The Best Science Fiction of the Year 3 by Terry Carr

My favorite in this book is by Edward Bryant, The Legend of Cougar Lou Landis. The stories include good ones from Gordon Eklund and Edgar Pangborn, a very good time-travel-paradox from Robert Silverberg, an amusing look at writing and creativity and ghosts by the under-appreciated George Alec Effinger, a new-wavish surprise from old-timer Ross Rocklynne, and a classic Gene Wolfe novella, The Death of Doctor Island, which he would later expand into my favorite of his books, The Death of Doctor Island and Other Stories and Other Stories.

There are no interior illustrations (the Ace pair had a nice Alicia Austin for each story), and the hardback doesn't even have a cover illustration, just a futuristic-looking large type font. It is a bit thinner than the first two volumes that Ace printed, containing only seven stories, but they're all good ones. The third volume of Carr's Universe series of original anthologies came out in hardback from Random House. His win in 1985 was the first time a freelance editor had won.Ĭarr taught at the Clarion Workshop at Michigan State University in 1978, where his students included Richard Kadrey and Pat Murphy. He also edited numerous one-off anthologies over the same time span. He edited an original story anthology series called Universe, and a popular series of The Best Science Fiction of the Year anthologies that ran from 1972 until his death in 1987. Le Guin and Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin.Īfter conflicts with Ace head Donald A. He first worked at Ace Books, establishing the Ace Science Fiction Specials series which published, among other novels, The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K.

Though he published some fiction in the early 1960s, Carr concentrated on editing.

He was nominated five times for Hugos for Best Fanzine (1959–1961, 1967–1968), winning in 1959, was nominated three times for Best Fan Writer (1971–1973), winning in 1973, and was Fan Guest of Honor at ConFederation in 1986. (He was one of the two fans responsible for the hoax fan 'Carl Brandon' after whom the Carl Brandon Society takes its name.) Despite a long career as a science fiction professional, he continued to participate as a fan until his death. He attended the City College of San Francisco and the University of California, Berkeley from 1954 to 1959.Ĭarr discovered science fiction fandom in 1949, where he became an enthusiastic publisher of fanzines, which later helped open his way into the commercial publishing world.

The Best Science Fiction of the Year 3 by Terry Carr