David Hartwell (Ed)'s "Year's Best SF 3": Volume 3 of annual anthology series, 22 stories

Stories are ordered by quality, best first. Where I have read the story, my rating follows title, in brackets, followed by a very brief summary. Where I have posted a proper review of story, link on title takes you there.

Sometimes, author or publisher makes a story available online for free download. Where I am aware of this, I prefix the story entry with "*", & provide the link to story text either here or in my review article.

Stories collected were each published during the year 1997.

1. Gregory Benford's "The Voice" (B): Dark story about a future society where people have forgotten reading, writing, & books, & access all information via the Voice, a wireless audio interface to an all-knowing AI. Cops go after any foolish enough to rediscover the art of reading; their brains are forcibly treated so they forget their reading habits! Looks like the controlling AI is hiding something or have a design of its own, but we don't know for sure till end - where the protagonist's brain gets the treatment.
   
2. Gene Wolfe's "Petting Zoo": Not read.
3. Michael Swanwick's "The Wisdom of Old Earth"; Asimov's: Not read.
4. Jack Williamson's "The Firefly Tree": Not read.
5. William Gibson's "Thirteen Views of a Cardboard City": Not read.
6. S N Dyer's "The Nostalginauts"; Asimov's: Not read.
7. John C Wright's "Guest Law"; Asimov's: Not read.
8. * Greg Egan's "Yeyuka", online: Not read.
9. * Terry Bisson's "An Office Romance"; Playboy, Feb 1997, online: Not read.
10. * James Patrick Kelly's "Itsy Bitsy Spider"; Asimov's, online: Not read.
11. Robert Silverberg's "Beauty in the Night": Not read.
12. Ray Bradbury's "Mr Pale": Not read.
13. Brian Stableford's "The Pipes of Pan"; F&SF: Not read.
14. Nancy Kress' "Always True to Thee, in My Fashion"; Asimov's: Not read.
15. Tom Purdom's "Canary Land"; Asimov': Not read.
16. * Tom Cool's "Universal Emulators"; F&SF, online: Not read.
17. R Garcia y Robertson's "Fair Verona"; Asimov's: Not read.
18. Kim Newman's "Great Western": Not read.
19. Geoffrey A Landis' "Turnover"; Interzone: Not read.
20. Paul Levinson's "The Mendelian Lamp Case"; Analog: Not read.
21. Katherine MacLean's "Kiss Me"; Analog: Not read.
22. * Michael Moorcock's "London Bone", online: Not read.

First published: 1998
See also: Entire anthology series.