The best science fiction of the year.
By: Terry Carr, editor.
Contributors: Carr, Terry.
Edition: [Book club ed.].
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 1979
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Science fiction, American
Notes: "A Del Rey book."

Twelve stories originally published in 1978.
Table of contents: title: Varley, J.  The barbie murders.; title: Benford, G., Laidlaw, M.  A hiss of dragon.; title: Leiber, F.  Black glass.; title: Kingsbury, D.  To bring in the steel.; title: Watson, I.  The very slow time machine.; title: Ing, D.  Devil you don't know.; title: Ellison, H.  Count the clock that tells the time.; title: Vinge, J. D.  View from a height.; title: Schenck, H.  The morphology of the Kirkham wreck.; title: Eklund, G.  Vermeer's window.; title: Disch, T. D.  The man who had no idea.; title: Kelly, J. P.  Death therapy.; title: Recommended reading, 1978 (p. [304]-305).; title: Brown, C. N.  The science fiction year.