Annual World's Best SF HC (1972-1990 DAW Books) comic books 1980-1989

1980 - 1st printing. Includes: "Introduction" (Donald A. Wollheim); "The Way of Cross and Dragon" (George R. R. Martin); "The Thirteenth Utopia" (Somtow Sucharitkul); "Options" (John Varley); "Unaccompanied Sonata" (Orson Scott Card); "The Story Writer" (Richard Wilson); "Daisy, in the Sun" (Connie Willis); "The Locusts" (Larry Niven and Steven Barnes); "The Thaw" (Tanith Lee); "Out There Where the Big Ships Go" (Richard Cowper); "Can These Bones Live?" (Ted Reynolds); and "The Extraordinary Voyages of Amélie Bertrand" (Joanna Russ). Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 284 pages, Text Only.

1981 - 1st printing. Includes: "Introduction" (Donald A. Wollheim); "Variation on a Theme from Beethoven" (Sharon Webb); "Beatnik Bayou" (John Varley); "Elbow Room" (Marion Zimmer Bradley); "The Ugly Chickens" (Howard Waldrop); "Prime Time" (Norman Spinrad); "Nightflyers" (George R. R. Martin); "A Spaceship Built of Stone" (Lisa Tuttle); "Window" (Bob Leman); "The Summer Sweet, the Winter Wild" (Michael G. Coney); and "Achronos" (Lee Killough). Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 252 pages, Text Only.

1982 - 1st printing. Includes: "Introduction" (Donald A. Wollheim); "Blind Spot" (Jayge Carr); "Highliner" (C. J. Cherryh); "The Pusher" (John Varley); "Polyphemus" (Michael Shea); "Absent Thee from Felicity Awhile . . ." (Somtow Sucharitkul); "Out of the Everywhere" (James Tiptree, Jr.); "Slac//" (Michael P. Kube-McDowell); "The Cyphertone" (S. C. Sykes); "Through All Your Houses Wandering" (Ted Reynolds); and "The Last Day of Christmas" (David J. Lake). Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 304 pages, Text Only.

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1983 - 1st printing. Includes: "Introduction" (Donald A. Wollheim); "The Scourge" (James White); "A Letter from the Clearys" (Connie Willis); "Farmer on the Dole" (Frederik Pohl); "Playing the Game" (Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann); "Pawns Gambit" (Timothy Zahn); "The Comedian" (Timothy R. Sullivan); "Written in Water" (Tanith Lee); "Souls" (Joanna Russ); "Swarm" (Bruce Sterling); and "Peg-Man" (Rudy Rucker). Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 256 pages, Text Only.

1984 - 1st printing. Includes: "Introduction" (Donald A. Wollheim); "Blood Music" (Greg Bear); "Potential" (Isaac Asimov); "Knight of Shallows" (Rand B. Lee); "Spending a Day at the Lottery Fair" (Frederik Pohl); "In the Face of My Enemy" (Joseph H. Delaney); "The Nanny" (Thomas Wylde); "The Leaves of October" (Don Sakers); "As Time Goes By" (Tanith Lee); "The Harvest of Wolves" (Mary R. Gentle); and "Homefaring" (Robert Silverberg). Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 256 pages, Text Only.

1985 - 1st printing. Includes: "Introduction" (Donald A. Wollheim); "The Picture Man" (John Dalmas); "Cash Crop" (Connie Willis); "We Remember Babylon" (Ian Watson); "What Makes Us Human" (Stephen R. Donaldson); "Salvador" (Lucius Shepard); "Press Enter []" (John Varley); "The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything" (George Alec Effinger); "Bloodchild" (Octavia E. Butler); "The Coming of the Goonga" (Gary W. Shockley); and "Medra" (Tanith Lee). Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 302 pages, Text Only.

1986 - 1st printing. Includes: "Introduction" (Donald A. Wollheim); "Earthgate" (J. Brian Clarke); "On the Dream Channel Panel" (Ian Watson); "The Gods of Mars" (Gardner Dozois, Jack Dann and Michael Swanwick); "The Jaguar Hunter" (Lucius Shepard); "Sailing to Byzantium" (Robert Silverberg); "Webrider" (Jayge Carr); "With Virgil Oddum at the East Pole" (Harlan Ellison); "The Curse of Kings" (Connie Willis); "Fermi and Frost" (Frederik Pohl); and "Pots" (C. J. Cherryh). Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 304 pages, Text Only.

1987 - 1st printing. Includes: "Introduction" (Donald A. Wollheim); "Permafrost" (Roger Zelazny); "Timerider" (Doris Egan); "Pretty Boy Crossover" (Pat Cadigan); "R & R" (Lucius Shepard); "Lo, How an Oak E'er Blooming" (Suzette Haden Elgin); "Dream in a Bottle" (Jerry Meredith and D. E. Smirl); "Into Gold" (Tanith Lee); "The Lions Are Asleep This Night" (Howard Waldrop); "Against Babylon" (Robert Silverberg); and "Strangers in Paradise" (Damon Knight). Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 304 pages, Text Only.

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1988 - 1st printing. Includes: "Introduction" (Donald A. Wollheim); "The Pardoner's Tale" (Robert Silverberg); "Rachel in Love" (Pat Murphy); "America" (Orson Scott Card); "Crying in the Rain" (Tanith Lee); "The Sun Spider" (Lucius Shepard); "Angel" (Pat Cadigan); "Forever Yours, Anna" (Kate Wilhelm); "Second Going" (James Tiptree, Jr.); "Dinosaurs" (Walter Jon Williams); and "All Fall Down" (Don Sakers). Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 304 pages, Text Only.

1989 - 1st printing. Includes: "Introduction" (Isaac Asimov); "The Giving Plague" (David Brin); "Peaches for Mad Molly" (Steven Gould); "Shaman" (John Shirley); "Schrödinger's Kitten" (George Alec Effinger); "The Flies of Memory" (Ian Watson); "Skin Deep" (Kristine Kathryn Rusch); "A Madonna of the Machine" (Tanith Lee); "Waiting for the Olympians" (Frederik Pohl); "Ain't Nothin' But a Hound Dog" (B. W. Clough); "Adrift Among the Ghosts" (Jack L. Chalker); and "Ripples in the Dirac Sea" (Geoffrey A. Landis). Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 316 pages, Text Only.