The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection
# The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published in 1999. It is the 15th in The Year's Best Science Fiction series.

## Contents

The book includes a 49-page summation by Dozois; 28 stories, all that first appeared in 1997, 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.

* Robert Silverberg: "Beauty in the Night"
* Paul J. McAuley: "Second Skin"
* Nancy Kress: "Steamship Soldier on the Information Front"
* Greg Egan: "Reasons to Be Cheerful"
* Stephen Baxter: "Moon Six"
* Bill Johnson: "We Will Drink a Fish Together..."
* Peter F. Hamilton: "Escape Route"
* James Patrick Kelly: "Itsy Bitsy Spider"
* Alastair Reynolds: "A Spy in Europa"
* William Sanders: "The Undiscovered"
* Alan Brennert: "Echoes"
* David Marusek: "Getting to Know You"
* Gwyneth Jones: "Balinese Dancer"
* Robert Reed: "Marrow"
* Howard Waldrop: "Heart of Whitenesse"
* Michael Swanwick: "The Wisdom of Old Earth"
* Brian Stableford: "The Pipes of Pan"
* G. David Nordley: "Crossing Chao Meng Fu"
* Greg Egan: "Yeyuka"
* Carolyn Ives Gilman: "Frost Painting"
* Walter Jon Williams: "Lethe"
* Geoffrey A. Landis: "Winter Fire"
* Ian R. MacLeod: "Nevermore"
* Simon Ings: "Open Veins"
* Ian McDonald: "After Kerry"
* Sean Williams and Simon Brown: "The Masque of Agamemnon"
* John Kessel: "Gulliver at Home"
* Gregory Benford and Elisabeth Malartre: "A Cold Dry Cradle"
