Hwhat Is the Vaue of This Hard Back Book the 1978 Annual World's Best Sf Edited by Donald a Wollheim

1978 Annual World's Best SF, The

1978 Annual World's Best SF, The

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New York: DAW Books, Inc. BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Scuffed; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. BOOK NUMBER: 3320. CONTENTS: Introduction; In the Hall of the Martian Kings - John Varley; A Time to Live - Joe Haldeman; The House of Compassionate Sharers - Michael Bishop; Particle Theory - Edward Bryant; The Taste of the Dish and the Savor of the Day - John Brunner; Jeffty is Five - Harlan Ellison; The Screwfly Solution - Raccoona Sheldon; Eyes of Amber - Joan D. Vinge; Child of the Sun - James E. Gunn; Brother - Clifford D. Simak. SYNOPSIS: A self-made millionaire gets a chance to live his life over...an accident victim who is given a mechanical body adapts to it so thoroughly that all things human repel him...an elderly man insists that he has a twin brother--although there's no record of the brother's existence. The 1978 Annual World's Best SF explores these intriguing concepts, and more: Eyes of Amber by Joan D. Vinge. On Titan, Lady T'uupieh contemplated revenge. The evil Lord Klovhiri had stolen her lands, forcing her and a few loyal followers to survive any way they could. T'uupieh had become a professional assassin, turning that fearful trade into a fine art--with the help of the amber-eyed demon that had come to her in the forest one day. Now she had been hired to kill Klovhiri and was looking forward to mixing business with pleasure. Not for a moment did T'uupieh doubt her success, for her demon was powerful and all-seeing... Jeffty is Five by Harlan Ellison. Donny had wonderful memories of his childhood: Saturday matinees, the taste of the original Clark Bar, radio programs like Amos 'n' Andy and The Green Hornet, and especially his friendship with Jeffty. But things changed. Saturday matinees no longer included episodes of Flash Gordon; Clark Bars didn't taste quite the same. They even took all the great radio shows off the air--a fact that Donny, growing up, felt particularly sorry about...except when he visited Jeffty. Because somehow Jeffty had stayed five years old--and in Jeffty's world, the good things hadn't changed at all. The Screwfly Solution by Raccoona Sheldon*. The cult was called Sons of Adam; its credo: that man must purify himself, get rid of his animal part--which is woman--in order that God and his angels might reveal a better way to live. The whole idea seemed crazy to Alan, who was far away from the hoopla, working on a pesticide project in Colombia. Yet the letters from his normally level-headed wife were increasingly disturbing: accounts of women and little girls being murdered en masse, and men who claimed that God had told them to kill their wives, girlfriends, daughters, mothers. It was as though there was a new disease in the world that made men go berserk. And Alan soon discovered, to his horror, that he was not immune to it! (*Raccoona Sheldon is really Alice Sheldon, better known to science fiction fans as James Tiptree Jr.) Plus works by John Varley, Joe Haldeman, Clifford D. Simak...ten sensational stories in all!. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Good/Good. Illus. by Richard Powers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Title

1978 Annual World's Best SF, The

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Wollheim, Donald A. with Saha, Arthur W. (Edited by)

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Richard Powers

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Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

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DAW Books, Inc.

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New York

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Science Fiction,Anthologies

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8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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