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Terry Carr


The Best Science Fiction of the Year #1

Best SF of the Year: Book 1

Terry Carr

Table of Contents:

The Best Science Fiction of the Year #2

Best SF of the Year: Book 2

Terry Carr

Table of Contents:

  • Honorable Mentions - 1972 - essay by Terry Carr
  • Introduction - essay by Terry Carr
  • The Meeting - (1972) - shortstory by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth
  • Nobody's Home - (1972) - shortstory by Joanna Russ
  • Fortune Hunter - (1972) - shortstory by Poul Anderson
  • The Fifth Head of Cerberus - (1972) - novella by Gene Wolfe
  • Caliban - (1972) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
  • Conversational Mode - (1972) - shortstory by Grahame Leman
  • Their Thousandth Season - (1972) - shortstory by Edward Bryant
  • Eurema's Dam - (1972) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
  • Zero Gee - (1972) - novelette by Ben Bova
  • Sky Blue - (1972) - shortstory by Alexei Panshin and Cory Panshin
  • Miss Omega Raven - (1972) - shortstory by Naomi Mitchison
  • Patron of the Arts - (1972) - novelette by William Rotsler
  • Grasshopper Time - (1972) - shortstory by Gordon Eklund
  • Hero - (1972) - novella by Joe Haldeman
  • When We Went to See the End of the World - (1972) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
  • Painwise - (1972) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.

The Best Science Fiction of the Year #3

Best SF of the Year: Book 3

Terry Carr

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction - essay by Terry Carr
  • Something Up There Likes Me - (1973) - shortstory by Alfred Bester
  • The World as Will and Wallpaper - (1973) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
  • Breckenridge and the Continuum - (1973) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
  • Rumfuddle - (1973) - novella by Jack Vance
  • Tell Me All About Yourself - (1973) - shortstory by F. M. Busby
  • The Deathbird - (1973) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
  • Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand - (1973) - novelette by Vonda N. McIntyre
  • The Death of Dr. Island - (1973) - novella by Gene Wolfe
  • The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - (1973) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Sketches Among the Ruins of My Mind - (1973) - novelette by Philip José Farmer
  • The Women Men Don't See - (1973) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
  • Honorable Mentions - 1973 - essay by Terry Carr

The Best Science Fiction of the Year #4

Best SF of the Year: Book 4

Terry Carr

Table of Contents:

The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5

Best SF of the Year: Book 5

Terry Carr

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction - essay by Terry Carr
  • Down to a Sunless Sea - (1975) - novelette by Cordwainer Smith and Genevieve Linebarger
  • Retrograde Summer - (1975) - novelette by John Varley
  • The Hero as Werwolf - (1975) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
  • The Silent Eyes of Time - (1975) - novella by Algis Budrys
  • Croatoan - (1975) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
  • Doing Lennon - (1975) - shortstory by Gregory Benford
  • The New Atlantis - (1975) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Clay Suburb - (1975) - shortstory by Robert F. Young
  • The Storms of Windhaven - (1975) - novella by George R. R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle
  • Child of All Ages - (1975) - shortstory by P. J. Plauger
  • In the Bowl - (1975) - novelette by John Varley
  • Sail the Tide of Mourning - (1975) - shortstory by Richard A. Lupoff
  • Recommended Reading - 1975 - essay by Terry Carr
  • The Science Fiction Year (1975) - essay by Charles N. Brown

The Best Science Fiction of the Year #6

Best SF of the Year: Book 6

Terry Carr

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction - essay by Terry Carr
  • I See You - (1976) - shortstory by Damon Knight
  • The Phantom of Kansas - (1976) - novelette by John Varley
  • Seeing - (1976) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
  • The Death of Princes - (1976) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
  • The Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Awful Things to Rats - (1976) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
  • The Eyeflash Miracles - (1976) - novella by Gene Wolfe
  • An Infinite Summer - (1976) - novelette by Christopher Priest
  • The Highest Dive - (1976) - shortstory by Jack Williamson
  • Meathouse Man - (1976) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
  • Custer's Last Jump - (1976) - novelette by Steven Utley and Howard Waldrop
  • The Bicentennial Man - (1976) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
  • Recommended Reading - 1976 - essay by Terry Carr
  • The Science Fiction Year (1976) - essay by Charles N. Brown

The Best Science Fiction of the Year #7

Best SF of the Year: Book 7

Terry Carr

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction - essay by Terry Carr
  • Lollipop and the Tar Baby - (1977) - novelette by John Varley
  • Stardance - (1977) - novella by Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson
  • The House of Compassionate Sharers - (1977) - novelette by Michael Bishop
  • The Screwfly Solution - (1977) - novelette by Raccoona Sheldon
  • Aztecs - (1977) - novella by Vonda N. McIntyre
  • Tropic of Eden - (1977) - shortstory by Lee Killough
  • Victor - (1977) - shortstory by Bruce McAllister
  • The Family Monkey - (1977) - novella by Lisa Tuttle
  • A Rite of Spring - (1977) - novelette by Fritz Leiber
  • Recommended Reading - 1977 - essay by Terry Carr
  • The Science-Fiction Year (1977) - essay by Charles N. Brown

The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8

Best SF of the Year: Book 8

Terry Carr

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction - essay by Terry Carr
  • The Barbie Murders - (1978) - novelette by John Varley
  • A Hiss of Dragon - (1978) - novelette by Gregory Benford and Marc Laidlaw
  • Black Glass - (1978) - novelette by Fritz Leiber
  • To Bring in the Steel - (1978) - novelette by Donald Kingsbury
  • The Very Slow Time Machine - (1978) - novelette by Ian Watson
  • Devil You Don't Know - (1978) - novelette by Dean Ing
  • Count the Clock That Tells the Time - (1978) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
  • View from a Height - (1978) - shortstory by Joan D. Vinge
  • The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck - (1978) - novelette by Hilbert Schenck
  • Vermeer's Window - (1978) - shortstory by Gordon Eklund
  • The Man Who Had No Idea - (1978) - novelette by Thomas M. Disch
  • Death Therapy - (1978) - shortstory by James Patrick Kelly
  • Recommended Reading - 1978 - essay by Terry Carr
  • The Science Fiction Year (1978) - essay by Charles N. Brown

The Best Science Fiction of the Year #9

Best SF of the Year: Book 9

Terry Carr

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction - essay by Terry Carr
  • Galatea Galante, The Perfect Popsy - (1979) - novelette by Alfred Bester
  • Sandkings - (1979) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
  • Time Shards - (1979) - shortstory by Gregory Benford
  • In the Country of the Blind, No One Can See - (1979) - shortstory by Melisa Michaels
  • Re-deem the Time - (1978) - shortstory by David J. Lake
  • Down & Out on Ellfive Prime - (1979) - novelette by Dean Ing
  • The Exit Door Leads In - (1979) - shortstory by Philip K. Dick
  • Options - (1979) - novelette by John Varley
  • In Trophonius's Cave - (1979) - shortstory by James P. Girard
  • Fireflood - (1979) - novelette by Vonda N. McIntyre
  • No More Pencils, No More Books - (1979) - shortstory by John Morressy
  • The Vacuum-Packed Picnic - (1979) - shortstory by Rick Gauger
  • The Thaw - (1979) - novelette by Tanith Lee
  • In a Petri Dish Upstairs - (1978) - novelette by George Turner
  • Recommended Reading - 1979 - essay by Terry Carr
  • The Science-Fiction Year (1979) - essay by Charles N. Brown

The Best Science Fiction of the Year #10

Best SF of the Year: Book 10

Terry Carr

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction - essay by Terry Carr
  • Grotto of the Dancing Deer - (1980) - shortstory by Clifford D. Simak
  • Scorched Supper on New Niger - (1980) - novelette by Suzy McKee Charnas
  • Ginungagap - (1980) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
  • Frozen Journey - (1980) - shortstory by Philip K. Dick
  • The Ugly Chickens - (1980) - novelette by Howard Waldrop
  • Nightflyers - (1980) - novella by George R. R. Martin
  • Beatnik Bayou - (1980) - novelette by John Varley
  • Window - (1980) - shortstory by Bob Leman
  • Tell Us a Story - (1980) - novella by Zenna Henderson
  • Le Croix (The Cross) - (1980) - novelette by Barry N. Malzberg
  • Martian Walkabout - (1980) - shortstory by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
  • Slow Music - (1980) - novella by James Tiptree, Jr.
  • The Science Fiction Year (1980) - essay by Charles N. Brown
  • Recommended Reading - 1980 - essay by Terry Carr

The Best Science Fiction of the Year #11

Best SF of the Year: Book 11

Terry Carr

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction - (1982) - essay by Terry Carr
  • The Saturn Game - (1981) - novella by Poul Anderson
  • Walk the Ice - (1981) - shortstory by Mildred Downey Broxon
  • Trial Sample - (1981) - shortstory by Ted Reynolds
  • The Pusher - (1981) - shortstory by John Varley
  • Venice Drowned - (1981) - novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Walden Three - (1981) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
  • Second Comings - Reasonable Rates - (1981) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
  • Forever - (1981) - shortstory by Damon Knight
  • Emergence - (1981) - novelette by David R. Palmer
  • You Can't Go Back - (1981) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
  • Walpurgisnacht - (1981) - shortstory by Roger Zelazny
  • The Woman the Unicorn Loved - (1981) - novelette by Gene Wolfe
  • Serpents' Teeth - (1981) - shortstory by Spider Robinson
  • The Thermals of August - (1981) - novelette by Edward Bryant
  • Going Under - (1981) - novelette by Jack Dann
  • The Quiet - (1981) - shortstory by George Guthridge
  • Swarmer, Skimmer - (1981) - novella by Gregory Benford
  • The Science Fiction Year (1981) - essay by Charles N. Brown
  • Recommended Reading - 1981 - essay by Terry Carr

The Best Science Fiction of the Year #12

Best SF of the Year: Book 12

Terry Carr

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction - (1983) - essay by Terry Carr
  • The Pope of the Chimps - (1982) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
  • Swarm - (1982) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
  • Souls - (1982) - novella by Joanna Russ
  • Burning Chrome - (1982) - novelette by William Gibson
  • Farmer on the Dole - (1982) - novelette by Frederik Pohl
  • Meet Me at Apogee - (1982) - novelette by Bill Johnson
  • Sur - (1982) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Understanding Human Behavior: A Romance of the Rocky Mountains - (1982) - novelette by Thomas M. Disch
  • Relativistic Effects - (1982) - novelette by Gregory Benford
  • Firewatch - (1982) - novelette by Connie Willis
  • The Wooing of Slowboat Sadie - (1982) - shortstory by George Alec Effinger
  • With the Original Cast - (1982) - novelette by Nancy Kress
  • When the Fathers Go - (1982) - novelette by Bruce McAllister
  • The Science Fiction Year (1982) - (1983) - essay by Charles N. Brown
  • Recommended Reading - 1982 - (1983) - essay by Terry Carr

The Best Science Fiction of the Year #13

Best SF of the Year: Book 13

Terry Carr

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction - essay by Terry Carr
  • Servant of the People - (1983) - shortstory by Frederik Pohl
  • Slow Birds - (1983) - novelette by Ian Watson
  • The Sidon in the Mirror - (1983) - novelette by Connie Willis
  • Hardfought - (1983) - novella by Greg Bear
  • Amanda and the Alien - (1983) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
  • Kaleidoscope - (1983) - novelette by Cherry Wilder
  • The Tithonian Factor - (1983) - shortstory by Richard Cowper
  • Blind Shemmy - (1983) - novelette by Jack Dann
  • Scenes from the Country of the Blind - (1977) - shortstory by John Sladek
  • Her Habiline Husband - (1983) - novella by Michael Bishop
  • The Science Fiction Year (1983) - essay by Charles N. Brown
  • Recommended Reading - essay by Terry Carr

Best SF of the Year #14

Best SF of the Year: Book 14

Terry Carr

Table of ContentS:

  • Introduction - (1985) - essay by Terry Carr
  • Press Enter [] - (1984) - novella by John Varley
  • Blued Moon - (1984) - novelette by Connie Willis
  • Summer Solstice - (1984) - novelette by Charles L. Harness
  • Morning Child - (1984) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois
  • The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything - (1984) - shortstory by George Alec Effinger
  • A Day in the Skin (or, The Century We Were Out of Them) - (1984) - shortstory by Tanith Lee
  • Instructions - (1984) - shortstory by Bob Leman
  • The Lucky Strike - (1984) - novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Green Hearts - (1984) - shortstory by Lee Montgomerie
  • Bloodchild - (1984) - novelette by Octavia E. Butler
  • Trojan Horse - (1984) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
  • Fears - (1984) - shortstory by Pamela Sargent
  • Trinity - (1984) - novella by Nancy Kress
  • 1984, the SF Year in Review - (1985) - essay by Charles N. Brown
  • Recommended Reading - (1985) - essay by Terry Carr

Best SF of the Year #15

Best SF of the Year: Book 15

Terry Carr

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction (Best SF of the Year 15) - (1986) - essay by Terry Carr
  • Sailing to Byzantium - (1985) - novella by Robert Silverberg
  • Flying Saucer Rock & Roll - (1985) - novelette by Howard Waldrop
  • Bluff - (1985) - novelette by Harry Turtledove
  • A Spanish Lesson - (1985) - novelette by Lucius Shepard
  • Snow - (1985) - shortstory by John Crowley
  • Shanidar - (1985) - novelette by David Zindell
  • All My Darling Daughters - (1985) - novelette by Connie Willis
  • Of Space-Time and the River - (1985) - novelette by Gregory Benford
  • A Gift from the GrayLanders - (1985) - novelette by Michael Bishop
  • Praxis - (1985) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
  • The People on the Precipice - (1985) - shortstory by Ian Watson
  • The Only Neat Thing to Do - (1985) - novella by James Tiptree, Jr.
  • 1985, the SF Year in Review - (1986) - essay by Charles N. Brown
  • Recommended Reading - (1986) - essay by Terry Carr

Best SF of the Year #16

Best SF of the Year: Book 16

Terry Carr

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction - (1987) - essay by Terry Carr
  • Escape from Kathmandu - (1986) - novella by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Hatrack River - (1986) - novelette by Orson Scott Card
  • Blindsight - (1986) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
  • Galileo Complains - (1986) - shortstory by Carter Scholz
  • Aymara - (1986) - novelette by Lucius Shepard
  • Cold Light - (1986) - novelette by Ian Watson
  • Surviving - (1986) - novelette by Judith Moffett
  • The Prisoner of Chillon - (1986) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
  • And so to Bed - (1986) - shortstory by Harry Turtledove
  • Grave Angels - (1986) - novelette by Richard Kearns
  • Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo - (1986) - novella by John Varley
  • Recomended Reading (1986) - (1987) - essay by Terry Carr

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