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3 unusual facts about The Year's Best Science Fiction


Speculative poetry

They were succeeded by more serious venues including the US-based The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (F&SF) (1949–), the UK-based flagship of the New Wave movement New Worlds while it was under the editorship of Michael Moorcock between 1964 and 1970, and the annual reprint anthologies of F&SF and The Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Judith Merril.

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection

Lavie Tidhar: "The Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String"

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection

Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold: "The Canadian Who Came Almost All the Way Back From the Stars"


The Year's Best Horror Stories

Veterans among the contributing authors included Brian Lumley, David Drake, Eddy C. Bertin, Kit Reed, Lisa Tuttle, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Ramsey Campbell, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, Stephen King, and Tanith Lee; some of the then-newcomers to the field featured were Al Sarrantonio, Dennis Etchison, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Juleen Brantingham, and Nina Kiriki Hoffman.


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