Editors | Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
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Cover artist | Davis Meltzer |
Language | English |
Series | World's Best Science Fiction |
Genre | Science fiction |
Publisher | Ace Books |
Publication date | 1971 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (paperback) |
Pages | 349 |
Preceded by | World's Best Science Fiction: 1970 |
Followed by | The 1972 Annual World's Best SF The Best Science Fiction of the Year |
World's Best Science Fiction: 1971 is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr, the seventh volume in a series of seven. It was first published in paperback by Ace Books in 1971, followed by a hardcover edition issued in September of the same year by the same publisher as a selection of the Science Fiction Book Club. It was followed in 1972 by The 1972 Annual World's Best SF, edited by Wollheim, and The Best Science Fiction of the Year, edited by Carr, the first volumes of two separate successor series,
The book collects fifteen novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introduction by the editors. Most of the stories were previously published in 1970 in the magazines Galaxy Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Amazing Science Fiction, If, Worlds of Tomorrow, and Fantastic, the anthologies Orbit 7 and Quark/1, and the collection Parsecs and Parables. One piece (The Last Time Around) had also been previously published in 1968 in the United Kingdom in the anthology New Writings in SF 12.