The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection

xi • Summation: 1999 • essay by Gardner Dozois 1 • The Wedding Album • [Cathy] • (1999) • novella by David Marusek 41 • 10 to 16 to 1 • (1999) • novelette by James Patrick Kelly (variant of 10¹⁶ to 1?) 59 • Winemaster • (1999) • novelette by Robert Reed 78 • Galactic North • [Revelation Space] • (1999) • novelette by Alastair Reynolds 106 • Dapple: A Hwarhath Historical Romance • [Hwarhath] • (1999) • novella by Eleanor Arnason 139 • People Came from Earth • (1999) • short story by Stephen Baxter 149 • Green Tea • (1999) • novelette by Richard Wadholm 170 • The Dragon of Pripyat • [Gennady] • (1999) • novelette by Karl Schroeder 203 • Written in Blood • (1999) • short story by Chris Lawson 215 • Hatching the Phoenix • [Heechee] • (1999) • novella by Frederik Pohl 255 • Suicide Coast • (1999) • short story by M. John Harrison 270 • Hunting Mother • (1999) • short story by Sage Walker 285 • Mount Olympus • [The Grand Tour] • (1999) • novelette by Ben Bova 318 • Border Guards • (1999) • novelette by Greg Egan 337 • Scherzo with Tyrannosaur • (1999) • short story by Michael Swanwick 347 • A Hero of the Empire • [Roma Eterna] • (1999) • novelette by Robert Silverberg 371 • How We Lost the Moon, a True Story by Frank W. Allen • (1990) • short story by Paul J. McAuley 383 • Phallicide • (1999) • novelette by Charles Sheffield 411 • Daddy's World • (1999) • novelette by Walter Jon Williams 433 • A Martian Romance • [Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)] • (1999) • novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson 448 • The Sky-Green Blues • (1999) • novelette by Tanith Lee 472 • Exchange Rate • (1999) • novella by Hal Clement 518 • Everywhere • (1999) • short story by Geoff Ryman 526 • Hothouse Flowers • (1999) • short story by Mike Resnick 539 • Evermore • (1999) • novelette by Sean Williams (variant of Evermore, or, The Lies That Bind) 560 • Of Scorned Women and Causal Loops • (1999) • short story by Robert Grossbach 572 • Son Observe the Time • [The Company Short Fiction] • (1999) • novella by Kage Baker 619 • Honorable Mentions: 1999 • essay by Gardner Dozois