The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection

Editor	Gardner Dozois
Cover artist	Michael Whelan
Language	English
Series	The Year's Best Science Fiction
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	St. Martin's Press
Publication date	July 23, 2013
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardcover & trade paperback)
Pages	xlii & 654 pp
ISBN	9781250028051
OCLC	838196524
Preceded by	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection
Followed by	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published on July 23, 2013. It is the 30th in The Year's Best Science Fiction series.

The book includes 29 stories, all first published in 2012. The book also includes a summation by Dozois, a brief introduction by Dozois to each story, and a referenced list of honorable mentions for the year. The stories are as follows:^[1]

• Indrapramit Das: "Weep for Day"
• Paul McAuley: "The Man"
• Jay Lake: "The Stars Do Not Lie"
• Lavie Tidhar: "The Memcordist"
• Pat Cadigan: "The Girl-thing Who Went Out for Sushi"
• Eleanor Arnason: "Holmes Sherlock"
• Richard A. Lovett and William Gleason: "Nightfall on the Peak of Eternal Light"
• Andy Duncan: "Close Encounters"
• Lee Mandelo: "The Finite Canvas"
• Sean McMullen: "Steamgothic"
• Elizabeth Bear: "In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns"
• Paul McAuley: "Macy Minnot's Last Christmas on Dione, Ring Racing, Fiddler's Green, the Potter's Garden"
• Michael Bishop: "Twenty Lights to 'The Land of Snow'"
• Carrie Vaughn: "Astrophilia"
• Adam Roberts: "What Did Tessimond Tell You?"
• Megan Lindholm: "Old Paint"
• David Moles: "Chitai Heiki Koronbin"
• Robert Reed: "Katabasis"
• Alastair Reynolds: "The Water Thief"
• Linda Nagata: "Nightside on Callisto"
• Lavie Tidhar: "Under the Eaves"
• Steven Popkes: "Sudden, Broken, and Unexpected"
• Robert Charles Wilson: "Fireborn"
• Vandana Singh: "Ruminations in an Alien Tongue"
• Hannu Rajaniemi: "Tyche and the Ants"
• Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear: "The Wreck of the 'Charles Dexter Ward'"
• Christopher Barzak: "Invisible Men"
• Aliette de Bodard: "Ship's Brother"
• Robert Reed: "Eater-of-Bone"

• 2013, United States, St. Martin's Press ISBN 978-1-250-02805-1, Pub date July 23, 2013, Hardcover ^[2]
• 2013, United States, St. Martin's Griffin ISBN 978-1-250-02913-3, Pub date July 23, 2013, Trade paperback ^[3]
• 2013, United States, St. Martin's Press ISBN 978-1-250-02804-4, Pub date July 23, 2013, e-book ^[4]

• The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Book review by Mark Watson, Best SF