The Best Science Fiction of the Year [Paperback]

Terry Carr (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Pocket Books (June 1985)
• ISBN-10: 9999115799
• ISBN-13: 978-9999115797
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,453,179 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Not Free SF Reader, May 28, 2008

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This review is from: The Best Science Fiction of the Year (Paperback)

An anthology that includes Joe Haldeman's brilliant 'Hero' is certainly worth grabbing, and this also has 'The Fifth Head of Cerberus' and 'Nobody's' home on top of that, but quite a fair bit of ordinary drags this one down.

Terry Carr 02 : The Meeting - Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth

Terry Carr 02 : Nobody's Home - Joanna Russ

Terry Carr 02 : Fortune Hunter - Poul Anderson

Terry Carr 02 : The Fifth Head of Cerberus - Gene Wolfe

Terry Carr 02 : Caliban - Robert Silverberg

Terry Carr 02 : Conversational Mode - Grahame Leman

Terry Carr 02 : Their Thousandth Season - Edward Bryant

Terry Carr 02 : Eurema's Dam - R. A. Lafferty

Terry Carr 02 : Zero Gee - Ben Bova

Terry Carr 02 : Sky Blue - Alexei and Cory Panshin

Terry Carr 02 : Miss Omega Raven - Naomi Mitchison

Terry Carr 02 : Patron of the Arts - William Rotsler

Terry Carr 02 : Grasshopper Time - Gordon Eklund

Terry Carr 02 : Hero - Joe Haldeman

Terry Carr 02 : When We Went to See the End of the World - Robert Silverberg

Terry Carr 02 : Painwise - James Tiptree Jr.

Brain surgery decision.

3.5 out of 5

Only smart girls at parties, please.

4.5 out of 5

Rather be bush.

3.5 out of 5

Cheap clone kid chops clone dad, convict time done proves chip off the old research block.

4.5 out of 5

Sorry, none for you prettyboy.

3 out of 5

Psychiatry program.

2.5 out of 5

Breasting wrong memory.

3 out of 5

Last dolt good with bots.

3.5 out of 5

More than Mile High manipulation.

3.5 out of 5

Landlord, evict 'em.

2.5 out of 5

Corvidae superior.

3.5 out of 5

3-D disappearance.

3.5 out of 5

Half human hunt.

3 out of 5

"...Then some bright lad in the General Assembly decided that we ought to field an army of footsoldiers to guard the portal planets of the nearer collapsars. This led to the Elite Conscription Act of 1996 and the most elitely conscripted army in the history of warfare."

5 out of 5

Apocalypso touristo.

3 out of 5

Nociception not for pod people.

3.5 out of 5

3.5 out of 5