The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy of the Year Volume 5

The train slowed down at last, coming to a stop in the dark mouth of the station, and Kosonen was in the city. Kosonen shook it gingerly, feeling strange jagged things under Pera’s skin. He is the author of a large and influential body of short fiction, much of which has been collected in Crystal Express, Globalhead, A Good Old-Fashioned Future, and Visionary in Residence. A whole planet of worlds, and not one of them—not one—has a soul.