Publication: The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8

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Publication: The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8Publication Record # 287229
Editor: Terry Carr
Date: 1979-00-00
ISBN: 0-575-02727-4 [978-0-575-02727-5]
Publisher: Gollancz
Price:
£6.50^?£: UK pound
Pages: viii+363
Format:
hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
Type: ANTHOLOGY
Notes:
- No cover price printed - price taken from Vector review.
- No cover artist. This is one of the yellow Gollancz editions with letters only and no art.
- Charles N. Brown's "The Science Fiction Year (1978)" and Terry Carr's "Recommended Reading - 1978" are not included in this edition.
External IDs:
- OCLC/WorldCat: 219905688

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Anthology Title: The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8 • [Best SF of the Year • 8] • (1979) • anthology by Terry Carr

Contents (view Concise Listing)

vii • Introduction (The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8) • (1979) • essay by Terry Carr
1 • The Barbie Murders • [Anna-Louise Bach] • (1978) • novelette by John Varley
35 • A Hiss of Dragon • (1978) • short story by Gregory Benford and Marc Laidlaw
56 • Black Glass • (1978) • novelette by Fritz Leiber
89 • To Bring in the Steel • (1978) • novelette by Donald Kingsbury
136 • The Very Slow Time Machine • (1978) • novelette by Ian Watson
159 • Devil You Don't Know • [Val Clarke] • (1978) • novelette by Dean Ing
207 • Count the Clock That Tells the Time • (1978) • short story by Harlan Ellison
228 • View from a Height • (1978) • short story by Joan D. Vinge
246 • The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck • (1978) • novelette by Hilbert Schenck
281 • Vermeer's Window • (1978) • short story by Gordon Eklund
298 • The Man Who Had No Idea • (1978) • novelette by Thomas M. Disch
336 • Death Therapy • (1978) • short story by James Patrick Kelly

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