The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published in 2001. It is the 18th in The Year's Best Science Fiction series and won a 2002 Locus Award for best anthology.

Contents
The book includes a 39-page summation of the year by Dozois, 23 stories that first appeared in 2000 (each with a two-paragraph introduction by the editor), and a seven-page referenced list of honorable mentions for the year.

The stories are as follows:


 * John Kessel: "The Juniper Tree"
 * Charles Stross: "Antibodies" (also collected in Toast: And Other Rusted Futures)
 * Ursula K. Le Guin: "The Birthday Of the World" (also collected in The Birthday of the World and Other Stories)
 * Nancy Kress: "Savior"
 * Paul J. McAuley: "Reef"
 * Susan Palwick: "Going After Bobo"
 * Albert E. Cowdrey: "Crux"
 * Severna Park: "The Cure For Everything"
 * Peter F. Hamilton: "The Suspect Genome"
 * Michael Swanwick: "The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-o"
 * Lucius Shepard: "The Radiant Green Star"
 * Alastair Reynolds: "Great Wall of Mars"
 * Eliot Fintushel: "Milo and Sylvie"
 * Brian Stableford: "Snowball In Hell"
 * Stephen Baxter: "On the Orion Line"
 * Greg Egan: "Oracle"
 * Rick Cook and Ernest Hogan: "Obsidian Harvest"
 * Tananarive Due: "Patient Zero"
 * Charles Stross: "A Colder War"
 * Steven Utley: "The Real World"
 * M. Shayne Bell: "The Thing About Benny"
 * Robert Charles Wilson: "The Great Goodbye"
 * Ian McDonald: "Tendeléo's Story"