Publication: World's Best Science Fiction

Publication: World's Best Science FictionPublication Record # 305373
Editors: Terry Carr, Donald A. Wollheim
Date: 1969-00-00
ISBN: 0-575-00291-3 [978-0-575-00291-3]
Publisher: Gollancz
Price:
30/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
Pages: 320
Format:
hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
Type: ANTHOLOGY
Notes:
- As noted by Currey, this is the first hardcover edition of World's Best Science Fiction: 1968. Its title on jacket and title page is simply "World's Best Science Fiction". As noted on the jacket front flap, "World's Best Science Fiction is an annual collection first published in America in 1965. This current volume is the first to be published in this country."
- At the bottom of the title page is the publication year "1969".
- "Copyright (c), 1968" and ISBN "575 00291 3" on the copyright page.
- Price "30/- net" on jacket front flap.
- Wollheim & Carr's "Introduction" is credited to "The Editors".
- Note that OCLC/WorldCat includes the publication year 1969 in the title.
External IDs:
- OCLC/WorldCat: 59182156
- Open Library: OL20782033M
- Reginald-1: 02659B

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Anthology Title: World's Best Science Fiction • [World's Best SF • 4] • anthology by Terry Carr and Donald A. Wollheim (variant of World's Best Science Fiction: 1968 1968)

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7 • Introduction (World's Best Science Fiction: 1968) • (1968) • essay by Terry Carr and Donald A. Wollheim
9 • See Me Not • (1967) • novelette by Richard Wilson
47 • Driftglass • (1967) • short story by Samuel R. Delany
65 • Ambassador to Verdammt • (1967) • short story by Colin Kapp
84 • The Man Who Never Was • (1967) • short story by R. A. Lafferty
93 • The Billiard Ball • (1967) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
113 • Hawksbill Station • (1967) • novella by Robert Silverberg
161 • The Number You Have Reached • (1967) • short story by Thomas M. Disch
170 • The Man Who Loved the Faioli • (1967) • short story by Roger Zelazny
178 • Population Implosion • (1967) • novelette by Andrew J. Offutt
194 • I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream • (1967) • short story by Harlan Ellison
209 • The Sword Swallower • [Ben Jolsen / Chameleon Corps] • (1967) • novelette by Ron Goulart
238 • Coranda • (1967) • novelette by Keith Roberts
258 • Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne • [Institute for Impure Science] • (1967) • short story by R. A. Lafferty
269 • Handicap • [Known Space] • (1967) • novelette by Larry Niven (variant of The Handicapped)
293 • Full Sun • (1967) • short story by Brian W. Aldiss
305 • It's Smart to Have an English Address • (1967) • short story by D. G. Compton

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Publication: World's Best Science Fiction

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