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
This book is part of the Best Science Fiction of the Year Books series.