The Best Science Fiction Of The Year

This is the first of Terry Carr’s annual “Best of the Year” anthologies, collecting works published in 1971. Introduction by Carr, plus the following stories: Occam's Scalpel by Theodore Sturgeon; The Queen of Air and Darkness by Poul Anderson; In Entropy's Jaws by Robert Silverberg; The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World by Philip José Farmer; A Meeting With Medusa by Arthur C. Clarke; The Frayed String on the Stretched Forefinger of Time by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.; How Can We Sink When We Can Fly? by Alexei Panshin; No Direction Home by Norman Spinrad; Vaster Than Empires and More Slow by Ursula K. Le Guin; All the Last Wars at Once by George Alec Effinger; The Fourth Profession by Larry Niven.