Year's Best SF Anthology Books in Order

59
Books
1996
First Book
2025
Latest Book
30
Years

Below you'll find the complete list of Year's Best SF Anthology books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.

Reading order verified: January 2026

Publication Order

1

Year's Best SF

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1996

2

Year's Best SF 2

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1997

3

Year's Best SF 3

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1998

4

Year's Best SF 4

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1999

5

Year's Best SF 5

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2000

6

Year's Best SF 6

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2001

7

Year's Best SF 7

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2002

8

Year's Best SF 8

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2003

9

Year's Best SF 9

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2004

10

Year's Best SF 10

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2005

11

Year's Best SF 11

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2006

12

Year's Best SF 12

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2007

13

Year's Best SF 13

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2008

14

Year's Best SF 14

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2009

15

Year's Best SF 15

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2010

16

Year's Best SF 16

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2011

17

Year's Best SF 17

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2012

18

Year's Best SF 18

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2013

19

Dreamworks: Strange New Stories

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1983

20

Strange Attractors: Original Australian Speculative Fiction

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1985

21

Second Annual Collection

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1989

22

The Year's Best Fantasy 2 / Demons and Dreams

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1990

23

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection

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1993

24

Alien Shores

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1994

25

The Year's Best Science Fiction, Thirteenth Annual Collection

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1996

26

Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 1999

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1999

27

Explorers

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2000

28

Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 2000

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2000

29

2002

30

The Mammoth Book Of Science Fiction

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2002

31

The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 16

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2003

32

The Hard SF Renaissance

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2003

33

One Million A.D.

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2005

34

The Best Australian Science Fiction

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2005

35

The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels

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2005

36

Galileo's Children

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2005

37

The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction

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2006

38

The Best of the Best, Vol 2

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2007

39

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection

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2007

40

2007

41

Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition

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2008

42

The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 21

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2008

43

Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, Volume 4

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2008

44

The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 22

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2008

45

The Time Traveler's Almanac

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2013

46

Coming Soon Enough Six Tales of Technology's Future

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2014

47

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Nine

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2014

48

The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 6

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2014

49

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection

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2014

50

2014

51

Galactic Empires

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2017

52

The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume Three

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2017

53

The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 3

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2019

54

The Long List Anthology Volume 5

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2019

55

The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 4

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2020

56

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Five

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2020

57

The 2020 Look at Space Opera Book

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2020

58

Tomorrow's Parties: Life in the Anthropocene

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2022

59

Clarkesworld Issue 229

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2025

Frequently Asked Questions

The recommended reading order for the Year's Best SF Anthology series is publication order: 1. Year's Best SF (1996), 2. Year's Best SF 2 (1997), 3. Year's Best SF 3 (1998), 4. Year's Best SF 4 (1999), 5. Year's Best SF 5 (2000), and 54 more. This is generally the best way to experience the story as the author intended.

The Year's Best SF Anthology series by Greg Egan contains 59 books. The series began in 1996 and continues to be a popular choice for readers.

The Year's Best SF Anthology series is written by Greg Egan. You can find more books and series by this author on our website.

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