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Here, out there, or beyond, S-F has produced some of the most imaginative fiction in our literature - and Judith Merril has established herself as its premiere anthologist and critic. Her latest collection, the tenth in this consistently excellent series, surpasses all that have gone before. Never have Miss Merril's forays into the realms of available science-fiction yielded as stunning a literary harvest: Romain Gary, Arthur C. Clarke, James T. Farrell, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Fritz Lieber, J.G. Ballard, John D. MacDonald, Alan E. Nourse, Thomas M. Disch and Stephen Becker are just a few of the glittering array that has been selected. This edition of The Year's Best S-F contains more than thirty of the finest examples of science-fiction inventiveness. It is an extraordinary anthology that will stimulate and challenge even the most seasoned science-fiction traveler. Judith Merril, a writer herself, selects the greatest science-fiction and fantasy each year for inclusion in her famous Annual. S-F, more and more, is merging with the mainstream of literature, and her anthologies brilliantly illustrate this trend. Automatic Tiger by Kit Reed The Carson Effect by Richard Wilson The Shining Ones by Arthur C. Clarke Pacifist by Mack Reynolds The New Encyclopaedist by Stephen Becker The Legend of Joe Lee by John D. MacDonald Gas Mask by James D. Houston A Sinister Metamorphosis by Russell Baker Sonny by Rick Raphael The Last Secret Weapon of the Third Reich by Josef Nesvadba Descending by Thomas M. Disch Decadence by Romain Gary Be of Good Cheer by Fritz Lieber It Could Be You by Frank Roberts A Benefactor of Humanity by James T. Farrell Synchromocracy by Hap Cawood The Search by Bruce Simonds The Pirokin Effect by Larry Eisenberg The Twerlik by Jack Sharkey A Rose for Ecclesiastes by Roger Zelazny The Terminal Beach by J.G. Ballard Problem Child by Arthur Porges The Wonderful Dog Suit by Donald Hall The Mathenauts by Norman Kagan Family Portrait by Morgan Kent The Red Egg by Jose Maria Gironella The Power of Positive Thinking by M.E. White A Living Doll by Robert Wallace Training Talk by David R. Bunch A Miracle Too Many by Philip H. Smith and Alan E. Nourse The Last Lonely Man by John Brunner The Man Who Found Proteus by Robert Rohrer Yachid and Yechida by Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Josephine Juliet Grossman aka Cyril Judd (with C.M. Kornbluth) Judith Josephine Grossman (Boston, Massachusetts, January 21, 1923 - Toronto, Ontario, September 12, 1997), who took the pen-name Judith Merril about 1945, was an American and then Canadian science fiction writer, editor and political activist. Although Judith Merril's first paid writing was in other genres, in her first few years of writing published science fiction she wrote her three novels (all but the first in collaboration with C.M. Kornbluth) and some stories. Her roughly four decades in that genre also included writing 26 published short stories, and editing a similar number of anthologies.
