"David G. Hartwell - Year's Best SF 9" - читать интересную книгу автора (Hartwell David G)

Gene Wolfe
Castaway

Gregory Benford
The Hydrogen Wall

Ricard de la Casa and Pedro Jorge Romero
The Day We Went Through the Transition

Cory Doctorow
Nimby and the Dimension Hoppers

Robert Reed
Night of Time

Kage Baker
A Night on the Barbary Coast

Nigel Brown
Annuity Clinic

Allen M. Steele
The Madwoman of Shuttlefield

M. Rickert
Bread and Bombs

Stephen Baxter
The Great Game

Rick Moody
The Albertine Notes

About the Editors



Introduction
Well, 2003 is past—another good year to be reading SF, both in pro and semi-professional publications.
And as 2004 began, the President of the United States proposed a broad new initiative in space travel
and exploration for the near future. Surely this must bode well for space adventures in fiction, and there is
much strength to build on in SF already.
The year 2003 was a very strong one for science fiction novels and stories, and there were many
shorter stories in consideration. So we repeat, for readers new to this series, our usual disclaimer: This
selection of science fiction stories represents the best that was published during the year 2003. It would
take several more volumes this size to have nearly all of the best short stories—though, even then, not all
the best novellas. And we believe that representing the best from year to year, while it is not physically
possible to encompass it all in one even very large book, also implies presenting some substantial variety
of excellences, and we left some worthy stories out in order to include others in this limited space.