Barbie Murders by John Varley + More, The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8 edited by Terry Carr Vintage Book Club Edition Hardcover 1978

Barbie Murders by John Varley + More, The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8 edited by Terry Carr Vintage Book Club Edition Hardcover 1978

<Condition is Good+ as Pictured> (normal wear, some markings, toning)

-> The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8 is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Terry Carr, the eighth volume in a series of sixteen. It was first published in paperback by Del Rey Books in July 1979, and in hardcover by the same publisher in conjunction with the Science Fiction Book Club in August 1979. The first British edition was issued by Gollancz in the same year.

The book collects twelve novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introduction, notes and concluding essays by Carr and Charles N. Brown. The stories were previously published in 1978 in the magazines Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Omni, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and the anthologies Andromeda 3, Anticipations, and Universe 8.

Contents
—“Introduction” (Terry Carr)
—“The Barbie Murders” (John Varley)
—“A Hiss of Dragon” (Gregory Benford and Marc Laidlaw)
—“Black Glass” (Fritz Leiber)
—“To Bring in the Steel” (Donald Kingsbury)
—“The Very Slow Time Machine” (Ian Watson)
—“Devil You Don’t Know” (Dean Ing)
—“Count the Clock That Tells the Time” (Harlan Ellison)
—“View from a Height” (Joan D. Vinge)
—“The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck” (Hilbert Schenck)
—“Vermeer’s Window” (Gordon Eklund)
—“The Man Who Had No Idea” (Thomas M. Disch)
—“Death Therapy” (James Patrick Kelly)
—“Recommended Reading - 1978” (Terry Carr)
—“The Science Fiction Year” (Charles N. Brown)


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