The Best Science Fiction of the Year

Titles in bold are on the Classics of Science Fiction Short Stories v2 list.

Title↥ Author/Editor Year Citations Reviews
"All the Last Wars at Once" George Alec Effinger 1971
3
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1972The Best Science Fiction of the Year edited by Terry Carr
1978Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick
"The Fourth Profession" Larry Niven 1971
3
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1972The 1972 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1972The Best Science Fiction of the Year edited by Terry Carr
"The Frayed String on the Stretched Forefinger of Time" Lloyd Biggle, Jr. 1971
1
1972The Best Science Fiction of the Year edited by Terry Carr
"How Can We Sink When We Can Fly?" Alexei Panshin 1971
1
1972The Best Science Fiction of the Year edited by Terry Carr
"In Entropy's Jaws" Robert Silverberg 1971
1
1972The Best Science Fiction of the Year edited by Terry Carr
"A Meeting with Medusa" Arthur C. Clarke 1971
9
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1972The Best Science Fiction of the Year edited by Terry Carr
1972Best SF: 1971 edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss
1983The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1986The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr
1989The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"No Direction Home" Norman Spinrad 1971
3
1972The Best Science Fiction of the Year edited by Terry Carr
1972Best SF: 1971 edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
"Occam's Scalpel" Theodore Sturgeon 1971
4
1972The 1972 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1972The Best Science Fiction of the Year edited by Terry Carr
1972Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year edited by Lester del Rey
1986Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl
"The Queen of Air and Darkness" Poul Anderson 1971
9
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1972The Best Science Fiction of the Year edited by Terry Carr
1980The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1986The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World" Philip José Farmer 1971
3
1972The Best Science Fiction of the Year edited by Terry Carr
1972Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year edited by Lester del Rey
1983The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
"Vaster Than Empires and More Slow" Ursula K. Le Guin 1971
9
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1972The Best Science Fiction of the Year edited by Terry Carr
1975Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes
1983Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology edited by Eric S. Rabkin
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2016The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
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