SF: The Best of the Best, Part One

by Judith Merril (Editor), Walter M. Miller Jr. (Contributor), Theodore Sturgeon (Contributor)

Set your controls for Nirvana...

Exult in a paradise of SF and keep a tight rein on the labyrinth of your mind as you read twelve mini-masterpieces carefully picked by the world's most famous SF anthologist. Culled from her celebrated annual selections, these tales represent the best of SF between 1955 and 1960 and indicate the full range of diversity of Miss Merrill's taste which has made The Year's Best SF an annual science fiction event.

Contents:
The hoofer / Walter M. Miller, Jr. --
Bulkhead / Theodore Sturgeon --
Prima belladonna / J.G. Ballard --
Casey Agonistes / Richard M. McKenna --
A death in the house / Clifford D. Simak --
Space-time for springers / Fritz Leiber --
Pelt / Carol Emshwiller --
Stranger station / Damon Knight --
Satellite passage / Theodore L. Thomas --
No, no, not Rogov! / Cordwainer Smith --
Compounded interest / Mack Reynolds --
Junior / Robert Abernathy.

203 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1970

About the author

Josephine Juliet Grossman

aka Cyril Judd (with C.M. Kornbluth)

Judith Josephine Grossman (Boston, Massachusetts, January 21, 1923 - Toronto, Ontario, September 12, 1997), who took the pen-name Judith Merril about 1945, was an American and then Canadian science fiction writer, editor and political activist.

Although Judith Merril's first paid writing was in other genres, in her first few years of writing published science fiction she wrote her three novels (all but the first in collaboration with C.M. Kornbluth) and some stories. Her roughly four decades in that genre also included writing 26 published short stories, and editing a similar number of anthologies.