The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection

Author	Edited by Gardner Dozois
Cover artist	Michael Carroll
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	The Year's Best Science Fiction
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	St. Martin's Griffin
Publication date	2000 July (collecting stories originally published in 1999)
Media type	Print and e-book
Pages	688 (617 of story text; some blank)
ISBN	(hardcover); ISBN (paperback); ISBN (e-book)
OCLC	44655078
Preceded by	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection
Followed by	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection is a science fiction anthology which was compiled by Gardner Dozois and published in 2000. It won the Locus Award for best anthology in 1991.

Like most of the books in the Year's Best Science Fiction series, the book consists of a "summation" section listing and commenting on developments in and related to science fiction in the previous year (1999), a selection of stories published in that year (each with an introduction by the editor), and a referenced list of honorable mentions from the stories not selected. The stories included in the book are as follows.