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  • The 1972 Annual World's Best SF, Donald A. Wollheim, Editor
  • The 1972 Annual World's Best SF, Donald A. Wollheim, Editor
  • The 1972 Annual World's Best SF, Donald A. Wollheim, Editor

The 1972 Annual World's Best SF, Donald A. Wollheim, Editor

Item Number
443
Estimated Value
5 USD
Buy Now Price
5 USD
Not Sold
 

Item Description

This anthology of science fiction short stories and novelettes is a delight, both because the stories are wonderful, but also because of the perspective on the future from nearly 50 years ago!  It's a delight.

The stories were selected as the best from among those published in periodicals and short story collections in the previous year. Along with an introduction by the editor, the contents include:

The Fourth Profession by Larry Niven from Quark/4;

Gleepsite by Joanna Russ from Orbit 9;

The Bear with the Knot on His Tail by Stephen Tall from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction;

The Sharks of Pentreath by Michael G. Coney from Galaxy;

A Little Knowledge by Poul Anderson from Analog;

Real-Time World by Christopher Priest from New Writings in SF;

All Pieces of a River Shore by R. A. Lafferty from Orbit 8;

With Friends Like These by Alan Dean Foster from Analog;

Aunt Jennie's Tonic by Leonard Tushnet from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction;

Timestorm by Eddy C. Bertin from De Achtjaarlijkse;

Transit of Earth by Arthur C. Clarke from Playboy;

Gehenna by Barry Malzberg from Galaxy;

ne Life, Furnished in Early Poverty by Harlan Ellison from Orbit 8; and

Occam's Scalpel by Theodore Sturgeon

Used  - Very good, but no dust jacket

Published 1972.  296 pages.  8-1/2 x 5-3/4 x 1"  Hardback

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Donated By:

Jan de Wald