Year's
Best
SF 4
EDITED BY
David G. Hartwell
Year's
Best
SF 4
EDITED BY
David G. Hartwell
To Henry G. Hartwell (1907-1998), a good father, who died in 1998. He was an electrical engineer proud of his MIT degree, in his youth a passionate radio ham who never trusted Hugo Gernsback's magazines because some of the technology didn't work well. He did not often read fiction for pleasure until late in life. I got love of science and technology from him.
Acknowledgments
This part has not changed since last year. The existence of Locus and Tangents makes doing an annual anthology easier and I thank them both for their devotion to considering the short fiction published each year in the SF field. Secondly, I am grateful to the publishers of the SF magazines for continuing the uphill battle to stay in business and publish fiction in 1998.