Science Fiction: The Best of 2004

Another of the iBooks shorter Year's Best SF series. As far as being good goes, there is no doubt the stories are good, with a 3.62 average, but as far as these sort of books goes, that is on the low end of the scale, but similar to the 2002 (a bit lower), that I have already read. Stross and Bacigalupi the standouts. SF Best of 2004 : The Best Christmas Ever - James Patrick Kelly SF Best of 2004 : The Voluntary State - Christopher Rowe SF Best of 2004 : The Lost Pilgrim - Gene Wolfe SF Best of 2004 : Memento Mori - Joe Haldeman SF Best of 2004 : Periandry's Quest - Stephen Baxter SF Best of 2004 : Three Days in a Border Town - Jeff Vandermeer SF Best of 2004 : Elector - Charles Stross SF Best of 2004 : Opal Ball - Robert Reed SF Best of 2004 : My Mother Dancing - Nancy Kress SF Best of 2004 : The People of Sand and Slag - Paolo Bacigalupi SF Best of 2004 : Tourists - M. John Harrison SF Best of 2004 : All of Us Can Almost - Carol Emshwiller SF Best of 2004 : The Tang Dynasty Underwater Pyramid - Walter Jon Williams Santa, a really nice modern handgun and some topline ammo, please. 2.5 out of 5 Southern Somatype. 3 out of 5 Time's myth labours sealed. 4 out of 5 Immortality repair. 3.5 out of 5 Topographic time variation intelligence suppression subservience. 3.5 out of 5 Phantom City familiar feel. 4 out of 5 Manfred and Amber deal with resurrection, resimulation, and the ever changing and rapidly evolving galactic situation. 4.5 out of 5 Expert gambling life. 4 out of 5 Only human. 3.5 out of 5 Immortal ruined future's lack of taste for pets. 4.5 out of 5 Tedious bar life. 3 out of 5 Unlearning to fly. 3 out of 5 Diatom outbreak scuttling solution. 4 out of 5