Year's Best SF 4

David G. Hartwell

Harper Collins, May 5, 1999 - Fiction - 496 pages

Travel to the Farthest Reaches of the Imagination

Acclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell is back with his fourth annual high-powered collection of the year's most inventive, entertaining, and awe-inspiring science fiction. In short, the best.

Here are stories from today's top name authors, plus exciting newcomers, all eager to land you on exotic planets, introduce you to strange new life forms, and show you scenes more amazing than anything you've imagined.

So sit back and blast off for an amazing trip with
Stephen Baxter
Gregory Benford
David Brin
Nancy Kress
Bruce Sterling
Michael Swanwick
and many more...

About the author

David G. Hartwell is a senior editor of Tor/Forge Books. His doctorate is in Comparative Medieval Literature. He is the proprietor of Dragon Press, publisher and bookseller, which publishes The New York Review of Science Fiction, and the president of David G. Hartwell, Inc. He is the author of Age of Wonders and the editor of many anthologies, including The Dark Descent, The World Treasury of Science Fiction, The Hard SF Renaissance, The Space Opera Renaissance, and a number of Christmas anthologies, among others. Recently he co-edited his fifteenth annual paperback volume of Year's Best SF, and co-edited the ninth Year's Best Fantasy. John Updike, reviewing The World Treasury of Science Fiction in The New Yorker, characterized him as a "loving expert." He is on the board of the IAFA, is co-chairman of the board of the World Fantasy Convention, and an administrator of the Philip K. Dick Award. He has won the Eaton Award, the World Fantasy Award, and has been nominated for the Hugo Award forty times to date, winning as Best Editor in 2006, 2008, and 2009.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Year's Best SF 4; Volume 4 of Year's Best SF; Volume 4 of Year's Best Science Fiction Series
• Editor: David G. Hartwell
• Publisher: Harper Collins, 1999
• ISBN: 0061059021, 9780061059025
• Length: 496 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Anthologies (multiple authors); Fiction / Fantasy / Epic; Fiction / Science Fiction / Alien Contact; Fiction / Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies; Fiction / Science Fiction / General; Fiction / Short Stories (single author)