The Year's Best SF 10

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Here, out there, or beyond, S-F has produced some of the most imaginative fiction in our literature - and Judith Merril has established herself as its premiere anthologist and critic.
Her latest collection, the tenth in this consistently excellent series, surpasses all that have gone before. Never have Miss Merril's forays into the realms of available science-fiction yielded as stunning a literary harvest: Romain Gary, Arthur C. Clarke, James T. Farrell, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Fritz Lieber, J.G. Ballard, John D. MacDonald, Alan E. Nourse, Thomas M. Disch and Stephen Becker are just a few of the glittering array that has been selected.
This edition of The Year's Best S-F contains more than thirty of the finest examples of science-fiction inventiveness. It is an extraordinary anthology that will stimulate and challenge even the most seasoned science-fiction traveler.
Judith Merril, a writer herself, selects the greatest science-fiction and fantasy each year for inclusion in her famous Annual. S-F, more and more, is merging with the mainstream of literature, and her anthologies brilliantly illustrate this trend.
Automatic Tiger by Kit Reed
The Carson Effect by Richard Wilson
The Shining Ones by Arthur C. Clarke
Pacifist by Mack Reynolds
The New Encyclopaedist by Stephen Becker
The Legend of Joe Lee by John D. MacDonald
Gas Mask by James D. Houston
A Sinister Metamorphosis by Russell Baker
Sonny by Rick Raphael
The Last Secret Weapon of the Third Reich by Josef Nesvadba
Descending by Thomas M. Disch
Decadence by Romain Gary
Be of Good Cheer by Fritz Lieber
It Could Be You by Frank Roberts
A Benefactor of Humanity by James T. Farrell
Synchromocracy by Hap Cawood
The Search by Bruce Simonds
The Pirokin Effect by Larry Eisenberg
The Twerlik by Jack Sharkey
A Rose for Ecclesiastes by Roger Zelazny
The Terminal Beach by J.G. Ballard
Problem Child by Arthur Porges
The Wonderful Dog Suit by Donald Hall
The Mathenauts by Norman Kagan
Family Portrait by Morgan Kent
The Red Egg by Jose Maria Gironella
The Power of Positive Thinking by M.E. White
A Living Doll by Robert Wallace
Training Talk by David R. Bunch
A Miracle Too Many by Philip H. Smith and Alan E. Nourse
The Last Lonely Man by John Brunner
The Man Who Found Proteus by Robert Rohrer
Yachid and Yechida by Isaac Bashevis Singer