Year's Best SF 2 Hardcover - 1997

First hardcover edition. Prior owner's name on first blank page, otherwise very good. Dust jacket has light edge wear, now in new removable protective cover. Black boards with gold print on the spine; spine has light bump at top. Pages are clean and unmarked. Harper Prism / Science Fiction Book Club hard cover with dust jacket, Sept. 1997, ISBN: 9781568654386, 315 pages, cover art by Bob Eggleton. 8vo (5.75" x 8.5") This is the only hard cover edition; book club reprint of mass paperback original. Third place, 1998 Locus Award. Contents: Introduction, by David G. Hartwell. Stories: After a Lean Winter, by Dave Wolverton (nominated, 1997 Nebula Award); In the Upper Room, by Terry Bisson; Thinkertoy, by John Brunner; Zoomers, by Gregory Benford; Out of the Mouths, by Sheila Finch; Breakaway, Backdown; by James Patrick Kelly (nominated, 1996 HOMer Award); Tobacco Words; by Yves Meynard; Invasion, by Joanna Russ; The House of Mourning, by Brian Stableford (nominated, 1996 Stoker Award); Life Edit, by Damon Knight; First Tuesday, by Robert Reed; The Spear of the Sun, by David Langford; Counting Cats in Zanzibar, by Gene Wolfe (2nd place, 1997 Locus Award); Bicycle Repairman, by Bruce Sterling (winner, 1997 Hugo Award); Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland, by Gwyneth Jones; Doblin's Lecture, by Allen Steele; The Bride of Elvis, by Kathleen Ann Goonan; Forget Luck, by Kate Wilhelm (5th place, 1997 Locus Award); Nonstop to Portales, by Connie Willis (winner, 1998 Premio Ignotus); Columbiad, by Stephen Baxter (13th place, 1997 Locus Award).