An annual celebration of the finest short form science fiction of the past year, editors David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer’s “Year’s Best” science fiction anthologies are widely acclaimed and eagerly awaited—and “Year’s Best SF 15” lives up magnificently to its name! Featuring thrilling new tales by such speculative fiction luminaries as Stephen Baxter, Gene Wolfe, Nancy Kress, Geoff Ryman, Bruce Sterling, and a host of others, “Year’s Best SF 15” opens the door into a universe of wonders.

Who knows what awaits us tomorrow?

Much of the most innovative and exhilarating work performed in the boundary-less arena of SF is being done in the short form. This year′s magnificent harvest—gathered, as always, by acclaimed award-winning editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer—offers glimpses of worlds and tomorrows that would have been inconceivable just a few years ago. Brilliant, bold, unusual, and soaring flights into the hitherto unforeseen yet increasingly possible future, “Year′s Best SF 15” offers truly breathtaking stories by some of speculative fiction’s brightest lights, including: