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  • Robert Mckillip
    5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent collection!
    Reviewed in Canada on June 27, 2025
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    A well thought out selection of stores. I enjoyed them all.
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  • John M. Ford
    4.0 out of 5 stars The Flood of Time
    Reviewed in Canada on February 21, 2013
    I don't envy Gardner Dozois his task of selecting the thirty-six stories in this book from 20 years of his Best of the Year collections--which in themselves required painful decisions to exclude many first-rate stories. I am glad he put himself through it, though. These are the stories that made the greatest impression on him as a reader--a reader with an educated palate earned through decades of fine reading.

    My favorites:

    Pat Cadigan's "Roadside Rescue" is a brief tale about a man whose car breaks down and is repaired through the generosity of an alien visitor. Perhaps generosity isn't quite the right word...

    John Crowley's "Snow" introduces a new, high-tech method of remembering a loved one after they die. It has its complications, both technical and emotional.

    Terry Bisson's "Bears Discover Fire" is one of my very favorite stories. Enough with super-intelligent aliens and artificial intelligences! What would it be like if ordinary animals became just a little bit smarter? Well...

    Greg Egan stretches the imagination with "Wang's Carpets," a new kind of life that exists in the same physical world as humans, but several layers of abstraction away from us. Sort of...

    In Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life" a mother pieces together the narratives of her life and of her daughter's life. It's a little hard to follow without some translation.

    Please don't let my taste affect your reading more than it should; all thirty-six of these stories are very good. I suggest reading every one of them then trying to select your own top five. It's interesting to experience some small fraction of Gardner Dozois' pain in selecting them.
    4 people found this helpful
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  • Bill Gardner
    2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing!
    Reviewed in Canada on January 5, 2025
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    I read 8 stories, disliking most of them as "not sci fi enough" for me, and gave up on the collection partway through the 9th story. I don't know whether my taste in sci fi is out of sync with the editor's (ironic considering we share the name "Gardner") or my "old time" taste (formed in the '60s) is out of sync with later trends.
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  • nanoJak
    4.0 out of 5 stars The interlude
    Reviewed in Canada on January 24, 2007
    There is no doubt about Mr. Dozois' eye for identifying the best short stories in the SF publishing world. Published in 2005, this anthology gathers his favorites among the stories that have appeared in his "Year's best" anthologies over a period of 20 years. Now if these stories are representative of the genre, and while there are too few to be statistically significant I suspect that they are representative, the most interesting point is how this collection relates to Mr. Dozois' most recent "Year's best" anthology published in 2006. While it is striking that many of the latter's stories dealt with end of the world scenarios, usually of an environmental nature, there are absolutely none related to this theme in this 20 year collection. It thus appears that the premise that the end of the world is making a strong comeback in the SF literature, after a hiatus in the post cold war world, just might be correct. After decades of literature where bleakness and catastrophe was at the core of the stories, this 20 year anthology is actually pretty innocent from this point of view, concentrating instead on the examination of some pretty original concepts. This innocence evident in the collection leads to quite a pleasant read, away from the stress that we now face every time that a new report comes out indicating that things are getting much worse far faster than we ever thought possible. So read it while you can, because if the last yearly anthology is any indication, the stories will be getting a lot darker very soon.
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  • Scott Holladay
    2.0 out of 5 stars Too many downers for my taste
    Reviewed in Canada on January 4, 2025
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    Science fiction story collections should not be uniformly depressing.
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  • Bob Justman
    5.0 out of 5 stars Essential
    Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2016
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    Some of the best, indeed. Nancy Kress, Gregory Benford, Stephen Baxter, etc. are all represented, here with some of their best work. Much of the stories lean toward "Space Opera," which I feel is a refreshing expansion of the genre, eschewing science in favor of humanistic stories. I feel as though the genre is in good hands, if this collection is any indication of the talent inheriting the genre's future.
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  • John M. Ford
    4.0 out of 5 stars The Flood of Time
    Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2011
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    I don't envy Gardner Dozois his task of selecting the thirty-six stories in this book from 20 years of his Best of the Year collections--which in themselves required painful decisions to exclude many first-rate stories. I am glad he put himself through it, though. These are the stories that made the greatest impression on him as a reader--a reader with an educated palate earned through decades of fine reading.

    My favorites:

    Pat Cadigan's "Roadside Rescue" is a brief tale about a man whose car breaks down and is repaired through the generosity of an alien visitor. Perhaps generosity isn't quite the right word...

    John Crowley's "Snow" introduces a new, high-tech method of remembering a loved one after they die. It has its complications, both technical and emotional.

    Terry Bisson's "Bears Discover Fire" is one of my very favorite stories. Enough with super-intelligent aliens and artificial intelligences! What would it be like if ordinary animals became just a little bit smarter? Well...

    Greg Egan stretches the imagination with "Wang's Carpets," a new kind of life that exists in the same physical world as humans, but several layers of abstraction away from us. Sort of...

    In Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life" a mother pieces together the narratives of her life and of her daughter's life. It's a little hard to follow without some translation.

    Please don't let my taste affect your reading more than it should; all thirty-six of these stories are very good. I suggest reading every one of them then trying to select your own top five. It's interesting to experience some small fraction of Gardner Dozois' pain in selecting them.
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  • Frank M
    2.0 out of 5 stars If these are the best of the best, how bad must the test be?
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 23, 2024
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    I believe my headline explains this book quite accurately. OK granted that it is very subjective, but I found most of the stories dull, not well written and many, not even sci-fi.

    The few I enjoyed were from the well known authors, which prove why they are well known......

    But, what do I know?
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  • GARY
    5.0 out of 5 stars The best of two worlds
    Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2013
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    I've been reading sci-fi for over 60 years & I love the short-story form.......also, this is my very first Kindle book & this medium serves me extremely well..........
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  • Bayou Reader
    3.0 out of 5 stars Good Read
    Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2013
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    Science Fiction has under gone many changes since I started reading this genre in 1965. Some years are better than others. This collection of stories has a several gems, the rest are adequate to keep my attention.
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