A review by nwhyte
Year's Best SF 12 by Mary Rosenblum, Nancy Kress, Heather Lindsley, Claude Lalumière, Cory Doctorow, David G. Hartwell, Eileen Gunn, Michael Swanwick, Ian Creasey, Michael Flynn, Robert Reed, Gregory Benford, Wil McCarthy, Paul McAuley, Liz Williams, Stephen Baxter, Daryl Gregory, Alastair Reynolds, Gardner Dozois, Edd Vick, Kameron Hurley, Terry Bisson, Kathryn Cramer, Joe Haldeman, Carol Emshwiller, Charlie Rosenkrantz, Ian R. MacLeod, Rudy Rucker

3.0

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Good if somewhat gloomy selection of short SF first published in 2006; the only one I had read before was Michael Flynn's "Dawn, and Sunset, and the Colours of the Earth", which was also the only one of the 26 stories here to make it to either Hugo or Nebula shortlist (though the Locus Best Novelette winner, Cory Doctorow's "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth", is also here). Other stories here that I liked included Gardner Dozois' "Counterfactual" and Carol Emshwiller's "Quill".