For over twenty years THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION has been recognized as the best collection of short science fiction writing in the universe and an essential resource for every science fiction fan. Now, with hundreds of stories and dozens of authors who have gone on to become some of the most esteemed practitioners of the form, Hugo Award-winning editor Gardner Dozois looks back on two decades of stories to bring readers the ultimate science fiction anthology. With such notable authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Michael Swanwick, Bruce Sterling, Connie Willis, Nancy Kress, William Gibson, Greg Bear, Joe Haldeman, Gene Wolfe, Robert Silverberg, Stephen Baxter and many more, BEST OF THE BEST will be the most significant science fiction short story anthology published in years.