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The 1972 Annual World's Best SF is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha, the initial volume in a series of nineteen. It was one of two follow-up volumes to the previous year's ''''' edited by Read More..

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Description	The 1972 Annual World's Best SF is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha, the initial volume in a series of nineteen. It was one of two follow-up volumes to the previous year's ''''' edited by Wollheim and Terry Carr for Ace Books, the other being Carr's The Best Science Fiction of the Year. The Wollheim/Saha title was first published in paperback by DAW Books in May 1972, followed by a hardcover edition issued in July of the same year by the same publisher as a selection of the Science Fiction Book Club. For the hardcover edition the original cover art of John Schoenherr was replaced by a new cover painting by Frank Frazetta. The paperback edition was reissued by DAW in December 1977 under the variant title Wollheim's World's Best SF: Series One', this time with cover art by John Berkey.The book collects fourteen novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introduction by Wollheim. Most of the stories were previously published in 1970 or 1971 in the magazines The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Galaxy Magazine, Analog, Playboy, and If, the anthologies Quark/4, Orbit 8, Orbit 9, and New Writings in SF 19, and the collection In the Pocket and Other S-F Stories / Gather in the Hall of the Planets. One story was first published in this anthology.
Description	The 1972 Annual World's Best SF is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha, the initial volume in a series of nineteen. It was one of two follow-up volumes to the previous year's ''''' edited by Wollheim and Terry Carr for Ace Books, the other being Carr's The Best Science Fiction of the Year. The Wollheim/Saha title was first published in paperback by DAW Books in May 1972, followed by a hardcover edition issued in July of the same year by the same publisher as a selection of the Science Fiction Book Club. For the hardcover edition the original cover art of John Schoenherr was replaced by a new cover painting by Frank Frazetta. The paperback edition was reissued by DAW in December 1977 under the variant title Wollheim's World's Best SF: Series One', this time with cover art by John Berkey.The book collects fourteen novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introduction by Wollheim. Most of the stories were previously published in 1970 or 1971 in the magazines The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Galaxy Magazine, Analog, Playboy, and If, the anthologies Quark/4, Orbit 8, Orbit 9, and New Writings in SF 19, and the collection In the Pocket and Other S-F Stories / Gather in the Hall of the Planets. One story was first published in this anthology.

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Name	The 1972 Annual World's Best SF
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Authors	edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
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Genre	Science fiction short stories
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Series	The Annual World’s Best SF
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Language	English
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Country	United States
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