Year's Best SF 11

Published simultaneously with mass market paperback, this is the only hard cover edition. Thirty-one of the best short science fiction stories of 2005, including: New Hope for the Dead, by David Langford; Deus Ex Homine, by Hannu Rajaniemi; When the Great Days Came, by Gardner R. Dozois; Second Person, by Present Tense, by Daryl Gregory; Dreadnought, by Justina Robson; A Case of Consilience, by Ken MacLeod; Toy Planes, by Tobias S. Buckell; Mason's Rats, by Neal Asher; A Modest Proposal, by Vonda N. McIntyre; Guadalupe and Hieronymus Bosch, by Rudy Rucker (Nominated, 2005 British Science Fiction Award); The Forever Kitten, by Peter F. Hamilton; City of Reason, by Matthew Jarpe; Ivory Tower, by Bruce Sterling; Sheila, by Lauren McLaughlin; Rats of the System, by Paul McAuley; I Love Liver: A Romance, by Larissa Lai; The Edge of Nowhere, by James Patrick Kelly; What's Expected of Us, by Ted Chiang; Girls and Boys Come Out to Play, by Michael Swanwick; Lakes of Light, by Stephen Baxter; The Albian Message, by Oliver Morton; Bright Red Star, by Bud Sparhawk; Third Day Lights, by Alaya Dawn Johnson; RAM Shift Phase 2, by Greg Bear; On the Brane, by Gregory Benford; Oxygen Rising, by R. Garcia y Robertson; And Future King, by Adam Roberts; Beyond the Aquila Rift, by Alastair Reynolds; Angel of Light, by Joe Haldeman; Ikiryoh, by Liz Williams; and I Robot, by Cory Doctorow (nominated, 2005 British Science Fiction Award, 2006 Hugo Award).