Reddit reviews The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection (Year's Best Science Fiction (30))

OK this list is all different types of authors and stories, maybe you will find something you like:

Reach for Infinity

Peter Watts, Beyond The Rift

James Alan Gardner, Gravity Wells

Greg Egan, Axiomatic

Cory Doctorow, A Place So Foreign

Michael Swanwick, Tales of Old Earth

John Varley, Persistence of Vision

Edward Bryant, Particle Theory. Stories from 70's & 80's, but solid.

The Best of Interzone. Stories from the British SF magazine.

Dozois has the Annual Best. The stories are all over the board for subjects, with alot of well known current authors, and some relatively unknowns. This is kind of a big clunky oversized book - not great if you want a small paperback to carry around, or read in an airport.

Hartwell's annual SF. This is a small paperback size - usually some crossover with stories also in the Dozois collection.

Good luck.

I'd suggest finding a short story collection, such as the Gardner Dozois annual years' best, or one of the Hugo winners collections.

Dozois's Year's Best Sience Fiction is a good compilation of short fictions. This year's was especially great. I like my science fiction idea-based, exploring concepts and hypotheticals, and I thing the short-story format really lends itself to that.
Rudy Rucker keeps publishing great novels.
By other authors, Nod and 2312 were both very worth my time. Intrusion was excellent, The Dog Stars was excellent, there is just a lot of good books published if you look around for them.

It came out last month, but I just saw it and scooped it:

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection - Dozois

I get really excited when this anthology comes out.

Any of the Gardner Dozois 'Year's Best ..." Couldn't recommend a better compilation of SciFi shorts.

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