The Best Science Fiction Of The Year 10 Terry Carr Edited Paperback 1981

Description: Very good condition. CREDITS Grotto of the Dancing Deer by Clifford D. Simak. Copyright © 1980 by The Condé Nast Publications Inc. From Analog, April 1980, by permission of the author and his agents, Kirby McCauley Ltd. Scorched Supper on New Niger by Suzy McKee Charnas. Copy- right 1980 by Suzy McKee Charnas. From New Voices III, by permission of the author and her agent, Virginia Kidd. Ginungagap by Michael Swanwick. Copyright © 1980 by TriQuar- terly. From TriQuarterly 49, Fall 1980, by permission of the author and his agent, Virginia Kidd. Frozen Journey by Philip K. Dick. Copyright 1980 by Playboy. From Playboy, December 1980, by permission of the author and his agents, Scott Meredith Literary Agency, Inc., 845 Third Ave., New York, N.Y. 10022. The Ugly Chickens by Howard Waldrop. Copyright © 1980 by Terry Carr. From Universe 10, by permission of the author. Nightflyers by George R. R. Martin. Copyright © 1980 by The Condé Nast Publications Inc. From Analog, April 1980, by permis- sion of the author and his agents, Kirby McCauley Ltd. Beatnik Bayou by John Varley. Copyright © 1980 by John Varley. From New Voices III, by permission of the author and his agents, Kirby McCauley Ltd. Window by Bob Leman. Copyright © 1980 by Mercury Press, Inc. From Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1980, by permission of the author. Tell Us a Story by Zenna Henderson. Copyright © 1980 by Mer- cury Press, Inc. From Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1980, by permission of the author and her agents, Curtis Brown Ltd. Le Croix (The Cross) by Barry Malzberg. Copyright © 1980 by West Coast Poetry Review. From Their Immortal Hearts, by per- mission of the author. Martian Walkabout by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre. Copyright © 1980 by Davis Publications, Inc. From Isaac Asimov's Science Fic- tion Magazine, March 1980, by permission of the author. Slow Music by James Tiptree, Jr. Copyright © 1980 by James Tip- tree, Jr. From Interfaces, by permission of the author. ----------- 3 ----------- Introduction Terry Carr Grotto of the Dancing Deer Clifford D. Simak CONTENTS Scorched Supper on New Niger Suzy McKee Charnas Ginungagap Michael Swanwick Frozen Journey Philip K. Dick The Ugly Chickens Howard Waldrop Nightflyers George R. R. Martin Beatnik Bayou John Varley Window Bob Leman Tell Us a Story Zenna Henderson Le Croix (The Cross) Barry Malzberg Martian Walkabout F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre ----------- 2 ----------- This collection is comprised of works of fiction. Names, resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or the authors' imaginations or are used fictitiously, and any characters, places and incidents are either the product of locales is entirely coincidental. Another Original publication of TIMESCAPE BOOKS A Timescape Book published by POCKET BOOKS, a Simon & Schuster division of GULF & WESTERN CORPORATION 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N.Y. 10020 Copyright © 1981 by Terry Carr All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. For information address Timescape Books, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N.Y. 10020 ISBN: 0-671-42262-6 First Timescape Books printing July, 1981 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 POCKET and colophon are trademarks of Simon & Schuster. Use of the TIMESCAPE trademark under exclusive license from trademark owner. Printed in the U.S.A. ----------- 4 ----------- Slow Music Contents James Tiptree, Ir. The Science Fiction Year Charles N. Brown Recommended Reading-1980 Terry Carr ----------- 5 ----------- INTRODUCTION Terry Carr THERE ARE GREAT CHANGES OCCURRING IN THE science fiction genre, and I'm sorry to say that most of them are bad. The recession has severely curtailed most readers' budgets for entertainment, with the result that book sales have lessened considerably. (As Robert A. Heinlein pointed out years ago, writers are competing for the readers' beer-money.) The situation is made worse by inflation, as production costs have forced publishers to raise the prices of their books. At the end of 1980, paper costs rose by 20 percent, so we'll have to expect further price raises. Fortunately, the recession hasn't hit publishing quite as hard as other fields of entertainment, such as records and movies. A number of record-store chains have been forced out of business, and the movie companies are run- ning scared: 1980's movie releases were lower, in quality than those of any year in recent memory, an appalling proportion of them being sequels to or imitations of proven box-office hits. A similar trend has been evidenced in science fiction, though: bookstore shelves are crowded with sequels, se- ries novels and trilogies. Even the "individual" novels be- ing published now show a much higher proportion of lowest-common-denominator styles and subjects, most of them adventure novels or "hard science". stories. Some of these are excellent-there's nothing innately wrong with these types-but the era of widespread innovation in sci-

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