 Cover of first edition, 1982 | |
| Editors | Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
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| Cover artist | Wayne D. Barlowe |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Annual World’s Best SF |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | DAW Books |
Publication date | 1982 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | 304 |
| ISBN | 0-87997-728-0 |
| Preceded by | The 1981 Annual World's Best SF |
| Followed by | The 1983 Annual World's Best SF |
The 1982 Annual World's Best SF is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha, the eleventh volume in a series of nineteen. It was first published in paperback by DAW Books in May 1982, followed by a hardcover edition issued in September of the same year by the same publisher as a selection of the Science Fiction Book Club. For the hardcover edition the original cover art of Wayne D. Barlowe was replaced by a new cover painting by Dawn Wilson.
Contents
The book collects ten novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introduction by Wollheim. The stories were previously published in 1981 in the magazines Omni , The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact , and Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine , the collections Sunfall and Out of the Everywhere and Other Extraordinary Visions , and the anthology Distant Worlds.