Dilemma
On the one hand, I've got 17 short-story collections and anthologies, plus two chapbooks, in a stack next to my bed, in various stages of unreadness. And no time.
On the other hand, Ted Chiang's short-story collection Stories of Your Life and Others is now available, as is Gardner's Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection (for stories published in 2001).
To make matters worse, Amazon is offering those two books together for $31.44 (plus shipping, presumably). I normally get books online at Powell's (or at my local bookstore, but its selection has gone downhill since going out of business and being bought by a small local chain, and ordering through them tends to take a while and require me to go there in person to pick stuff up), but that's an extremely good price at Amazon; basically 1/3 off.
And I've already read at least half of the stories in Ted's book, and I'm bound to get the YBSF sooner or later anyway, so it might as well be now, right?