The Year's Best Science Fiction is a 10-book series with 10 primary works first released in 1973 with contributions by Nancy Kress, Geoff Ryman, Michael Swanwick, Paul Melko, M. Shayne Bell, Vernor Vinge, Harry Turtledove, John C. Wright, James Van Pelt, Geoffrey A. Landis, Kage Baker, Robert Reed, William Shunn, Dominic Green, Paul Di Filippo, Terry Dowling, Nicholas A. DiChario, Terry Bisson, John Varley, Judith Moffett, Howard Waldrop, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, William Barton, John Kessel, Charles Stross, Steven Popkes, Walter Jon Williams, Paolo Bacigalupi, Jack Skillingstead, Robert Charles Wilson, Sarah Monette, Elizabeth Bear, Steven Gould, Albert E. Cowdrey, Nicola Griffith, Michael Poore, Vandana Singh, Ted Kosmatka, Damien Broderick, Adam Roberts, Karl Bunker, Paul Cornell, Chris Roberson, Ian Creasey, Ian McDonald, Maureen F. McHugh, John Barnes, Bruce Sterling, Paul McAuley, Alexander C. Irvine, Jay Lake, Peter Watts, Lavie Tidhar, Mary Rosenblum, Jo Walton, Rand B. Lee, Gardner Dozois, Carolyn Ives Gilman, Matthew Claxton, Gord Sellar, Kathe Koja, Carter Scholz, Gregory Benford, Ian McHugh, Aliette de Bodard, Craig DeLancey, Sam J. Miller, Shariann Lewitt, David Gerrold, Steven Barnes, Alastair Reynolds, Pat Murphy, Paul Doherty, Nina Allan, Derek Kûsken, Samantha Henderson, Stephen Baxter, Ian R. MacLeod, Bill Johnson, James Patrick Kelly, Eleanor Arnason, Carrie Vaughn, Charlie Jane Anders, Mercurio D. Rivera, Maggie Clark, M.L. Clark, Melissa Scott, Rich Larson, and Ken Liu.
#6 of 12 in The Year's Best Science Fiction
1973 • 1 Reader • 240 pages
#7 of 12 in The Year's Best Science Fiction
1974 • 1 Reader • 255 pages
#8 of 12 in The Year's Best Science Fiction
1976 • 1 Reader • 253 pages
#14 of 12 in The Year's Best Science Fiction
1997 • 676 pages
#21 of 12 in The Year's Best Science Fiction
2004 • 705 pages
#0 of 2 in Jackaroo
2010 • 4 Readers • 4
#28 of 12 in The Year's Best Science Fiction
2011 • 4 Readers • 4
#32 of 12 in The Year's Best Science Fiction
2015 • 3 Readers • 4
#34 of 12 in The Year's Best Science Fiction
2017 • 4 Readers • 703 pages • 3
#35 of 12 in The Year's Best Science Fiction
2018 • 4 Readers • 3.5