The 1972 Annual World's Best SF
Categories: Books, Literature & Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

The 1972 Annual World's Best SF. Donald A. Wollheim, Editor, with Arthur W. Saha. 1st Edition. Daw Books. Science Fiction Book Club. Hardcover in dust jacket with cover art by Frank Frazetta. An anthology of science fiction short stories and novelettes selected from among those published in periodicals and short story collections in the previous year. Along with an introduction by the editor, the contents include: The Fourth Profession by Larry Niven from Quark/4; Gleepsite by Joanna Russ from Orbit 9; The Bear with the Knot on His Tail by Stephen Tall from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction; The Sharks of Pentreath by Michael G. Coney from Galaxy; A Little Knowledge by Poul Anderson from Analog; Real-Time World by Christopher Priest from New Writings in SF; All Pieces of a River Shore by R. A. Lafferty from Orbit 8; With Friends Like These by Alan Dean Foster from Analog; Aunt Jennie's Tonic by Leonard Tushnet from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction; Timestorm by Eddy C. Bertin from De Achtjaarlijkse; Transit of Earth by Arthur C. Clarke from Playboy; Gehenna by Barry Malzberg from Galaxy; One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty by Harlan Ellison from Orbit 8; and Occam's Scalpel by Theodore Sturgeon from If.


Publisher: Daw Books; First Edition (May 1, 1972)
Language: English
Hardcover: 296 pages
ISBN 10: 0879970057
ISBN 13: 978-0879970055
Item Weight: 8 ounces
Dimensions: 7 x 1 x 5 inches