[The Year's Best S-F (Merril) 10] • The Year's Best SF 10

Here, out there, or beyond, S-F has produced some of the most imaginative fiction in our literature - and Judith Merril has established herself as its premiere anthologist and critic.Her latest collection, the tenth in this consistently excellent series, surpasses all that have gone before. Never have Miss Merril's forays into the realms of available science-fiction yielded as stunning a literary harvest: Romain Gary, Arthur C. Clarke, James T. Farrell, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Fritz Lieber, J.G. Ballard, John D. MacDonald, Alan E. Nourse, Thomas M. Disch and Stephen Becker are just a few of the glittering array that has been selected.This edition of The Year's Best S-F contains more than thirty of the finest examples of science-fiction inventiveness. It is an extraordinary anthology that will stimulate and challenge even the most seasoned science-fiction traveler.Judith Merril, a writer herself, selects the greatest science-fiction and fantasy each year for inclusion in her famous Annual. S-F, more and more, is merging with the mainstream of literature, and her anthologies brilliantly illustrate this trend.Automatic Tiger by Kit ReedThe Carson Effect by Richard WilsonThe Shining Ones by Arthur C. ClarkePacifist by Mack ReynoldsThe New Encyclopaedist by Stephen BeckerThe Legend of Joe Lee by John D. MacDonaldGas Mask by James D. HoustonA Sinister Metamorphosis by Russell BakerSonny by Rick RaphaelThe Last Secret Weapon of the Third Reich by Josef NesvadbaDescending by Thomas M. DischDecadence by Romain GaryBe of Good Cheer by Fritz LieberIt Could Be You by Frank RobertsA Benefactor of Humanity by James T. FarrellSynchromocracy by Hap CawoodThe Search by Bruce SimondsThe Pirokin Effect by Larry EisenbergThe Twerlik by Jack SharkeyA Rose for Ecclesiastes by Roger ZelaznyThe Terminal Beach by J.G. BallardProblem Child by Arthur PorgesThe Wonderful Dog Suit by Donald HallThe Mathenauts by Norman KaganFamily Portrait by Morgan KentThe Red Egg by Jose Maria GironellaThe Power of Positive Thinking by M.E. WhiteA Living Doll by Robert WallaceTraining Talk by David R. BunchA Miracle Too Many by Philip H. Smith and Alan E. NourseThe Last Lonely Man by John BrunnerThe Man Who Found Proteus by Robert RohrerYachid and Yechida by Isaac Bashevis Singer