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The Best Science Fiction of the Year 1

by Terry Carr · 1972

Best Science Fiction of the Year (Carr) series

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Contents:

* Introduction * Terry Carr

* Occam's Scalpel * Theodore Sturgeon

* The Queen of Air and Darkness * Poul Anderson

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* In Entropy's Jaws * Robert Silverberg

* The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World * Philip Jose Farmer

* A Meeting with Medusa * Arthur C. Clarke

* The Frayed String on the Stretched Forefinger of Time * Lloyd Biggle, Jr.

* How Can We Sink When We Can Fly? * Alexei Panshin

* No Direction Home * Norman Spinrad

* Vaster Than Empires and More Slow * Ursula K. Le Guin

* All the Last Wars at Once * George Alec Effinger

* The Fourth Profession * Larry Niven

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Audience
adult
Length
medium · 340 pages
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