media, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
