Nato a Brownsville, Texas, il 14 aprile 1954, Bruce Sterling è una figura di spicco nei mondi della letteratura e del giornalismo. È noto soprattutto per i suoi dieci romanzi di fantascienza, ma la sua scrittura si estende alle storie brevi, alle recensioni di libri, alla critica del design, alle colonne di opinione e alle introduzioni per vari libri. La scrittura di Sterling ha influenzato la forma della fantascienza e del pensiero futuristico, con i suoi lavori non fiction come "The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier" (1992), "Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years" (2003), e "Shaping Things" (2005) che forniscono commenti intelligenti sulla tecnologia e la società.
La carriera di Sterling include ruoli come giornalista, critico e editor contribuente per Wired magazine, una posizione che ha mantenuto dal suo inizio nel 1999. La sua scrittura è apparsa in numerose pubblicazioni, tra cui ABC's Nightline, BBC's The Late Show, CBC's Morningside, su MTV e TechTV, e in Time, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, il New York Times, Fortune, Nature, I.D., Metropolis, Technology Review, Der Spiegel, La Stampa, e La Repubblica. Ha anche detenuto prestigiose posizioni come "Visionario in Residenza" al Art Center College of Design di Pasadena e al Sandberg Instituut di Amsterdam, e Curatore Ospite per la Share Festival of Digital Art and Culture di Torino, in Italia. I suoi contributi alle mondi della fantascienza e del giornalismo sono stati significativi e di ampia portata.
Mechanist Shapers Books
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Schismatrix
1985
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Crystal Express
1989
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Schismatrix Plus
1995
Romanzi singoli
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The Artificial Kid
1980
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Islands in the Net
1988
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The Difference Engine (With: William Gibson)
1990
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The Difference Engine
1990
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Heavy Weather
1994
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Holy Fire
1996
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Distraction
1998
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Zeitgeist
2000
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The Zenith Angle
2004
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The Caryatids
2009
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Love is Strange
2012
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Pirate Utopia
2015
Racconti brevi/Novelle
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Dinner in Audoghast (in Asimov's)
1985
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Flowers of Edo (in Asimov's)
1987
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Our Neural Chernobyl (in F&SF)
1988
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Dori Bangs (in Asimov's)
1989
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Deep Eddy (in Asimov's)
1993
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Bicycle Repairman (in A Good Old-Fashioned Future)
1996
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Maneki Neko (in A Good Old-Fashioned Future)
1998
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Taklamakan (in A Good Old-Fashioned Future)
1998
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The Parthenopean Scalpel
2010
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Black Swan
2010
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Good Night, Moon (With: Rudy Rucker)
2011
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Good Night, Moon
2011
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Loco
2012
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Loco (With: Rudy Rucker)
2012
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Totem Poles (With: Rudy Rucker)
2016
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Totem Poles
2016
Collezioni
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Globalhead
1992
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A Good Old-Fashioned Future
1999
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Visionary in Residence
2005
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Ascendancies: The Best of Bruce Sterling
2007
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Gothic High-Tech
2011
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Robot Artists and Black Swans: The Italian Fantascienza Stories (With: John Coulthart, Dario Tonani, Bruno Argento)
2021
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Robot Artists and Black Swans: The Italian Fantascienza Stories
2021
The Harlan Ellison Discovery Books
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Autumn Angels (By: Arthur Byron Cover)
1975
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Autumn Angels
1975
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The Light at the End of the Universe
1976
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The Light at the End of the Universe (By: Terry Carr)
1976
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Involution Ocean
1977
Libri di non-fiction
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The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier
1992
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Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years
2002
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The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things
2014
Year's Best SF Anthology Books
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Year's Best SF
1996
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Year's Best SF 2
1997
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Year's Best SF 3
1998
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Year's Best SF 4
1999
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Year's Best SF 5
2000
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Year's Best SF 6
2001
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Year's Best SF 7
2002
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Year's Best SF 8
2003
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Year's Best SF 9
2004
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Year's Best SF 10
2005
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Year's Best SF 11
2006
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Year's Best SF 12
2007
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Year's Best SF 13
2008
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Year's Best SF 14
2009
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Year's Best SF 15
2010
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Year's Best SF 16
2011
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Year's Best SF 17
2012
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Year's Best SF 18
2013
Universe Books
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Universe 1 (By: Terry Carr)
1971
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Universe 2 (By: Terry Carr)
1972
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Universe 3 (By: Terry Carr)
1973
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Universe 4 (By: Terry Carr)
1974
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Universe 5 (By: Terry Carr)
1974
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Universe 6 (By: John Shirley, Terry Carr)
1976
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Universe 7 (By: Terry Carr)
1977
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Universe 8 (By: Terry Carr)
1978
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Universe 9 (By: John Shirley, Terry Carr)
1979
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Universe 10 (By: Terry Carr)
1980
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Universe 11 (By: Kim Stanley Robinson, William Gibson, Michael Swanwick, Carter Scholz, Michael Bishop, Ian Watson, Nancy Kress, Carol Emshwiller, Josephine Saxton, Terry Carr)
1981
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Universe 12 (By: Terry Carr)
1982
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Universe 13 (With: Kim Stanley Robinson, Lucius Shepard, Michael Bishop, Ian Watson, Terry Carr, Leanne Frahm, Bill Bickel)
1983
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Universe 14 (By: Terry Carr)
1984
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Universe 15 (By: Terry Carr)
1985
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Universe 16 (By: Terry Carr)
1986
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Universe 17 (By: Terry Carr)
1987
Best Science Fiction of the Year Books
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year 1
1972
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year 2
1973
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year 3
1974
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year 4
1975
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year 5
1976
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year 6
1977
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year 7
1978
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year 8
1979
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year 9
1980
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year 10
1981
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year 11
1982
12
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12
1983
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Best Science Fiction of the Year 13
1984
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Best Science Fiction of the Year 14
1984
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Best Science Fiction of the Year 15
1986
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Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year 16
1987
Bruce Sterling Anthologies
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year 1
1972
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year 2
1973
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year 3
1974
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year 4
1975
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Universe 6
1976
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Lone Star Universe
1976
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year 5
1976
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year 6
1977
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year 7
1978
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Universe 9
1979
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year 9
1980
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year 10
1981
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Universe 11
1981
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year 11
1982
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12
1983
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Universe 13
1983
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Nebula Awards 18
1983
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Best Science Fiction of the Year 13
1984
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Best Science Fiction of the Year 14
1984
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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection
1985
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The Third Omni Book of Science Fiction
1985
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Best Science Fiction of the Year 15
1986
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The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 12
1986
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Mirrorshades
1986
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Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1987
1987
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The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1988
1988
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The Seventh Omni Book of Science Fiction
1989
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Third Annual Collection
1989
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Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September 1989
1989
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The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 14
1989
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Drabble II: Double Century
1990
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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection
1990
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Semiotext SF
1991
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Storming the Reality Studio
1991
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The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories
1992
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The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1992
1992
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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection
1993
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Under African Skies
1993
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The Year\'s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection
2003
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The Ascent of Wonder
1994
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Asimov's Science Fiction, November 1994
1994
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Cthulhu 2000
1995
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Paragons
1996
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Nineteenth Annual Collection
2006
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Year's Best SF
1996
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Hackers
1996
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The Science Fiction Century
1997
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Modern Classics of Fantasy
1997
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Year's Best SF 2
1997
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Year's Best SF 3
1998
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Lightspeed Magazine, April 2011
1998
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The Good New Stuff
1999
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Year's Best SF 4
1999
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The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology
1999
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Year's Best SF 5
2000
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Genometry
2001
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Year's Best SF 6
2001
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The Ultimate Cyberpunk
2002
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Supermen
2002
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Year's Best SF 7
2002
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Year's Best SF 8
2003
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The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 16
2003
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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection
2003
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Custer's Last Jump and Other Collaborations
2003
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The Hard SF Renaissance
2003
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Year's Best SF 9
2004
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Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse
2005
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The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels
2005
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Year's Best SF 10
2005
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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection
2006
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Year's Best SF 11
2006
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Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection