An anthology that has stepped up a little with the times. Not tied to product costs of print, the book indulges in both more stories and longer works... According to Google Play Books reader, almost 1000 pages! A wide range of stories, and authors too ( )

Dozois continues to amaze with his ability to gather together diverse and interesting short science fiction from the year. ( )

For the past 35 years, I have looked forward to July because of the publication of this enormous tome, in my opinion the very best source for science fiction stories and novellas that were published in the previous year. Each year the stories come from more and more unfamiliar sources, too, with the advent of many e-magazines that I don’t get, which means that I find new authors every time. As with any anthology, each reader will like different stories, but this year I found stories from Michael Stanwick, Nancy Kress, Kelly Jennings, Ian McHugh, Finbarr O’Reilly and Maureen F. McHugh especially good. As ever, editor Dozois also provides information about the science fiction publishing world, which is interesting and informative. With all this goodness in a single volume, I am very sad to have to report that just before publication of this collection, Mr. Dozois suddenly died, according to Wikipedia of an opportunistic infection while in hospital. So there will be no Thirty-Sixth Annual Collection, and that is a very sad thing indeed. ( )