The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection

ix • Summation: 1996 • essay by Gardner Dozois 1 • Immersion • (1996) • novella by Gregory Benford 47 • The Dead • (1996) • short story by Michael Swanwick 56 • The Flowers of Aulit Prison • [Probability Universe] • (1996) • novelette by Nancy Kress 82 • A Dry, Quiet War • (1996) • novelette by Tony Daniel 99 • Thirteen Phantasms • (1996) • short story by James P. Blaylock 109 • Primrose and Thorn • [Primrose / Distant Seas] • (1996) • novella by Bud Sparhawk 142 • The Miracle of Ivar Avenue • [Moment Universes] • (1996) • novelette by John Kessel 167 • The Last Homosexual • (1996) • short story by Paul Park 178 • Recording Angel • (1996) • short story by Ian McDonald 188 • Death Do Us Part • (1996) • short story by Robert Silverberg 203 • The Spade of Reason • (1996) • short story by James R. Cowan [as by Jim Cowan] 218 • The Cost to Be Wise • (1996) • novella by Maureen F. McHugh 254 • Bicycle Repairman • [Chattanooga] • (1996) • novelette by Bruce Sterling 279 • The Weighing of Ayre • (1996) • novelette by Gregory Feeley 311 • The Longer Voyage • (1996) • novelette by Michael Cassutt 330 • The Land of Nod • [Kirinyaga • 10] • (1996) • novelette by Mike Resnick 350 • Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland • (1996) • short story by Gwyneth Jones 362 • The Lady Vanishes • (1996) • short story by Charles Sheffield 373 • Chrysalis • (1996) • novelette by Robert Reed 407 • The Wind Over the World • [Silurian Tales] • (1996) • novelette by Steven Utley 430 • Changes • (1996) • short story by William Barton 445 • Counting Cats in Zanzibar • (1996) • short story by Gene Wolfe 457 • How We Got in Town and Out Again • (1996) • novelette by Jonathan Lethem 475 • Dr. Tilmann's Consultant: A Scientific Romance • (1996) • novelette by Cherry Wilder 492 • Schrödinger's Dog • (1996) • novelette by Damien Broderick 518 • Foreign Devils • [War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches] • (1996) • novelette by Walter Jon Williams 535 • In the MSOB • (1996) • short story by Stephen Baxter 539 • The Robot's Twilight Companion • (1996) • novella by Tony Daniel 590 • Honorable Mentions: 1996 • essay by Gardner Dozois