Best Science Fiction of the Year Books
Contents: · Introduction · Terry Carr · Occam’s Scalpel · Theodore Sturgeon · The Queen of Air and Darkness · Poul Anderson · In Entropy’s Jaws · Robert Silverberg · The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World · Philip José Farmer · A Meeting with Medusa · Arthur C. Clarke · The Frayed String on the Stretched Forefinger of Time · Lloyd Biggle, Jr. · How Can We Sink When We Can Fly? · Alexei Panshin · No Direction Home · Norman Spinrad · Vaster Than Empires and More Slow · Ursula K. Le Guin · All the Last Wars at Once · George Alec Effinger · The Fourth Profession · Larry Niven
Something Up There Likes Me by Alfred BesterThe World as Will and Wallpaper by R.A. LaffertyBreckenridge and the Continuum by Robert SilverbergRumfuddle by Jack VanceTell Me All About Yourself by F.M. BusbyThe Deathbird by Harlan EllisonOf Mist, and Grass, and Sand by Vonda N. McIntyreThe Death of Dr. Island by Gene WolfeThe Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le GuinSketches Among the Ruins of My Mind by Philip Jose FarmerThe Women Men Don't See by James Tiptree, Jr.
When Terry Carr says these 10 science-fiction stories are the best of the year...you better believe it! We Purchased People , Frederik Pohl: A strange love story of a man and woman whose bodies belonged to the aliens...but whose hearts belonged to each other! The Hole Man , Larry Niven: Explorers on Mars found a city...abandoned but somehow still functioning! Born With the Dead , Robert Silverberg: A haunting tale of a man who followed the woman he loved...beyond the gates of death! The Author of the Acacia Seeds , Ursula K. Le Guin: Of course there are no aliens on Earth...or are there? On Venus, Have We Got A Rabbi , William Tenn: The First Interstellar Neozionist Conference really had a problem--a delegation from Rigel was seeking admittance. But are giant cockroaches...really Jewish? -PLUS- Dark Icarus , Bob Shaw If the Stars Are Gods , Gordon Eklund and Gregory Benford The Engine at Heartspring's Center , Roger Zelany Pale Roses , Michael Moorcock A Little Something For Us Tempunauts , Philip K. Dick On Venus, Have We Got a Rabbi , William Tenn The Engine at Heartspring's Center , Roger Zelazny If the Stars Are Gods , Gordon Eklund and Gregory Benford Honorable Mentions - 1974 , Terry Carr The Science Fiction Year (1974) , Charles N. Brown
Ballantine Books, 1976. Mass market paperback. 12 of the best science fiction stories of 1975. Includes introduction and "recommended reading" list from editor Terry Carr , "The Science Fiction Year (1978)" essay by Charles N. Brown , and these works: “Down to a Sunless Sea” by Cordwainer Smith "Retrograde Summer” by John Varley "The Hero As Werwolf” by Gene Wolfe "The Silent Eyes of Time” by Algis Budrys "Croatoan” by Harlan Ellison "Doing Lennon” by Gregory Benford "The New Atlantis” by Ursula K. Le Guin "Clay Suburb” by Robert F. Young "The Storms of Windhaven” by George R. R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle "Child of All Ages” by P. J. Plauger "In the Bowl” by John Varley "Sail the Tide of Mourning” by Richard A. Lupoff
Contents: Introduction: essay by Terry Carr I See You: '76 story by Damon Knight The Phantom of Kansas: '76 novelette by John Varley Seeing '76 novelette by Harlan Ellison The Death of Princes: '76 story by Fritz Leiber The Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Awful Things to Rats: '76 novelette by James Tiptree Jr. The Eyeflash Miracles: '76 novella by Gene Wolfe An Infinite Summer: '76 novelette by Christopher Priest The Highest Dive: '76 story by Jack Williamson Meathouse Man: '76 novelette by George R.R. Martin Custer's Last Jump: '76 novelette by Steven Utley and Howard Waldrop The Bicentennial Man: '76 novelette by Isaac Asimov Recommended Reading: essay by Terry Carr The Science Fiction Year: essay by Charles N. Brown
Terry Carr's annual anthologies are now firmly established as the most reliable and entertaining guides to the very best of the past year's new science fiction. "The latest in a first-rate series," wrote Michael Maxwell Scott in the Daily Telegraph of the previous collection. The present volume is no exception. As usual, Mr Carr has read every new sf story published in 1977, and has selected nine stories showing the full originality and range of science fiction. They include two Nebula Award "Stardance", by Spider and Jeanne Robinson, in which the developing art-form of freefall dancing provides to communication with potentially hostile visiting aliens, and "The Screwfly Solution", by Raccoona Sheldon (better known under her pseudonym "James Tiptree Jr") a horrifying story of an infection which causes men to murder women. The other contributors range from newcomers Lee KIllough and Lisa Tuttle, through some of the brightest stars of 1970s sf - Michael Bishop, Vonda McIntyre, John Varley - to the old master Fritz Leiber, whose story is an irresistible tale of scientifically-conceived spell which conjures up a thoroughly irresistible visitor from another dimension.
Ballantine Del Rey, 1979. First edition. Collects 12 top science fiction stories from 1978. Includes introduction and "recommended reading" list from editor Terry Carr , "The Science Fiction Year (1978)" essay by Charles N. Brown , and these works: “The Barbie Murders” by John Varley ”A Hiss of Dragon” by Gregory Benford and Marc Laidlaw ”Black Glass” by Fritz Leiber "To Bring in the Steel" by Donald Kingsbury "The Very Slow Time Machine" by Ian Watson "Devil You Don't Know" by Dean Ing "Count the Clock That Tells the Time" by Harlan Ellison “View from a Height” by Joan D. Vinge ”The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck” by Hilbert Schenck ”Vermeer's Window” by Gordon Eklund ”The Man Who Had No Idea” by Thomas M. Disch ”Death Therapy” by James Patrick Kelly
1st Printing 9 Oz. Pages are clean and bright, cover shows some wear. XLibrary with usual library attachments and/or markings. XLibrary No Jacket
Timescape / Pocket Books, 1983. Mass market paperback, first edition. Collects the very best sceince fiction stories of 1982. Includes an introduction and recommended reading list by editor Terry Carr , "The Science Fiction Year 1982" essay by Charles N. Brown and 13 wonderful stories: “The Pope of the Chimps” by Robert Silverberg "Swarm” by Bruce Sterling "Souls” by Joanna Russ "Burning Chrome” by William Gibson "Farmer on the Dole” by Frederik Pohl "Meet Me at Apogee” by Bill Johnson "Sur” by Ursula K. Le Guin "Understanding Human Behavior: A Romance of the Rocky Mountains” by Thomas M. Disch "Relativistic Effects” by Gregory Benford "Firewatch” by Connie Willis "The Wooing of Slowboat Sadie” by George Alec Effinger [as by O. Niemand] "With the Original Cast” by Nancy Kress "When the Fathers Go” by Bruce McAllister
Baen, 1984. Mass market paperback, first edition. Collects 10 top science fiction stories from 1983. Includes an introduction and "recommended reading" list from editor Terry Carr , "The Science Fiction Year (1983)" essay by Charles N. Brown , and these works: “Servant of the People” by Frederik Pohl "Slow Birds” by Ian Watson "The Sidon in the Mirror” by Connie Willis "Hardfought” by Greg Bear "Amanda and the Alien” by Robert Silverberg "Kaleidoscope” by Cherry Wilder "The Tithonian Factor” by Richard Cowper "Blind Shemmy” by Jack Dann "Scenes from the Country of the Blind” by John Sladek "Her Habiline Husband” by Michael Bishop
This fourteenth annual "Best of the Year" collection includes John Varley's "Press Enter," Octavia E. Butler's "Bloodchild," Pamela Sargent's "Fears," Connie Willis's "Blue Moon," and Michael Swanwick's "Trojan Horse"
Short stories by Robert Silverberg, Gregory Benford, Connie Willis, James Tiptree, Jr., and others highlight a collection of the outstanding science fiction works of 1985
Tor, 1987. Hardcover with dustjacket. First edition. The final volume of this series. Collects 11 stories, along with "1986, the SF and Fantasy Year in Review" essay by Charles N. Brown , and introduction and "Recommended Reading" list by editor " Terry Carr . Stories include: “Escape from Kathmandu” by Kim Stanley Robinson "Hatrack River” by Orson Scott Card "Blindsight” by Robert Silverberg "Galileo Complains” by Carter Scholz "Aymara” by Lucius Shepard "Cold Light” by Ian Watson "Surviving” by Judith Moffett "The Prisoner of Chillon” by James Patrick Kelly "And So to Bed” by Harry Turtledove "Grave Angels” by Richard Kearns "Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo” by John Varley