Best SF » Wollheim http://bestsf.net 12 years of reviewing short SF Sun, 19 May 2013 09:34:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 The 1990 Annual World’s Best SF. edited by Donald A. Wollheim. DAW, 1990 http://bestsf.net/the-1990-annual-worlds-best-sf-edited-by-donald-a-wollheim-daw-1990/ http://bestsf.net/the-1990-annual-worlds-best-sf-edited-by-donald-a-wollheim-daw-1990/#comments Tue, 25 Feb 2003 16:04:57 +0000 Mark Watson http://www.bestsf.net/?p=2095  Gregory Benford  Alphas 
 Brian Stableford  The Magic Bullet 
 Brian W. Aldiss  North of the Abyss 
 Robert Silverberg  Chiprunner 
 James Morrow  Abe Lincoln in McDonald’s 
 Barrington J. Bayley  Death Ship 
 Lisa Tuttle  In Translation 
 Robert Silverberg  A Sleep and a Forgetting 
 Judith Moffett  Not Without Honor 
 Orson Scott Card  Dogwalker 
 Lucius Shepard  Surrender 
 J.G. Ballard  War Fever

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  Steven Gould  Peaches for Mad Molly 
  John Shirley  Shaman 
  George Alec Effinger  Schrodingers Kitten 
  Ian Watson  The Flies of Memory 
  Kristine Kathryn Rusch  Skin Deep 
  Tanith Lee  A Madonna of the Machine 
  Frederik Pohl  Waiting for the Olympians 
  B.W. Clough  Ain’t Nothin’ But a Hound Dog 
  Jack L Chalker  Adrift Among the Ghosts 
  Geoffrey A. Landis  Ripples in the Dirac Sea

]]> http://bestsf.net/the-1989-annual-worlds-best-sf-edited-by-donald-a-wollheim-daw-1989/feed/ 0 The 1988 Annual World’s Best SF. edited by Donald A. Wollheim. DAW, 1989 http://bestsf.net/the-1988-annual-worlds-best-sf-edited-by-donald-a-wollheim-daw-1989/ http://bestsf.net/the-1988-annual-worlds-best-sf-edited-by-donald-a-wollheim-daw-1989/#comments Tue, 25 Feb 2003 16:03:44 +0000 Mark Watson http://www.bestsf.net/?p=2090 The Pardoner’s Tale. Robert Silverberg.
Originally in : Playboy, June 1987.

Entities, aliens with attitude, take over Earth, leaving many of its inhabitants doomed to forced-labour of one kind or another. ‘The Pardoner’ has the electronic wherewithal to assist a lucky few to avoid the worst fates.

Rachel in Love. Pat Murphy.
Originally in : Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, April 1987

A scientist implanted his dead daughter’s brain pattern onto one of the chimps he has been raising and studying. The chimp, to all intents and purposed the daughter, battles for her survival.

America. Orson Scott Card.
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A young man and very old Amazonian virgin come together to create a saviour for the Americas.

Crying in the Rain. Tanith Lee.
Originally in : Other Edens

Post-holocaust : acid rain (and how!), short life spans, with the lucky ones living in bubble-domes.

The Sun Spider. Lucius Shepard.
Originally in : Asimovs

Multi-perspective on a scientist who finds life on the face of the sun, and who becomes part of that life.

Angel. Pat Cadigan.
Originally in : Asimovs, May 1987

Angel is an outcast from another planet, who befriends a human heamaphrodite. Angel is finally hunted down by a fellow ET, leaving the hero/ine to find other such outcasts.

Forever Yours, Anna. Kate Wilhelm.
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A graphologist gets involved, intimately, with a love affair across time.

Second Going. James Tiptree, Jr.
Originally in : Universe 17

In the face of difficulties, humanity encounters a deity-like race whom they follow away from the Earth.

Dinosaurs. Walter Jon Williams.
Originally in : Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, August 1987

Interplanetary peace negotiations.

All Fall Down. Don Sakers.
Originally in : Analog

The Hlutr, a race of tree-hilfs, come to the aid of humanoids.

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Dorig Egan Timerider
Pat Cadigan Pretty Boy Crossover
R&R Lucius Shepard
Suzette Haden Elgin Lo, How an Oak E’er Blooming
Jerry Meredith and D. E. Smirl Dream in a Bottle
Tanith Lee Into Gold
Howard Waldrop The Lions are Asleep this Night
Robert Silverberg Against Babylon
Damon Knight Strangers on Paradise

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Originally in : Analog, May 1985

Ian Watson. On the Dream Channel Panel.
Originally in : Amazing, March 1985

Gardner Dozois, Jack Dann and Michael Swanwick. The Gods of Mars.
Originally in : Omni

Lucius Shepard. The Jaguar Hunter.
Originally in : The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1985

Robert Silverberg. Sailing to Byzantium.
Originally in : Asimovs, February 1985

Jayge Carr. Webrider.
Originally in : Omni

Harlan Ellison. With virgil Oddum at the East Pole.
Originally in : Media

Connie Willis. The Curse of Kings.
Originally in : Asimovs, March 1985

Frederik Pohl. Fermi and Frost.
Originally in : Asimovs, January 1985

C.J. Cherryh. Pots.
Originally in : Afterwar (ed Janet Morris, Baen, 198

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Connie Willis. Cash Crop.
Ian Watson. We Remember Babylon.
Stephen R. Donaldson What Makes Us Human
Lucius Shepard Salvador
John Varley Press Enter[]
George Alec Effinger The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything
Octavia E. Butler Bloodchild
Gary W. Shockley The Coming of the Goonga
Tanith Lee Medra

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Multiple award-winning modern classic. Vergil Ulam has been experimenting with nano-technology – injecting medically applicable biochips into his bloodstream. The consequences are far beyond his wildest dreams, and the genie is most definitely out of the bottle. 1984 Hugo Best Novelette, and subsequently extended into a novel.

Potential. Isaac Asimov.
Originally in : Asimovs, February 1983

Placed after Greg Bear’s ‘Blood Music’, we see a ‘The King is Dead – Long Live the King’ situation. Asimov’s hoary old Multivac plays a part in seeking telepathic subjects – not a patch on ‘Blood Music’.

Knight of Shallows. Rand B. Lee.
Originally in : Amazing, July 1983

An alternate reality/history murder thriller, with the protagonist chasing an alter ego through murderous timelines.

Spending a Day at the Lottery Fair. Frederik Pohl.
Originally in : The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1983

The American solution to overpopulation proves popular, even though quite radical. However sometimes even the longest of long odds come up.

In the Face of my Enemy. Joseph H. Delaney.
Originally in : Analog, April 1983

The settlement planet of Campbell proves to have a one-way link through which extra-terrestrials are being delivered. K.C.Oma uses his enhanced abilities to help Kimberley Ryan with her ecological survey and the cover-up operation a mining company have over the cairn through which the ETs are being delivered.

The Nanny. Thomas Wylde.
Originally in : Asimovs, July 1984

Eismann holds humanity’s future in the hold of his space ship – deep frozen embryos. Called out of hypersleep due to a malfunction, he has some difficult choices to make in order to ensure that his mission achieves its fundamental aim: seeding life on another planet. The choices he makes are not always the right ones, and some are particularly difficult.

The Leaves of October. Don Sakers.
Originally in : Analog, August 1983

Humanity may be squandering its chance to be accepted into the galactic lifeforce. An aeons old tree makes the ultimate sacrifice in the belief that humanity is worth saving.

As Time Goes By. Tanith Lee.
Originally in : Chrysalis 10

The intricacies of FTL travel are given a very human twist.

The Harvest of Wolves. Mary Gentle.
Originally in : Asimovs, December 1983

Post-revolution and post-crash, an elderly subversive does what is necessary to survive in the harsh society.

Homefaring. Robert Silverberg.
Originally in : Amazing, November 1983

McCulloch is the first person to test out the time travel apparatus. He is catapulted far, far into an amphibious future, into the body of a lobster-like intelligent creature. He becomes reluctant to return.

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A Letter from the Cleary’s. Connie Willis.
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Farmer on the Dole. Frederik Pohl.
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Playing the Game. Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann.
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Pawn’s Gambit. Timothy Zahn.
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The Comedian. Timothy Robert Sullivan.
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Written in Water. Tanith Lee.
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Souls. Joanna Russ.
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Swarm. Bruce Sterling.
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Peg-Man. Rudy Rucker.
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Blind Spot. Jayge Carr.
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Highliner. C.J. Cherryh.
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The Pusher. John Varley.
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Polyphemus. Michael Shea.
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Absent Thee from Felicity Awhile… Somtow Sucharitkul.
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Out of the Everywhere. James Tiptree, Jr.
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SLAC// Michael P. Kube-McDowell.
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The Cyphertone. S.C. Sykes.
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Through All Your Houses Wandering. Ted Reynolds.
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The Last Days of Christmas. David J. Lake.
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Beatnik Bayou. John Varley.
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Elbow Room. Marion Zimmer Bradley.
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The Ugly Chickens. Howard Waldrop.
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Prime Time. Norman Spinrad.
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Nightflyers. George R.R. Martin.
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A Spaceship Built of Stone. Lisa Tuttle.
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Window. Bob Leman.
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The Summer Sweet, the Winter Wild. Michael G. Coney.
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Achronos. Lee Killough.
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