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Best Science Fiction of the Year #6 Mass Market Paperback – June 12, 1977

by Terry Carr (Author)

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Contents:

Introduction: essay by Terry Carr
I See You: '76 story by Damon Knight
The Phantom of Kansas: '76 novelette by John Varley
Seeing '76 novelette by Harlan Ellison
The Death of Princes: '76 story by Fritz Leiber
The Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Awful Things to Rats: '76 novelette by James Tiptree Jr.
The Eyeflash Miracles: '76 novella by Gene Wolfe
An Infinite Summer: '76 novelette by Christopher Priest
The Highest Dive: '76 story by Jack Williamson
Meathouse Man: '76 novelette by George R.R. Martin
Custer's Last Jump: '76 novelette by Steven Utley and Howard Waldrop
The Bicentennial Man: '76 novelette by Isaac Asimov
Recommended Reading: essay by Terry Carr
The Science Fiction Year: essay by Charles N. Brown

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Del Rey; 1st THUS edition (June 12, 1977)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 388 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0345257588
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0345257581
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.3 ounces

Best Sellers Rank: #4,801,409 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #10,168 in Science Fiction Anthologies (Books)

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Obiwanchia

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Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2011

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This book was an old anthology when I first read it in high school, but the stories are still pretty great today. I bought it primarily for the story by George R.R. Martin, but all the shorts are timeless fun.

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Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2008

In 1976, here is what Terry Carr has to say:

"The short story is a dying art-form everywhere but in science fiction and the reasons are worth considering."

Comparisons to tv and movies etc. and goes on further "I have a theory that short stories don't thrive today because people don't like to think...it has been said a good short story is essentially the pivotal chapter of a novel..inviting readers to extrapolate the background and aftermath for themselves...people prefer to have their thinking done for them by the authors...want writers to tell them what Maria said to her lover when she found out he was her uncle..Who wants to speculate?--We live in a world that worships data.

Well, maybe that's why the science-fiction short story isn't dying: because sf is a genre based on speculation."

He also has another theory: "I suspect most sciene-fiction readers being by reading novels, and only later do they graduate to novelettes and short stories. The shorter form is more demanding."

His thoughts aside, this is a fine collection, with a class start and finish, let down a bit by the middle, with the absolute nadir the overly tedious Christopher Priest story that could certainly have benefited from being shorter.

There is a brief recommended reading list, and several page overview of the science fiction year by Charles N. Brown.

Terry Carr 06 : I See You - Damon Knight
Terry Carr 06 : The Phantom of Kansas - John Varley
Terry Carr 06 : Seeing - Harlan Ellison
Terry Carr 06 : The Death of Princes - Fritz Leiber
Terry Carr 06 : The Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Awful Things to Rats - James Tiptree Jr.
Terry Carr 06 : The Eyeflash Miracles - Gene Wolfe
Terry Carr 06 : An Infinite Summer - Christopher Priest
Terry Carr 06 : The Highest Dive - Jack Williamson
Terry Carr 06 : Meathouse Man - George R. R. Martin
Terry Carr 06 : Custer's Last Jump - Steven Utley and Howard Waldrop
Terry Carr 06 : The Bicentennial Man - Isaac Asimov

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