The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published in 2002. It is the 19th in The Year's Best Science Fiction series. It received the Locus Award for best anthology in 2003.

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection

Editor	Gardner Dozois
Language	English
Series	The Year's Best Science Fiction
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	St. Martin's Press
Publication date	2002
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardcover & trade paperback)
Pages	637 pp
ISBN	9780312288792
Preceded by	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection
Followed by	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection

Contents

The book includes a 34-page summation by Dozois; 26 stories, all that first appeared in 2001, and each with a two-paragraph introduction by Dozois; and a seven-page referenced list of honorable mentions for the year. The stories are as follows.

• Ian R. MacLeod: "New Light On the Drake Equation"
• Michael Cassutt: "More Adventures On Other Planets"
• Dan Simmons: "On K2 With Kanakaredes"
• William Sanders: "When This World Is All On Fire"
• Nancy Kress: "Computer Virus"
• Geoff Ryman: "Have Not Have"
• Charles Stross: "Lobsters"
• Michael Swanwick: "The Dog Said Bow-Wow"
• Andy Duncan: "The Chief Designer"
• Paul Di Filippo: "Neutrino Drag"
• Alastair Reynolds: "Glacial"
• Allen M. Steele: "The Days Between"
• Howard Waldrop and Leigh Kennedy: "One-Horse Town"
• Eleanor Arnason: "Moby Quilt"
• Robert Reed: "Raven Dream"
• James Patrick Kelly: "Undone"
• Carolyn Ives Gilman: "The Real Thing"
• Maureen F. McHugh: "Interview: On Any Given Day"
• Ian R. MacLeod: "Isabel Of the Fall"
• Jim Grimsley: "Into Greenwood"
• Michael Blumlein: "Know How, Can Do"
• Simon Ings: "Russian Vine"
• Paul McAuley: "The Two Dicks"
• Brenda W. Clough: "May Be Some Time"
• Chris Beckett: "Marcher"
• Ken MacLeod: "The Human Front"