The 1989 Annual World's Best SF [Paperback]

Donald A. Wollheim (Editor), Arthur W. Saha (Editor), Isaac Asimov (Introduction)

Product Details

• Paperback: 315 pages
• Publisher: DAW (June 6, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0886773539
• ISBN-13: 978-0886773533
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #788,055 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Not Free SF Reader, May 19, 2008

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Blue Tyson "- Research Finished" (Legion clubhouse) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The 1989 Annual World's Best SF (Paperback)

Perfect in one respect, not an average story to be seen in this book. Also in another, in that a 4.00 average is as good as you can reasonably hope to get for an anthology. So, absolute top marks here.

There are three standouts, with one headliner. If a story every deserved the word madcap, it is Steven Gould's 'Peaches for Mad Molly'.

There's also an introduction by Isaac Asimov, that gives a bio of the editor, who was apparently in hospital at the time.

Donald Wollheim 18 : The Giving Plague - David Brin
Donald Wollheim 18 : Peaches for Mad Molly - Steven Gould
Donald Wollheim 18 : Shaman - John Shirley
Donald Wollheim 18 : Schrodinger's Kitten - George Alec Effinger
Donald Wollheim 18 : The Flies of Memory - Ian Watson
Donald Wollheim 18 : Skin Deep - Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Donald Wollheim 18 : A Madonna of the Machine - Tanith Lee
Donald Wollheim 18 : Waiting for the Olympians - Frederik Pohl
Donald Wollheim 18 : Ain't Nothin' but a Hound Dog - B. W. Clough
Donald Wollheim 18 : Adrift Among the Ghosts - Jack L. Chalker
Donald Wollheim 18 : Ripples in the Dirac Sea - Geoffrey A. Landis

Altruism virus messiah.

4 out of 5


Falling off a 700 story building without a parachute is a real Howler.

5 out of 5


Cyberpunk mythology particle prison raid.

4 out of 5


Budayeen physicist choices.

4 out of 5


Para-gland capacity, understand.

3.5 out of 5


Bloody shedding alien shapeshifters.

4.5 out of 5


Regulated dream life.

3.5 out of 5


Alternate history could be big.

3.5 out of 5


This story had me in a millisecond :

"My first order from Mt. Adelaide was for the Modesty Blaise poster." is the opener.

A new and big spending customer's identity is rather surprising, for a woman that sells comics and collectibles.

"I felt so shook, I went downstairs and skimmed a couple issues of Action Comics, to see how Superman might handle it."

4.5 out of 5


Murderer media collector.

3.5 out of 5


Don't let the past catch up to you.

4 out of 5