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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (paperback)

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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
1976

Originally published
  
1976

Publisher
  
The 1976 Annual World's Best SF httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediaen44dAnn

Series
  
The Annual World’s Best SF

Genres
  
Science Fiction, Anthology

Similar
  
Donald A Wollheim books, World's Best Science Fiction books, Anthology books

The 1976 Annual World's Best SF is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha, the fifth volume in a series of nineteen. It was first published in paperback by DAW Books in May 1976, followed by a hardcover edition issued in August of the same year by the same publisher as a selection of the Science Fiction Book Club. For the hardcover edition the original cover art of Jack Gaughan was replaced by a new cover painting by Chet Jezierski. The paperback edition was reissued by DAW in December 1981 under the variant title Wollheim's World's Best SF: Series FIve, this time with cover art by Oliviero Berni. A British hardcover edition was published by Dennis Dobson in March 1979 under the variant title The World's Best SF 3.

Contents

The book collects ten novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introduction by Wollheim. The stories were previously published in 1974 and 1975 in the magazines The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Analog, Amazing Science Fiction, and Galaxy, and the anthologies New Worlds 8 and Stopwatch.

Contents

  • "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)
  • "The Custodians" (Richard Cowper)
  • Awards

    The anthology placed seventh in the 1977 Locus Poll Award for Best Anthology.

    "Catch That Zeppelin!" won the 1976 Nebula Award for Best Short Story and the 1976 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, and placed eleventh in the 1976 Locus Poll Award for Best Short Story.

    "The Storms of Windhaven" was nominated for the 1975 Nebula Award for Best Novella and the 1976 Hugo Award for Best Novella, and placed first in the 1976 Locus Poll Award for Best Novella.

    "Allegiances" placed eighth in the 1976 Locus Poll Award for Best Novella.

    "Child of All Ages" was nominated for the 1975 Nebula Award for Best Short Story and the 1976 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, and placed third in the 1976 Locus Poll Award for Best Short Story.

    "The Custodians" was nominated for the 1975 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and the 1976 Hugo Award for Best Novella, and placed sixth in the 1976 Locus Poll Award for Best Novella.

    References

    The 1976 Annual World's Best SF Wikipedia


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