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Country United States Publication date 1965 Pages 288 pp. Genre Science Fiction | 3.8/5 Goodreads Language English Media type Print (paperback) Originally published 1965 Publisher Ace Books | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Series World's Best Science Fiction Followed by World's Best Science Fiction: 1966 Similar Terry Carr books, World's Best Science Fiction books, Science Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World's Best Science Fiction: 1965 is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr, the first volume in a series of seven. It was first published in paperback by Ace Books in 1965. It was reprinted by the same publisher in 1970 under the alternate title World's Best Science Fiction: First Series.
The book collects seventeen novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introduction by the editors. Most of the stories were previously published in 1964 in the magazines The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Galaxy Magazine, Analog Science Fact -> Science Fiction, Amazing Stories, New Worlds SF, and If, and the collection Vampires, Ltd.; one or two others were published for the first time in the collection.