Editor | Terry Carr |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Series | The Best Science Fiction of the Year |
Genre | Science fiction |
Publisher | Pocket Books |
Publication date | 1981 |
Media type | Print (paperback) |
Pages | 434 |
ISBN | 0-671-42262-6 |
Preceded by | The Best Science Fiction of the Year 9 |
Followed by | The Best Science Fiction of the Year 11 |
The Best Science Fiction of the Year #10 is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Terry Carr, the tenth volume in a series of sixteen. It was first published in paperback by Pocket Books in July 1981, and in trade paperback and hardcover and trade paperback (the latter under the slightly variant title The Best Science Fiction of the Year: No. 10) by Gollancz in the same year.
The book collects twelve novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introduction, notes and concluding essays by Carr and Charles N. Brown. The stories were previously published in 1980 in the magazines Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact , TriQuarterly , Playboy , The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , and Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine , and the anthologies New Voices III: The Campbell Award Nominees , Universe 10 , Their Immortal Hearts , and Interfaces .
The anthology placed third in the 1982 Locus Poll Award for Best Anthology.
"Grotto of the Dancing Deer" won the 1980 Nebula Award for Best Short Story, the 1980 Analog Award for Best Short Story, and the 1981 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, and placed first in the 1981 Locus Poll Award for Best Short Story.
"Scorched Supper on New Niger" placed sixteenth in the 1981 Locus Poll Award for Best Novelette.
"Ginungagap" was nominated for the 1980 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and placed nineteenth in the 1981 Locus Poll Award for Best Novelette.
"Frozen Journey" placed eighth in the 1981 Locus Poll Award for Best Short Story.
"The Ugly Chickens" won the 1980 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and the 1981 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction, was nominated for the 1981 Balrog Award for Best Short Fiction and the 1981 Hugo Award for Best Novelette, and placed fifth in the 1981 Locus Poll Award for Best Novelette.
"Nightflyers" won the 1980 Analog Award for Best Novella/Novelette, was nominated for the 1981 Hugo Award for Best Novella, and placed first in the 1981 Locus Poll Award for Best Novella.
"Beatnik Bayou" was nominated for the 1980 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and the 1981 Hugo Award for Best Novelette, and placed second in the 1981 Locus Poll Award for Best Novelette.
"Window" was nominated for the 1980 Nebula Award for Best Short Story and placed fourth in the 1981 Locus Poll Award for Best Short Story.
"Tell Us a Story" placed seventeenth in the 1981 Locus Poll Award for Best Novella.
"Le Croix" placed fourteenth in the 1981 Locus Poll Award for Best Novella.
"Slow Music" placed seventh in the 1981 Locus Poll Award for Best Novella.
Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Terry Carr, the fourteenth volume in a series of sixteen. It was first published in paperback by Tor Books in July 1985, and in hardcover and trade paperback by Gollancz in October of the same year, under the alternate title Best SF of the Year #14.
The 1975 Annual World's Best SF is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha, the fourth volume in a series of nineteen. It was first published in paperback by DAW Books in May 1975, 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 Jack Gaughan was replaced by a new cover painting by Richard V. Corben. The paperback edition was reissued by DAW in December 1980 under the variant title Wollheim's World's Best SF: Series Four, this time with cover art by Vicente Segrelles. A British hardcover edition was published by The Elmfield Press in November 1976 under the variant title The World's Best SF Short Stories No. 2.
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