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Publication: The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8Publication Record # 652896
Editor: Terry Carr
Date: 1979-07-00
ISBN: 0-345-28083-0 [978-0-345-28083-1]
Publisher: Del Rey / Ballantine
Price:
C$2.75^?C$: Canadian dollar
Pages: xi+372
Format:
pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
Type: ANTHOLOGY
Notes: • "First Edition: July 1979" • Printing not stated, no number line • No cover art • Printed in the US but for the Canadian market; price on the cover is a definite overprint and the US printing was $2.25
External IDs:
- OCLC/WorldCat: 5582612

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Anthology Title: The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8 • [Best SF of the Year • 8] • anthology by Terry Carr

Contents (view Concise Listing)

ix • Introduction (The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8) • essay by Terry Carr
1 • The Barbie Murders • [Anna-Louise Bach] • (1978) • novelette by John Varley
35 • A Hiss of Dragon • (1978) • short story by Gregory Benford and Marc Laidlaw
56 • Black Glass • (1978) • novelette by Fritz Leiber
89 • To Bring in the Steel • (1978) • novelette by Donald Kingsbury
136 • The Very Slow Time Machine • (1978) • novelette by Ian Watson
159 • Devil You Don't Know • [Val Clarke] • (1978) • novelette by Dean Ing
207 • Count the Clock That Tells the Time • (1978) • short story by Harlan Ellison
228 • View from a Height • (1978) • short story by Joan D. Vinge
246 • The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck • (1978) • novelette by Hilbert Schenck
281 • Vermeer's Window • (1978) • short story by Gordon Eklund
298 • The Man Who Had No Idea • (1978) • novelette by Thomas M. Disch
336 • Death Therapy • (1978) • short story by James Patrick Kelly
364 • Recommended Reading - 1978 • essay by Terry Carr
366 • The Science Fiction Year (1978) • essay by Charles N. Brown

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