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Year's Best SF 9 (Year's Best SF (Science Fiction)) (Mass Market Paperback)
by David G. Hartwell (Author)
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 512 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins (14 Sep 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 006057559X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060575595
  • Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.8 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
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This annual science fiction collection contains stories by many of the biggest names in science fiction. Many of the stories have only been published in magazines before.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Another year, more great stories, 9 Jul 2004
By David Roy (Vancouver, BC) - See all my reviews
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One of these days, Kage Baker is going to get me into trouble. Not personally, of course (having never had the honour of meeting the lady), but her stories. See, the problem is that I'm such a big fan of hers that I now have to track down every thing she has written and at least read it. I happened upon this year's edition of Year's Best SF, the ninth, and saw that she had a story in it. Of course, this meant I had to buy it. However, doing this leaves me at the mercy of the rest of the stories. I'm not a big fan of hard SF stories, and I prefer fantasy to science fiction in any case. Will I have paid a lot of money (especially with Canadian prices) for a book that I only like 20 pages out of 500? Would this be the time that she's cost me more money then I want to spend?

Thankfully, no. While I didn't care for every story in Year's Best SF 9, I did like them well enough to thoroughly recommend the book. At 500 pages, there's a lot of stories in here, varying from hard science fiction to near-future character-driven stories, and everything in between. While Baker's story, "A Night on the Barbary Coast," is among the best stories in the collection, I would have to say that the best is actually John Varley's "In Fading Suns and Dying Moons."

Baker's story is another in the continuing adventures of The Company, where a bunch of immortal cyborgs try to make money for the time-traveling Dr. Zeus Corporation by harvesting soon to be extinct species of plants and animals, as well as other rare items that will eventually disappear. In this story, Joseph needs the botanist Mendoza to help him identify a rare fungus related to a quartz deposit that the Company wants in California. Their personal relationship has always been rocky, ever since Joseph forced her to sit and watch her English lover be burned at the stake, rather than intervene, in the 1550s. The story