The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published in 1999. It is the 16th in The Year's Best Science Fiction series.

Contents
The book includes a 49-page summation by Dozois; 25 stories, all that first appeared in 1998, 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.


 * Greg Egan: "Oceanic"
 * Geoffrey A. Landis: "Approaching Perimelasma"
 * Cory Doctorow: "Craphound"
 * Tanith Lee: "Jedella Ghost"
 * Bruce Sterling: "Taklamakan"
 * Ursula K. Le Guin: "The Island Of the Immortals"
 * Paul J. McAuley: "Sea Change, With Monsters"
 * Robert Charles Wilson: "Divided By Infinity"
 * Howard Waldrop: "US"
 * Ian McDonald: "The Days Of Solomon Gursky"
 * Robert Reed: "The Cuckoo's Boys"
 * William Browning Spencer: "The Halfway House At the Heart Of Darkness"
 * Michael Swanwick: "The Very Pulse of the Machine"
 * Ted Chiang: "Story Of Your Life"
 * Liz Williams: "Voivodoi"
 * Stephen Baxter: "Saddlepoint: Roughneck"
 * Rob Chilson: "This Side Of Independence"
 * Chris Lawson: "Unborn Again"
 * Tony Daniel: "Grist"
 * Gwyneth Jones: "La Cenerentola"
 * William Barton: "Down In the Dark"
 * Jim Grimsley: "Free In Asveroth"
 * Cherry Wilder: "The Dancing Floor"
 * Ian R. MacLeod: "The Summer Isles"