[Year's Best SF 03] • The Wisdom Of Old Earth

Experience New Realms

Acclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell returns with this fifth annual collection of the year's most imaginative, entertaining, and mind-expanding science fiction.

Here are works from some of today's most acclaimed authors, as well as visionary new talents, that will introduce you to new ideas, offer unusual perspectives, and take you to places beyond your wildest imaginings.

Contents

ix • Introduction (Year's Best SF 3) • (1998) • essay by David G. Hartwell

1 • Petting Zoo • (1997) • short story by Gene Wolfe

9 • The Wisdom of Old Earth • (1997) • short story by Michael Swanwick

23 • The Firefly Tree • (1997) • short story by Jack Williamson

29 • Thirteen Views of a Cardboard City • (1997) • short story by William Gibson

41 • The Nostalginauts • (1997) • short story by Sharon N. Farber [as by S. N. Dyer ]

53 • Guest Law • (1997) • novelette by John C. Wright

77 • The Voice • (1997) • short story by Gregory Benford

95 • Yeyuka • (1997) • short story by Greg Egan

117 • An Office Romance • (1997) • short story by Terry Bisson

135 • Itsy Bitsy Spider • (1997) • short story by James Patrick Kelly

151 • Beauty in the Night • (1997) • novelette by Robert Silverberg

197 • Mr. Pale • (1997) • short story by Ray Bradbury

205 • The Pipes of Pan • (1997) • novelette by Brian Stableford

233 • Always True to Thee, in My Fashion • (1997) • short story by Nancy Kress

249 • Canary Land • (1997) • novelette by Tom Purdom

277 • Universal Emulators • (1997) • short story by Tom Cool

295 • Fair Verona • (1997) • novelette by R. Garcia y Robertson

331 • Great Western • (1997) • novelette by Kim Newman

363 • Turnover • (1997) • short story by Geoffrey A. Landis

369 • The Mendelian Lamp Case • [Dr Phil D'Amato] • (1997) • novelette by Paul Levinson

415 • Kiss Me • (1997) • short story by Katherine MacLean

421 • London Bone • (1997) • novelette by Michael Moorcock