UK edition.
Robert Silverberg. Sailing to Byzantium.
Also in Dozois #3 where I noted : ‘Advanced civilization recreates great cities from history, with short-timers and virtually immortal constructs.’
Howard Waldrop. Flying Saucer Rock & Roll.
Also in Dozois #3 where I noted : ‘Doo-wop showaddywaddy’. (Well, that’s not particularly helpful! Interesting note (or not) UK band Showaddywaddy were the first band I saw live, back in 1974ish in Hartlepool)
Harry Turtledove. Bluff.
Lucius Shepard. A Spanish Lesson.
Also in Dozois #3 where I noted : ‘A beatnik on the Med comes across a very, very strange brace of clones. They are attempting to escape from a bizarre alternate world dominated by the undead Hitler.’
John Crowley. Snow.
Also in Dozois #3 there I noted : ‘Sensitive story about memory and death. The rich are able to have their lives recorded, and playback of the video at mausoleums enable those left behind to re-live the past.’
David Zindell. Shanidar.
Connie Willis. All My Darling Daughters.
Gregory Benford. Of Space/Time and the River.
Michael Bishop. A Gift from the GrayLanders.
Karen Joy Fowler. Praxis.
Ian Watson. The People on the Precipice.
James Tiptree Jr. The Only Neat Thing To Do.
My short aide-memoire summary in Dozois #3 : Young Croati starts the story as a spoilt brat who uses her parent’s money to give her spaceship a deep space capacity. On her travels she comes across a microscopic alien with which she becomes intimately acquainted, and with whom her very future is predicated