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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection,
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“Quicken,” by Damien Broderick. Copyright © 2013 by Damien Broderick. First published in Beyond the Doors of Death (Phoenix Pick/Arc Manor). Published by permission of the author.
ALSO BY GARDNER DOZOIS
ANTHOLOGIES
A DAY IN THE LIFE
ANOTHER WORLD
BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OF THE YEAR Vols. 6–10
THE BEST OF ISAAC ASIMOV’S SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE
TIME-TRAVELERS FROM ISAAC ASIMOV’S SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE
TRANSCENDENTAL TALES FROM ISAAC ASIMOV’S SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE
ISAAC ASIMOV’S ALIENS
ISAAC ASIMOV’S MARS
ISAAC ASIMOV’S SF LITE
ISAAC ASIMOV’S WAR
ROADS NOT TAKEN (with Stanley Schmidt)
THE YEAR’S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, Vols. 1–30
FUTURE EARTHS: UNDER AFRICAN SKIES (with Mike Resnick)
FUTURE EARTHS: UNDER SOUTH AMERICAN SKIES (with Mike Resnick)
RIPPER! (with Susan Casper)
MODERN CLASSIC SHORT NOVELS OF SCIENCE FICTION
MODERN CLASSICS OF FANTASY
KILLING ME SOFTLY
DYING FOR IT
THE GOOD OLD STUFF
THE GOOD NEW STUFF
EXPLORERS
THE FURTHEST HORIZON
WORLDMAKERS
SUPERMEN
COEDITED WITH SHEILA WILLIAMS
ISAAC ASIMOV’S PLANET EARTH
ISAAC ASIMOV’S ROBOTS
ISAAC ASIMOV’S VALENTINES
ISAAC ASIMOV’S SKIN DEEP
ISAAC ASIMOV’S GHOSTS
ISAAC ASIMOV’S VAMPIRES
ISAAC ASIMOV’S MOONS
ISAAC ASIMOV’S CHRISTMAS
ISAAC ASIMOV’S CAMELOT
ISAAC ASIMOV’S WEREWOLVES
ISAAC ASIMOV’S SOLAR SYSTEM
ISAAC ASIMOV’S DETECTIVES
ISAAC ASIMOV’S CYBERDREAMS
COEDITED WITH JACK DANN
ALIENS!
UNICORNS!
MAGICATS!
MAGICATS 2!
BESTIARY!
MERMAIDS!
SORCERERS!
DEMONS!
DOGTALES!
SEASERPENTS!
DINOSAURS!
LITTLE PEOPLE!
DRAGONS!
HORSES!
UNICORNS 2!
INVADERS!
ANGELS!
DINOSAURS II
HACKERS
TIMEGATES
CLONES
NANOTECH
IMMORTALS
FICTION
STRANGERS
THE VISIBLE MAN (COLLECTION)
NIGHTMARE BLUE (with George Alec Effinger)
SLOW DANCING THROUGH TIME (with Jack Dann, Michael Swanwick, Susan Casper and Jack C. Haldeman II)
THE PEACEMAKER
GEODESIC DREAMS (collection)
NONFICTION
THE FICTION OF JAMES TIPTREE, JR.
about the author
GARDNER DOZOIS has been working in the science fiction field for more than thirty years. For twenty years he was the editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction, during which time he received the Hugo Award for Best Editor fifteen times.
These short stories are works of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in these stories are either products of the authors’ imaginations or are used fictitiously.
THE YEAR’S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL COLLECTION. Copyright © 2014 by Gardner Dozois. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Cover illustration © Jim Burns
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection / edited by Gardner Dozois.
pages cm
ISBN 978-1-250-04620-8 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-250-04621-5 (trade paperback)
ISBN 978-1-4668-6529-7 (e-book)
1. Science fiction. I. Dozois, Gardner R., editor of compilation.
PN6071.S33Y43 2014
808.83'8762—dc23
2014008569
e-ISBN 9781466865297
First Edition: July 2014
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