Year's Best SF 2

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name = Year's Best SF 2
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author = Edited by David G. Hartwell
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cover_artist = Bob Eggleton
country = United States
language = English
series = Year's Best SF
genre = Science fiction anthology
publisher = HarperPrism
release_date = 1997
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media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = 441 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-06-105746-0
preceded_by = Year's Best SF
followed_by = Year's Best SF 3

"Year's Best SF 2" (ISBN 0-06-105746-0) is a science fiction anthology edited by David G. Hartwell that was published in 1997. It is the second in the Year's Best SF series.

Contents

The book itself, as well as each of the stories, has a shortintroduction by the editor.

*Dave Wolverton: "After a Lean Winter" (Originally in "F&SF", 1996)
*Terry Bisson: "In the Upper Room" (Originally in "Playboy", 1996)
* John Brunner: "Thinkertoy" (Originally in "The Williamson Effect", 1996)
*Gregory Benford: "Zoomers" (Originally in "Future Net", 1996)
*Sheila Finch: "Out of the Mouths" (Originally in "F&SF", 1996)
*James Patrick Kelly: "Breakaway, Backdown" (Originally in "Asimov's", 1996)
*Yves Meynard: "Tobacco Words" (Originally in "Tomorrow", 1995)
*Joanna Russ: "Invasion" (Originally in "Asimov's", 1996)
*Brian Stableford: "The House of Mourning" (Originally in "", 1996)
*Damon Knight: "Life Edit" (Originally in "Science Fiction Age", 1996)
* Robert Reed: "First Tuesday" (Originally in "F&SF", 1996)
*David Langford: "The Spear of the Sun" (Originally in "Interzone", 1996)
*Gene Wolfe: "Counting Cats in Zanzibar" (Originally in "Asimov's", 1996)
*Bruce Sterling: "Bicycle Repairman" (Originally in "", 1996)
* Gwyneth Jones: "Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland" (Originally in "Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex", 1996)
*Allen Steele: "Doblin's Lecture" (Originally in "Pirate Writings", 1996)
*Kathleen Ann Goonan: "The Bride of Elvis" (Originally in "Science Fiction Age", 1996)
*Kate Wilhelm: "Forget Luck" (Originally in "F&SF", 1996)
*Connie Willis: "Nonstop to Portales" (Originally in "The Williamson Effect", 1996)
*Stephen Baxter: "Columbiad" (Originally in "Science Fiction Age", 1996)