The Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels. Ninth Series. ed T.E. Dikty. 1958.
Contents only.
Reviewing short SF since 2000
The year’s bumper double-issue, with a nice cover (certainly leagues ahead of the dire cover
In recent months I’ve been reading Analog in digital format on my palmtop, courtesy of
Pele. Poul Anderson. Pele is arguably the greatest footballer (US: soccer player) who ever lived,
Stories by : Gerald Kersh, R.A. Lafferty, Harry Harrison, Jack Finney, R.C. Fitzpatrick, John Brunner, Fritz Leiber, Poul Anderson, Vance Aandahl, James White, Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison, William F. Nolan, Arnold M. Auerbach, Russell Baker, J.G. Ballard, William Sambrot, George Whitley, Brian Cleve, Fredric Brown, Mark Clifton, Mack Reynolds, Frederik Pohl, Bertrand Russell, Edward Wellen, Zenna Henderson, Karen Anderson, Gordon R. Dickson. (Contents only)
Stories by : Clifford D Simak, Hayford Peirce, Joan D. and Vernor Vinge, Liz Hufford, P.J. Plauger, Phyllis Eisenstein, Poul Anderson, Robert Hoskins, Stephen Robinett
Stories by : Alfred Bester, Clifford D Simak, Cogswell Thomas, Edward Wellen, George R. R. Martin, Kate Wilhelm, Michael Kurland, Norman Spinrad, Poul Anderson, R.A. Lafferty, Robert F. Young, Theodore R. Cogswell, Thomas N. Scortia.
Stories by : Philip Jose Farmer, Robert Silverberg, James Tiptree Jr., David M. Locke, Harry Harrison, Thomas N. Scortia, Theodore Sturgeon, Burt K. Filer, Harlan Ellison and A. E. Van Vogt, A. Lentini, Poul Anderson, W. MacFarlane, R. A. Lafferty, B. Alan Burhoe, Larry Niven . (Contents only).
Stories by : Ben Bova, Edward Bryant, Frederik Pohl and CM Kornbluth, Gene Wolfe., Gordon Eklund, Grahame Leman, James Tiptree Jr, Joanna Russ, Joe W. Haldeman, Naomi Mitchison, Poul Anderson, R.A. Lafferty, Robert Silverberg, William Rotsler.
Stories by : Alexei Panshin, Arthur C Clarke, George Alec Effinger, Larry Niven, Lloyd Biggle Jr, Philip Jose Farmer, Poul Anderson, Robert Silverberg, Theodore Sturgeon, Ursula K. Le Guin.
Stories by : Allen M. Steele, Brian Stableford, Dan Simmons, David Marusek, Geoff Ryman, Greg Egan, Ian R. Macleod, James Patrick Kelly, Joe Haldeman, John Kessel, Mary Rosenblum, Maureen F. McHugh, Michael F. Flynn, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Pat Cadigan, Paul J. McAuley, Poul Anderson, Robert Reed, Terry Bisson, Ursula K. Le Guin, William Sanders.
Stories by : Kim Stanley Robinson, George Florance-Guthridge, Jack Dann, William Gibson, Timothy Robert Sullivan
Poul Anderson, Gardner Dozois, Michael Bishop, John Varley.
Stories by : Arthur C Clarke, Fredrik Pohl, Gene Wolfe., Harlan Ellison, Joanna Russ, Poul Anderson, Robert Silverberg, William Rostler.
Stories by : Doris Pitkin Buck, Edgar Pangborn, Gardner R Dozois, George Zebrowski, Joanna Russ, Kate Wilhelm, Katherine Maclean, Poul Anderson, R.A. Lafferty, Robert Silverberg, Stephen Goldin.
This little beauty beckoned at me from the shelves of a second-hand bookshop in Colchester
Goat Song. Poul Anderson. Originally in : The Magazine of Fantasy & Science FIction, Far
After co-editing a Year’s Best series with Terry Carr for several years, the pair went
I am holding off on reading this volume, which I managed to get a copy of in 2002 on eBay. For the moment, here are the contents, and some story summaries for those stories read in other volumes.