Annual World's Best SF HC (1972-1990 DAW Books) comic books 1970-1985

1972 - 1st printing. Includes: "Introduction" (Donald A. Wollheim); "The Fourth Profession" (Larry Niven); "Gleepsite" (Joanna Russ); "The Bear with the Knot on His Tail" (Stephen Tall); "The Sharks of Pentreath" (Michael G. Coney); "A Little Knowledge" (Poul Anderson); "Real-Time World" (Christopher Priest); "All Pieces of a River Shore" (R. A. Lafferty); "With Friends Like These . . ." (Alan Dean Foster); "Aunt Jennie's Tonic" (Leonard Tushnet); "Timestorm" (Eddy C. Bertin); "Transit of Earth" (Arthur C. Clarke); "Gehenna" (K. M. O'Donnell); "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty" (Harlan Ellison); and "Occam's Scalpel" (Theodore Sturgeon). Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 302 pages, Text Only.

NOTE: For previous volumes see World's Best Science Fiction HC (1943-1971)

1973 - 1st printing. Includes: "Introduction" (Donald A. Wollheim); "Goat Song" (Poul Anderson); "The Man Who Walked Home" (James Tiptree, Jr.); "Oh, Valinda!" (Michael G. Coney); "The Gold at the Starbow's End" (Frederik Pohl); "To Walk a City's Street" (Clifford D. Simak); "Rorqual Maru" (T. J. Bass); "Changing Woman" (W. Macfarlane); "'Willie's Blues'" (Robert J. Tilley); "Long Shot" (Vernor Vinge); and "Thus Love Betrays Us" (Phyllis MacLennon). Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 254 pages, Text Only.

1974 - 1st printing. Includes: "Introduction" (Donald A. Wollheim); "A Supplicant in Space" (Robert Sheckley); "Parthen" (R. A. Lafferty); "Doomship" (Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson); "Weed of Time" (Norman Spinrad); "A Modest Genius" (translation of "Skromnyi Geniy", 1965) (Vadim Shefner); "The Deathbird" (Harlan Ellison); "Evane" (E. C. Tubb); "Moby, Too" (Gordon Eklund); "Death and Designation Among the Asadi" (Michael Bishop); and "Construction Shack" (Clifford D. Simak). Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 280 pages, Text Only.

1975 - 1st printing. Cover by Richard Corben. Includes: "Introduction" (Donald A. Wollheim); "A Song for Lya" (George R. R. Martin); "Deathsong" (Sydney J. Van Scyoc); "A Full Member of the Club" (Bob Shaw); "The Sun's Tears" (Brian M. Stableford); "The Gift of Garigolli" (C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl); "The Four-Hour Fugue" (Alfred Bester); "Twig" (Gordon R. Dickson); "Cathadonian Odyssey" (Michael Bishop); "The Bleeding Man" (Craig Strete); and "Stranger in Paradise" (Isaac Asimov). Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 270 pages, Text Only.

1976 - 1st printing. Includes: "Introduction" (Donald A. Wollheim); "Catch That Zeppelin!" (Fritz Leiber); "The Peddler's Apprentice" (Joan D. Vinge and Vernor Vinge); "The Bees of Knowledge" (Barrington J. Bayley); "The Storms of Windhaven" (George R. R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle); "The Engineer and the Executioner" (Brian M. Stableford); "Allegiances" (Michael Bishop); "Child of All Ages" (P. J. Plauger); "Helbent 4" (Stephen Robinett); "The Protocols of the Elders of Britain" (John Brunner); and "The Custodians" (Richard Cowper). Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 304 pages, Text Onlt.

1977 - 1st printing. Includes: "Introduction" (Donald A. Wollheim); "Appearance of Life" (Brian W. Aldiss); "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank" (John Varley); "Those Good Old Days of Liquid Fuel" (Michael G. Coney); "The Hertford Manuscript" (Richard Cowper); "Natural Advantage" (Lester del Rey); "The Bicentennial Man" (Isaac Asimov); "The Cabinet of Oliver Naylor" (Barrington J. Bayley); "My Boat" (Joanna Russ); "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" (James Tiptree, Jr.); and "I See You" (Damon Knight). Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 280 pages, Text Only.

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1978 - 1st printing. Includes: "Introduction" (Donald A. Wollheim); "In the Hall of the Martian Kings" (John Varley); "A Time to Live" (Joe Haldeman); "The House of Compassionate Sharers" (Michael Bishop); "Particle Theory" (Edward Bryant); "The Taste of the Dish and the Savor of the Day" (John Brunner); "Jeffty Is Five" (Harlan Ellison); "The Screwfly Solution" (Raccoona Sheldon); "Eyes of Amber" (Joan D. Vinge); "Child of the Sun" (James E. Gunn); and "Brother" (Clifford D. Simak). Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 270 pages, Text Only.

1979 - 1st printing. Includes: "Introduction" (Donald A. Wollheim); "Come to the Party" (Frank Herbert and F. M. Busby); "Creator" (David Lake); "Dance Band on the Titanic" (Jack L. Chalker); "Cassandra" (C. J. Cherryh); "In Alien Flesh" (Gregory Benford); "SQ" (Ursula K. Le Guin); "The Persistence of Vision" (John Varley); "We Who Stole the Dream" (James Tiptree, Jr.); "Scattershot" (Greg Bear); and "Carruthers' Last Stand" (Dan Henderson). Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 268 pages, Text Only.

1980 - 1st printing. Includes: "Introduction" (Donald A. Wollheim); "The Way of Cross and Dragon" (George R. R. Martin); "The Thirteenth Utopia" (Somtow Sucharitkul); "Options" (John Varley); "Unaccompanied Sonata" (Orson Scott Card); "The Story Writer" (Richard Wilson); "Daisy, in the Sun" (Connie Willis); "The Locusts" (Larry Niven and Steven Barnes); "The Thaw" (Tanith Lee); "Out There Where the Big Ships Go" (Richard Cowper); "Can These Bones Live?" (Ted Reynolds); and "The Extraordinary Voyages of Amélie Bertrand" (Joanna Russ). Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 284 pages, Text Only.

1981 - 1st printing. Includes: "Introduction" (Donald A. Wollheim); "Variation on a Theme from Beethoven" (Sharon Webb); "Beatnik Bayou" (John Varley); "Elbow Room" (Marion Zimmer Bradley); "The Ugly Chickens" (Howard Waldrop); "Prime Time" (Norman Spinrad); "Nightflyers" (George R. R. Martin); "A Spaceship Built of Stone" (Lisa Tuttle); "Window" (Bob Leman); "The Summer Sweet, the Winter Wild" (Michael G. Coney); and "Achronos" (Lee Killough). Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 252 pages, Text Only.

1982 - 1st printing. Includes: "Introduction" (Donald A. Wollheim); "Blind Spot" (Jayge Carr); "Highliner" (C. J. Cherryh); "The Pusher" (John Varley); "Polyphemus" (Michael Shea); "Absent Thee from Felicity Awhile . . ." (Somtow Sucharitkul); "Out of the Everywhere" (James Tiptree, Jr.); "Slac//" (Michael P. Kube-McDowell); "The Cyphertone" (S. C. Sykes); "Through All Your Houses Wandering" (Ted Reynolds); and "The Last Day of Christmas" (David J. Lake). Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 304 pages, Text Only.

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1983 - 1st printing. Includes: "Introduction" (Donald A. Wollheim); "The Scourge" (James White); "A Letter from the Clearys" (Connie Willis); "Farmer on the Dole" (Frederik Pohl); "Playing the Game" (Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann); "Pawns Gambit" (Timothy Zahn); "The Comedian" (Timothy R. Sullivan); "Written in Water" (Tanith Lee); "Souls" (Joanna Russ); "Swarm" (Bruce Sterling); and "Peg-Man" (Rudy Rucker). Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 256 pages, Text Only.

1984 - 1st printing. Includes: "Introduction" (Donald A. Wollheim); "Blood Music" (Greg Bear); "Potential" (Isaac Asimov); "Knight of Shallows" (Rand B. Lee); "Spending a Day at the Lottery Fair" (Frederik Pohl); "In the Face of My Enemy" (Joseph H. Delaney); "The Nanny" (Thomas Wylde); "The Leaves of October" (Don Sakers); "As Time Goes By" (Tanith Lee); "The Harvest of Wolves" (Mary R. Gentle); and "Homefaring" (Robert Silverberg). Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 256 pages, Text Only.

1985 - 1st printing. Includes: "Introduction" (Donald A. Wollheim); "The Picture Man" (John Dalmas); "Cash Crop" (Connie Willis); "We Remember Babylon" (Ian Watson); "What Makes Us Human" (Stephen R. Donaldson); "Salvador" (Lucius Shepard); "Press Enter []" (John Varley); "The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything" (George Alec Effinger); "Bloodchild" (Octavia E. Butler); "The Coming of the Goonga" (Gary W. Shockley); and "Medra" (Tanith Lee). Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 302 pages, Text Only.