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

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published in 2001. It is the 18th in The Year's Best Science Fiction series and won a 2002 Locus Award for best anthology.

## Contents

The book includes a 39-page summation of the year by Dozois, 23 stories that first appeared in 2000 (each with a two-paragraph introduction by the editor), and a seven-page referenced list of honorable mentions for the year.

The stories are as follows:

* John Kessel: "The Juniper Tree"
* Charles Stross: "Antibodies" (also collected in Toast: And Other Rusted Futures)
* Ursula K. Le Guin: "The Birthday Of the World" (also collected in The Birthday of the World and Other Stories)
* Nancy Kress: "Savior"
* Paul J. McAuley: "Reef"
* Susan Palwick: "Going After Bobo"
* Albert E. Cowdrey: "Crux"
* Severna Park: "The Cure For Everything"
* Peter F. Hamilton: "The Suspect Genome"
* Michael Swanwick: "The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-o"
* Lucius Shepard: "The Radiant Green Star"
* Alastair Reynolds: "Great Wall of Mars"
* Eliot Fintushel: "Milo and Sylvie"
* Brian Stableford: "Snowball In Hell"
* Stephen Baxter: "On the Orion Line"
* Greg Egan: "Oracle"
* Rick Cook and Ernest Hogan: "Obsidian Harvest"
* Tananarive Due: "Patient Zero"
* Charles Stross: "A Colder War"
* Steven Utley: "The Real World"
* M. Shayne Bell: "The Thing About Benny"
* Robert Charles Wilson: "The Great Goodbye"
* Ian McDonald: "Tendeléo's Story"
