daadutch.blogg.se - The Best Science Fiction of the Year 4 by Terry Carr

The fiction in Terry Carr’s debut solo ‘Best of the Year’ volume (he co-edited a series with Donald A.

short story by George Alec Effinger ∗ ∗.

The Frayed String on the Stretched Forefinger of Time

short story by Philip José Farmer ∗ ∗ ∗+.

The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World A reader-friendly combination.Ĭharlie Brown, Locus #129, December 15, 1972ĭave Hartwell, Locus #125, October 27 1972

Summary: An assured solo ‘Best of Year’ anthology for 1971 from Terry Carr, whose choices seem to split pretty evenly between crowd-pleasers (Clarke’s excellent A Meeting With Medusa, Anderson’s A Queen of Air and Darkness, and the Niven), experimental and literary work (Le Guin’s Vaster Than Empires and More Slow, the Silverberg and Panshin), and humour and satire (work from Farmer, Spinrad, and Effinger, etc.).