Science Fiction: The Year's Best (2006 Edition)

Horton''s elegiac anthology of 15 mostly hard SF stories illuminates a broad spectrum of grief over love thwarted through time, space, human frailty or alien intervention, from the gentle melancholy of Michael Swanwick''s "Triceratops Summer," which posits tame Technicolored time-warped dinosaurs in Vermont, to newcomer Leah Bobet''s "Bliss," an agonizing riff on near-future drug addiction. Severa...