Terry Carr - The Best Science Fiction of the Year 1

This is the first of Terry Carr’s annual “Best of the Year” anthologies, collecting works published in 1971. Introduction by Carr, plus the following stories: Occam's Scalpel by Theodore Sturgeon; The Queen of Air and Darkness by Poul Anderson; In Entropy's Jaws by Robert Silverberg; The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World by Philip José Farmer; A Meeting With Medusa by Arthur C. Clarke; The Frayed String on the Stretched Forefinger of Time by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.; How Can We Sink When We Can Fly? by Alexei Panshin; No Direction Home by Norman Spinrad; Vaster Than Empires and More Slow by Ursula K. Le Guin; All the Last Wars at Once by George Alec Effinger; The Fourth Profession by Larry Niven.