The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published in 1999. It is the 15th in The Year's Best Science Fiction series.

Contents
The book includes a 49-page summation by Dozois; 28 stories, all that first appeared in 1997, and each with a two-paragraph introduction by Dozois; and a seven-page referenced list of honorable mentions for the year. The stories are as follows.


 * Robert Silverberg: "Beauty in the Night"
 * Paul J. McAuley: "Second Skin"
 * Nancy Kress: "Steamship Soldier on the Information Front"
 * Greg Egan: "Reasons to Be Cheerful"
 * Stephen Baxter: "Moon Six"
 * Bill Johnson: "We Will Drink a Fish Together..."
 * Peter F. Hamilton: "Escape Route"
 * James Patrick Kelly: "Itsy Bitsy Spider"
 * Alastair Reynolds: "A Spy in Europa"
 * William Sanders: "The Undiscovered"
 * Alan Brennert: "Echoes"
 * David Marusek: "Getting to Know You"
 * Gwyneth Jones: "Balinese Dancer"
 * Robert Reed: "Marrow"
 * Howard Waldrop: "Heart of Whitenesse"
 * Michael Swanwick: "The Wisdom of Old Earth"
 * Brian Stableford: "The Pipes of Pan"
 * G. David Nordley: "Crossing Chao Meng Fu"
 * Greg Egan: "Yeyuka"
 * Carolyn Ives Gilman: "Frost Painting"
 * Walter Jon Williams: "Lethe"
 * Geoffrey A. Landis: "Winter Fire"
 * Ian R. MacLeod: "Nevermore"
 * Simon Ings: "Open Veins"
 * Ian McDonald: "After Kerry"
 * Sean Williams and Simon Brown: "The Masque of Agamemnon"
 * John Kessel: "Gulliver at Home"
 * Gregory Benford and Elisabeth Malartre: "A Cold Dry Cradle"