The annual collections “The Year's Best”, published in the USA for more than fifteen years, publish stories, short stories, essays selected from around the world, and to be among their authors is no less prestigious than winning the World Fantasy Award or the Nebula. .Giant spaceships, silently swallowing parsec after parsec in the endless night, robots that look like clumsy armored crabs, intricate labyrinths of “cyberspace,” strange mechanisms that give people power over Time itself. According to Western tradition, all this is called “Science Fiction”, science fiction. The best examples of this trend are collected on the pages of Gardner Dozois's annual anthology. The most successful stories by leading authors working in the genre of cyberpunk, dystopia, space action - Harry Turtledove, Michael Swanwick, John Varley, Vernor Vinge and many others. For the first time, the famous anthology is published in Russian. Twenty-nine brilliant examples of short prose are placed under one cover in order to acquaint the reader with the most striking new products of the genre. The best of the year: Science fiction, space action, cyberpunk: An anthology of modern foreign prose / Ed. G. Dozois; Per. from English K. Vasilyeva, A. Guzman, V. Dvinina and others - St. Petersburg: ABC-classics, 2005. - 928 pp., 5000 copies. ISBN 5-352-01543-2