Year's Best SF 3

David G. Hartwell (Editor)

John C. Wright's short story GUEST LAW appears in this volume. An image of the cover of Years Best SF 3

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ISBN# 0061059013.
Published June 1998 as a paperback
by HarperPrism Books.

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Editorial Reviews

As usual, Hartwell does a masterful job of picking wonderful works from a variety of venues, and the names here include Ray Bradbury, William Gibson, and Gene Wolfe. This is the perfect collection for readers seeking stories that are quintessentially science fiction. Year's Best SF is rapidly becoming one of the most important annual anthologies in the science fiction field. --Craig Engler

 

John C. Wright presents the future as baroque encrustation in "Guest Law," but the mock courtly double-dealing has as little humanity as his characters.--Steve Carper, Tangent Reviews.

 

Reader's Comments for Guest Law

John C. Wright's "Guest Law" is a welcome return to the flashy decadence of Cordwainer Smith's fiction. Its hero, a slave-engineer, watches in disgust as his aristocratic overlords corrupt the customary requirements of hospitality to justify piracy in deep space --Randy Stafford

 

Seems like a typical spaceship story, but this one sticks with you days and days after reading it ... oddly compelling. It certainly wasn't the story I expected to read, and I was very pleasantly surprised. I like the concept of planets being too hard to find, thus the only feasible living accommodations being spaceships. Cool.--Science Fiction Reading Club

 

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