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Editor:	Donald A. Wollheim
Co-editors:	Terry Carr
Title:	World's Best Science Fiction
Publisher:	Victor Gollancz
Country:	UK
Date:	1969
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
ISBN-10:	575002913
First Published:	1968
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First edition.
320 pages.
First published in the US in 1968 by Ace books as World's Best Science Fiction: 1968.
Anthology of nine short stories, six novelettes and one novella.

Introduction by Terry Carr and Donald A. Wollheim.
"See Me Not", novelette by Richard Wilson. First published in sf Impulse. Vol. 1 No. 12, February 1967.
"Driftglass", short story by Samuel R. Delany. If. Vol. 17 No. 6, June 1967.
"Ambassador to Verdammt" short story by Colin Kapp. Analog Science Fiction—Science Fact. Vol. 79 No. 2, April 1967.
"The Man Who Never Was", short story by R. A. Lafferty. Magazine of Horror. Vol. 3 No. 4, Summer 1967.
"The Billiard Ball", novelette by Isaac Asimov. If Vol. 17 No. 3, March 1967.
"Hawksbill Station", novella by Robert Silverberg. Galaxy Science Fiction. Vol. 25 No. 6, August 1967.
"The Number You Have Reached", short story by Thomas M. Disch. sf Impulse. Vol. 1 No. 12, February 1967.
"The Man Who Loved the Faioli", short story by Roger Zelazny. Galaxy Science Fiction. Vol. 25 No. 5, June 1967.
"Population Implosion". novelette by Andrew J. Offutt. If. Vol. 17 No. 7, July 1967.
"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream", short story by Harlan Ellison. If Vol. 17 No. 3, March 1967.
"The Sword Swallower", novelette by Ron Goulart. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Vol. 33 No.5,
November 1967.
"Coranda", novelette by Keith Roberts. New Worlds SF. Vol. 50, No. 170 January 1967.
"Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne", short story by R. A. Lafferty. Galaxy Science Fiction. Vol. 25 No. 3, February 1967.
"Handicap", novelette by Larry Niven. Galaxy Science Fiction. Vol 25 No.3, February 1967.
"Full Sun", short story by Brian W. Aldiss. "Orbit 2" (1967).
"It's Smart to Have an English Address", short story by D. G. Compton. sf Impulse. Vol. 1 No. 12, February 1967.

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ppint. ● 10th Mar 2023		aka ''world's best science fiction fourth series'' (ace mmpb reissue 1970), q.v. aka ''the world's best sf no.1'' (sphere uk p/b 1971), q.v. (the title as on the sphere p/b's title page; there is no ''no.'' on the cover)



ppint. ● 20th Sep 2022		brian aldiss' short story, ''full sun'', was first published in the original anthology ''orbit 2'' ed. damon knight (1967), q.v., aka ''orbit two'' panther / granada (uk p/b 1970), q.v.



ppint. ● 20th Sep 2022		victor gollancz h/cvr first printing, first uk edition, first h/cvr edition reprint anthology of one novella, six novelettes and nine short stories, nf introduction by the editors cover d-j art (none: typographical black and magenta on gollancz yellow field) cover price 30/- 320pp. including titles, indica, table-of-contents etc, end pp. bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards the number in the isbn10 field is the nine-digit sbn actually borne in the indica: an isbn is trivially constructable from this, but the book and d-j bear none such.

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