The Best Science Fiction of the Year # 2

by Terry Carr

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345033124
• ISBN13: 9780345033123
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Ballantine 1973
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

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An anthology that includes Joe Haldeman's brilliant 'Hero' is certainly worth grabbing, and this also has 'The Fifth Head of Cerberus' and 'Nobody's' home on top of that, but quite a fair bit of ordinary drags this one down. Terry Carr 02 : The Meeting - Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth Terry Carr 02 : Nobody's Home - Joanna Russ Terry Carr 02 : Fortune Hunter - Poul Anderson Terry Carr 02 : The Fifth Head of Cerberus - Gene Wolfe Terry Carr 02 : Caliban - Robert Silverberg Terry Carr 02 : Conversational Mode - Grahame Leman Terry Carr 02 : Their Thousandth Season - Edward Bryant Terry Carr 02 : Eurema's Dam - R. A. Lafferty Terry Carr 02 : Zero Gee - Ben Bova Terry Carr 02 : Sky Blue - Alexei and Cory Panshin Terry Carr 02 : Miss Omega Raven - Naomi Mitchison Terry Carr 02 : Patron of the Arts - William Rotsler Terry Carr 02 : Grasshopper Time - Gordon Eklund Terry Carr 02 : Hero - Joe Haldeman Terry Carr 02 : When We Went to See the End of the World - Robert Silverberg Terry Carr 02 : Painwise - James Tiptree Jr. Brain surgery decision. 3.5 out of 5 Only smart girls at parties, please. 4.5 out of 5 Rather be bush. 3.5 out of 5 Cheap clone kid chops clone dad, convict time done proves chip off the old research block. 4.5 out of 5 Sorry, none for you prettyboy. 3 out of 5 Psychiatry program. 2.5 out of 5 Breasting wrong memory. 3 out of 5 Last dolt good with bots. 3.5 out of 5 More than Mile High manipulation. 3.5 out of 5 Landlord, evict 'em. 2.5 out of 5 Corvidae superior. 3.5 out of 5 3-D disappearance. 3.5 out of 5 Half human hunt. 3 out of 5 "...Then some bright lad in the General Assembly decided that we ought to field an army of footsoldiers to guard the portal planets of the nearer collapsars. This led to the Elite Conscription Act of 1996 and the most elitely conscripted army in the history of warfare." 5 out of 5 Apocalypso touristo. 3 out of 5 Nociception not for pod people. 3.5 out of 5 3.5 out of 5