The Best Science Fiction Of The Year #3 by Terry Carr

Terry Carr's Acclaimed 1974 Anthology Collecting Hugo and Nebula Award-Winning Sci-Fi

First published in 1974 as a mass-market paperback by Ballantine Books, The Best Science Fiction of the Year #3 is a landmark anthology edited by legendary genre editor Terry Carr, compiling eleven of the finest speculative fiction stories published in 1973.

Widely regarded by historians and collectors as one of the most powerful single-volume "Year's Best" collections ever assembled, this volume gathers multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning masterpieces. Standout selections include Ursula K. Le Guin's haunting philosophical parable "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," Harlan Ellison's explosive Hugo winner "The Deathbird," Gene Wolfe's Nebula-winning psychological novella "The Death of Doctor Island," Vonda N. McIntyre's Nebula winner "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" (the story that spawned her celebrated novel Dreamsnake), and James Tiptree, Jr.'s groundbreaking feminist tale "The Women Men Don't See," alongside stories by Robert Silverberg, Fritz Leiber, and Michael Bishop.

Why You'll Love This Book

A crown jewel for vintage paperback collectors and short fiction connoisseurs, The Best Science Fiction of the Year #3 captures science fiction during one of its most innovative decades. Readers who love premier SF anthologies like Gardner Dozois's Year's Best Science Fiction, Damon Knight's Orbit, Isaac Asimov's anthologies, and works by Philip K. Dick, Arthur C. Clarke, and Ray Bradbury will find this collection essential.