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

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

Dust cover of first edition
Author	Edited by Gardner Dozois
Cover artist	Jim Burns
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	The Year's Best Science Fiction
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	St. Martin's Griffin
Publication date	2014
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	xliii, 705 pp.
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Preceded by	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection
Followed by	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Gardner Dozois, the thirty-first volume in an ongoing series. It was first published in hardcover, trade paperback and ebook by St. Martin's Griffin in July 2014, with a book club edition co-issued with the Science Fiction Book Club issued in the same month. The first British edition was published in trade paperback by Robinson in November 2014, under the alternate title The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 27.

The book collects thirty-two novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introductory summation of the year, notes and concluding bibliography by the editor. The stories were previously published in 2013 in various science fiction and other magazines.

The anthology placed fifth in the 2015 Locus Poll Award for Best Anthology.