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A 2020 Locus Award Finalist for Best Anthology

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For the first time in a decade, a compilation of the very best in science fiction, from a world authority on the genre.

For decades, The Year's Best Science Fiction has been the most widely read short science fiction anthology of its kind. Now, after 35 annual collections comes the ultimate in science fiction anthologies. In The Very Best of the Best, legendary editor Gardner Dozois selects the finest short stories for this landmark collection, including short fiction from authors such as Charles Stross, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Greg Egan, Stephen Baxter, Pat Cadigan, and any many more.

Reviewer: Mark S
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good stories
Review: These are some of the best short sci-fi stories I've read on a few years. I will search out other volumes.

Reviewer: RoyBlaze
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Title misleading!
Review: I expected what the title states, 35 years of the very best and got 15 years of the best instead. The title to be blunt is a BIG LIE! Very disappointing.

Reviewer: Dave
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Even better than expected
Review: Book was delivered a few days before the expected time and in basically new condition. Thanks!

Reviewer: Cheri
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Misleading title/Too Bulky
Review: The book is heavy enough to be a doorstop. It will be uncomfortable to hold and read. Additionally, the title is misleading. The stories only go back 15 years. I thought I would get an overview of the development if the genre, going back 35 years. No such luck. Very disappointing.

Reviewer: Bob
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Sci FI
Review: A lot of Science Fiction, science fantasy, and Alternate History! Good reads, but for it to really be the best, they missed new Authors such as Charles Freedom Long, then it would ahve been the best of the best!

Reviewer: J. E. Pearson
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Dozois' 3rd Anthology of Anthologies
Review: Add "The Very Best of the Best" to his two retrospective anthologies published in 2005 and 2007. "The Best of the Best" was published in 2005. That volume contains short stories from the first 20 years (1984 on). "The Best of the Best, Volume 2" was published in 2007. That volume contains longer works from the same earlier period. The three volumes, when taken together, provide a small taste of the 35 years' of Dozois incomparable annual anthologies. Very highly recommended.

Reviewer: Brian Tillotson
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Very well written. Mostly depressing.
Review: Here are 38 stories picked by Gardner Dozois from his 35-year run as god-editor of science fiction. Every one is masterfully crafted--if you're a writer, study these stories to refine and expand your skills. However, I found reading more than two in a day was bad for me. Was Dozois a melancholy person? Don't know, but nearly every story is a downer, ending in either defeat or in a tiny scrap of success among general doom. If you're prone to depression, pace yourself with these.This is a great collection if you seek well-written stories with lesbian protagonists. Sexuality is rarely the center of these stories, but about half the main characters are women who happen to love other women.

Reviewer: Jonathan
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Just like the title says.
Review: You can't go wrong with Gardner Dozois, and you won't go wrong with this book. One satisfying story after another.

Reviewer: Rob Stevenson
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: I knew I’d be in safe hands with Gardner Dozois, but I didn’t really expect the extraordinarily high quality of all these stories and writers. From the very first one, which I found so fresh and entertaining, to the last one, a horror story of a form I had never read before. A wonderful collection that I highly recommend to anyone who wants to see the best of the best of science fiction.

Reviewer: Perceptive Reader
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: This collection conveys an idea that Science Fiction has become synonymous with overwritten stuff solely driven by political agenda. The selection of padded pieces with endless dialogues and social commentaries made the process of reading a real drag. There was no humour and hardly anything happened in the stories. Even the few readable pieces were maudlin.However, almost all of these works sought to 'make a point' somehow. With so many pointy pieces without any real edge, this collection turns out to be a porcupine rather than an anthology.Editorial work was shabby. In place of 'Mongoose', 'Boojum' has been included.Overall, not recommended.

Reviewer: Andre Fabik
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: I have been reading these yearly anthologies since the beginning, despite often finding it hard to get my hands on them in the UK. This is a good mix of stories from across the years, only criticism is it probably could have been bigger, it's roughly about the same size as the yearly collections, and this is covering the best stories from 3 decades.

Reviewer: pen name
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: good selection of authors and strong short storiesno open ended tales or television plots or hero'sjust a good all round selection of science-fictionnovellas and short fictions enjoyable readingsfor a kindle anthology file yes this one is the real dealno pulp here every story is easy grasp and picturein the mind's eye 👁 this is worth it's price(not like some I've had which scrape the bottom ofpulp sy-fi barrel awful rubbish by amateur authors)

Reviewer: A.C.
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Most of the selection is good, there are a couple of duds in there though...