The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8 [Mass Market Paperback]

Terry Carr (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 372 pages
• Publisher: Del Rey; First Edition edition (June 12, 1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345280830
• ISBN-13: 978-0345280831
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,362,415 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Not Free SF Reader, May 18, 2008

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This review is from: The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8 (Mass Market Paperback)

An average of 3.63, but this contains a brief recommended reading list, and a few pages of a yearly overview by Charles N. Brown that are worth enough of a small decimal to boost this high enough to round to 4.5, given the lack of ordinary stories in general. It is closer to 4.25, than 4.5.

Kingsbury the standout, with Leiber, Varley and Kelly to follow.

Terry Carr 08 : The Barbie Murders - John Varley
Terry Carr 08 : A Hiss of Dragon - Gregory Benford and Marc Laidlaw
Terry Carr 08 : Black Glass - Fritz Leiber
Terry Carr 08 : To Bring in the Steel - Donald Kingsbury
Terry Carr 08 : The Very Slow Time Machine - Ian Watson
Terry Carr 08 : Devil You Don't Know - Dean Ing
Terry Carr 08 : Count the Clock That Tells the Time - Harlan Ellison
Terry Carr 08 : View from a Height - Joan D. Vinge
Terry Carr 08 : The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck - Hilbert Schenck
Terry Carr 08 : Vermeer's Window - Gordon Eklund
Terry Carr 08 : The Man Who Had No Idea - Thomas M. Disch
Terry Carr 08 : Death Therapy - James Patrick Kelly


Standard lookalikes hard to investigate.

4 out of 5


Crimelord recruiting is a sticky situation.

3.5 out of 5


Dreck and Guck future.

4 out of 5


Wh0re governess troubleshooter happiness hire finds out space can be interesting.

4.5 out of 5


Step back before forward.

4 out of 5


Patient retardation.

3 out of 5


Limbo leavetaking.

3.5 out of 5


Interstellar one-way trip journal.

3.5 out of 5


Chrononauts sea save.

3.5 out of 5


Painter template.

3.5 out of 5


Temporary license is right.

2.5 out of 5


Kill punishment problems.

4 out of 5




4.5 out of 5