Language English Pages 207 pp OCLC 226174718 Genre Science Fiction Country United States of America | Publication date 1969 ISBN 0-7221-4335-4 Originally published 1969 Publisher Sphere Books | |
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Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Editors Harry Harrison, Brian Aldiss Similar Brian Aldiss books, Science Fiction books | ||
Best SF: 1968 (also known as The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 2) is the second on a series of annual anthologies of science fiction stories edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss, first published in a British edition in January 1969 by Sphere Books. The first American (and first hardcover) edition was released later that year by Putnam, with a Berkley paperback following shortly thereafter. Severn House issued a British hardcover edition in 1977.
Contents
Contents
"Final War" was originally published under Malzberg's "K. M. O'Donnell" pseudonym.
Reception
Joanna Russ described the anthology as "a fair mixed bag of stories, framed by an Introduction and Afterword that indirectly--and unfortunately--lead one to expect more from the stories than they manage to give." She noted that the editors' story selection "leans to the obvious and toward stories which have one good, clear, conventional idea." P. Schuyler Miller, reviewing it for Analog, found the book "down a notch" from the previous year's volume, faulting the influence of the "New Wave".