A fewer weaker stories than usual in this first volume of the series - so just a 3.48. Have to say I never thought I would see the digital version of this now expensive collectable on sale. So very cool.
Here's the start of the very first introduction by the editor"
"Industry insiders—including myself—spent a great deal of time a few years back wondering when (or if) the Big SF Boom of the late seventies would come to an end. Conventional wisdom said that the market would become glutted and oversaturated, as happened during the smaller postwar SF boom of the fifties, leading inevitably to a bust, a period of collapse and economic retrenchment, caused by the boom it inevitably followed. SF had experienced such cycles of boom-and-bust before, and at the height of the late seventies boom, circa 1978, industry gurus were predicting another patch of bad times ahead.
Well, the bust did come—and it didn’t. The boom kept on booming—and it didn’t. Something unexpected happened, something that definitely had not happened at the end of other boom cycles. Instead of a choice of boom or bust, both happened at once, continued wildcat booming and disastrous economic retrenchment coexisting side by side.
These are always very useful and entertaining - so if the missing volumes of the series can appear that would be excellent.
Year's Best Science Fiction 01 : Cicada Queen - Bruce Sterling
Year's Best Science Fiction 01 : Beyond the Dead Reef - James TiptreeJr.
Year's Best Science Fiction 01 : Slow Birds - Ian Watson
Year's Best Science Fiction 01 : Vulcan's Forge - Poul Anderson
Year's Best Science Fiction 01 : Man-Mountain Gentian - Howard Waldrop
Year's Best Science Fiction 01 : Hardfought - Greg Bear
Year's Best Science Fiction 01 : Manifest Destiny - Joe Haldeman
Year's Best Science Fiction 01 : Full Chicken Richness - Avram Davidson
Year's Best Science Fiction 01 : Multiples - Robert Silverberg
Year's Best Science Fiction 01 : Cryptic - Jack McDevitt
Year's Best Science Fiction 01 : The Sidon in the Mirror - Connie Willis
Year's Best Science Fiction 01 : Golden Gate - R. A. Lafferty
Year's Best Science Fiction 01 : Blind Shemmy - Jack Dann
Year's Best Science Fiction 01 : In the Islands - Pat Murphy
Year's Best Science Fiction 01 : Nunc Dimittis - Tanith Lee
Year's Best Science Fiction 01 : Blood Music - Greg Bear
Year's Best Science Fiction 01 : Her Furry Face - Leigh Kennedy
Year's Best Science Fiction 01 : Knight of Shallows - Rand B. Lee
Year's Best Science Fiction 01 : The Cat - Gene Wolfe
Year's Best Science Fiction 01 : The Monkey Treatment - George R. R. Martin
Year's Best Science Fiction 01 : Nearly Departed - Pat Cadigan
Year's Best Science Fiction 01 : Hearts Do Not In Eyes Shine - John Kessel
Year's Best Science Fiction 01 : Carrion Comfort - Dan Simmons
Year's Best Science Fiction 01 : Gemstone - Vernor Vinge
Year's Best Science Fiction 01 : Black Air - Kim Stanley Robinson
Wellspring of Investors.
4 out of 5
Scattered sea woman scare.
4 out of 5
Blowing the world up a bit at a glassy time.
3.5 out of 5
Wherein we find the Kittiwake partnership plus extra.
3.5 out of 5
Sumo spread.
3 out of 5
Spacehawk history problems.
4 out of 5
Wish they told us about the Apaches.
3.5 out of 5
Dodo, no turkey soup.
2.5 out of 5
Relationship identity switching.
4 out of 5
SETI analysis recovery military breakthrough.
4 out of 5
Tap blowup burn you.
3 out of 5
A bit of melodrama.
2.5 out of 5
Casino gambling for organs, with players linked telepathically. Very hard-edged.
4.5 out of 5
Silkie death.
3.5 out of 5
Vampire princess scares Snake.
3 out of 5
Microcolony kill failure transfer overrun.
4 out of 5
Lady writer on the tv. Is an ape. Gives me the horn.
4 out of 5
Life probabilities trap, Roger-Prime.
3.5 out of 5
Paw stain.
2 out of 5
The little guy can sure put me away.
4 out of 5
Deadpan Allie not so much for pathosfinding the actual dead.
3.5 out of 5
Memory editing.
3 out of 5
Mind vampire deathmatch.
4 out of 5
The Thing From Outer Space - with Grandma.
3 out of 5
Can't walk on water, Saint Anna.
3 out of 5
4.5 out of 5
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