The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection

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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published in 1999. It is the 16th in The Year's Best Science Fiction series.

Contents

The book includes a 49-page summation by Dozois; 25 stories, all that first appeared in 1998, and each with a two-paragraph introduction by Dozois; and a seven-page referenced list of honorable mentions for the year. The stories are as follows.

• Greg Egan: "Oceanic"
• Geoffrey A. Landis: "Approaching Perimelasma"
• Cory Doctorow: "Craphound"
• Tanith Lee: "Jedella Ghost"
• Bruce Sterling: "Taklamakan"
• Ursula K. Le Guin: "The Island Of the Immortals"
• Paul J. McAuley: "Sea Change, With Monsters"
• Robert Charles Wilson: "Divided By Infinity"
• Howard Waldrop: "US"
• Ian McDonald: "The Days Of Solomon Gursky"
• Robert Reed: "The Cuckoo's Boys"
• William Browning Spencer: "The Halfway House At the Heart Of Darkness"
• Michael Swanwick: "The Very Pulse of the Machine"
• Ted Chiang: "Story Of Your Life"
• Liz Williams: "Voivodoi"
• Stephen Baxter: "Saddlepoint: Roughneck"
• Rob Chilson: "This Side Of Independence"
• Chris Lawson: "Unborn Again"
• Tony Daniel: "Grist"
• Gwyneth Jones: "La Cenerentola"
• William Barton: "Down In the Dark"
• Jim Grimsley: "Free In Asveroth"
• Cherry Wilder: "The Dancing Floor"
• Ian R. MacLeod: "The Summer Isles"