The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection

xi • Summation: 1998 • essay by Gardner Dozois 1 • Oceanic • (1998) • novella by Greg Egan 37 • Approaching Perimelasma • (1998) • novelette by Geoffrey A. Landis 56 • Craphound • (1998) • short story by Cory Doctorow 72 • Jedella Ghost • (1998) • short story by Tanith Lee 87 • Taklamakan • [Chattanooga] • (1998) • novelette by Bruce Sterling 118 • The Island of the Immortals • (1998) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin 126 • Sea Change, with Monsters • [The Quiet War] • (1998) • novella by Paul J. McAuley 161 • Divided by Infinity • (1998) • novelette by Robert Charles Wilson 181 • US • (1998) • short story by Howard Waldrop 191 • The Days of Solomon Gursky • (1998) • novella by Ian McDonald 234 • The Cuckoo's Boys • (1998) • novella by Robert Reed 277 • The Halfway House at the Heart of Darkness • (1998) • short story by William Browning Spencer 289 • The Very Pulse of the Machine • (1998) • short story by Michael Swanwick 304 • Story of Your Life • (1998) • novella by Ted Chiang 339 • Voivodoi • (1998) • short story by Liz Williams 349 • Saddlepoint: Roughneck • [Saddle Point • 4] • (1998) • novella by Stephen Baxter 393 • This Side of Independence • (1998) • short story by Rob Chilson 404 • Unborn Again • (1998) • short story by Chris Lawson 416 • Grist • [Metaplanetary • 0] • (1998) • novella by Tony Daniel 462 • La Cenerentola • (1998) • short story by Gwyneth Jones 476 • Down in the Dark • (1998) • novelette by William Barton 510 • Free in Asveroth • (1998) • short story by Jim Grimsley 524 • The Dancing Floor • (1998) • novelette by Cherry Wilder 544 • The Summer Isles • (1998) • novella by Ian R. MacLeod 603 • Honorable Mentions: 1998 • essay by Gardner Dozois