A review by bev_reads_mysteries
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection by Frederik Pohl, Hal Clement, Greg Egan, Kage Baker, Geoff Ryman, Eleanor Arnason, Robert Grossbach, M. John Harrison, Michael Swanwick, Sage Walker, Karl Schroeder, David Marusek, Robert Reed, Mike Resnick, Richard Wadholm, Paul McAuley, Stephen Baxter, Ben Bova, Robert Silverberg, Alastair Reynolds, Gardner Dozois, Tanith Lee, James Patrick Kelly, Chris Lawson, Charles Sheffield, Kim Stanley Robinson, Walter Jon Williams

4.0

I have been working on The Year's Best Science Fiction 17th Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois all year. When I signed up for Jay's Deal Me In Challenge, it required that we submit a list of short stories that we we would like to read over the course of the year--one per week, dealt to us at random with the luck of the draw. I decided that this would be the chance to finally read this huge collection of science fiction stories that I got for Christmas one year. Dipping into it now and then would be less difficult than reading 640 pages all in one go.

Dozois does an excellent job selecting stories representative of each year in science fiction--the stories range from hard science fiction to fantasy and everything in between. There are cautionary tales and what ifs; there are peaks at the future and the past. Overall, a fine collection.

Please see full review at my blog My Reader's Block for short summaries of each story.