The Best Short Science Fiction Novels of the Year

"These are good times for the novella," says editor Jonathan Strahan. The Best Science Fiction Short Novels of the Year offers nine of these "marvels of compression"-a selection of the best novellas published in 2003. In "The Green Leopard Plague," Walter Jon Williams tells of a philosopher who develops a way to make human skin photosynthetic-ending starvation as a tool of oppression. But his breakthrough has unforeseen repercussions� John C. Wright describes life in a distant future after the sun has gone out and true humans are confined to a single giant pyramid in "Awake in the Night." William Barton sends an sf-loving teen "Off on a Starship"-an automated probe that carries him across space to a world where he's all alone, except for a robot that becomes increasingly� female. And in "Just Like the Ones We Used to Know," Connie Willis imagines the ultimate global warming effect: a freak snowstorm that effectively shuts down North America. From a distant future where both beer and rebellion brew in a tavern on Mars to an alternate WWII where the cutting-edge science is quantum biology� from a haunting story of a bizarre prison without guards or rules to a Bradbury-esque tale of small-town America, The Best Science Fiction Short Novels of the Year is a must-have collection for sf readers.


Genre: Science Fiction