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Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology

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Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology
First edition
AuthorEdited by Sheila Williams
Cover artistMichael Whelan
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction anthology
PublisherTachyon Publications
Publication date
2007
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages349 pp
ISBN978-1-892391-47-6
OCLC145499823

Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology (2007) is a science fiction anthology edited by Sheila Williams, the editor of Asimov's Science Fiction, of short stories that were all originally published in Asimov's. The book includes a five-page introduction by Williams, in which she briefly reviews the history of the magazine and clarifies that the book is merely a sampling from the magazine's history, not an attempt at a "best of", because that would have to run to many volumes. The book includes seventeen short stories, and a nine-page set of brief author biographies at the end.

The stories are as follows, with dates of original publication in Asimov's:

Author Short story Year of original publication in Asimov's Annotation
John Varley (under the pseudonym Herb Boehm) Air Raid 1977 1977 was the debut issue of Asimov's
Robert Silverberg The Time of the Burning 1982
Octavia E. Butler Speech Sounds 1983
Bruce Sterling Dinner in Audoghast 1985
Isaac Asimov Robot Dreams 1986
Kim Stanley Robinson Glacier 1988
Connie Willis Cibola 1990
Jonathan Lethem The Happy Man 1991
Mike Resnick Over There 1991
Ursula K. Le Guin Ether, OR 1995
Kelly Link Flying Lessons 1996 1996 was the debut publication by Link
James Patrick Kelly Itsy Bitsy Spider 1997
Michael Swanwick Ancient Engines 1999
Charles Stross Lobsters 2001
Lucius Shepard Only Partly Here 2003
Stephen Baxter The Children of Time 2005
Robert Reed Eight Episodes 2006