Like “The Women Men Don’t See” by James Tiptree, Jr… perhaps her most famous story, and that’s saying something. How incredible was The Best Science Fiction of the Year #3? It contains some of the finest science fiction stories of all time, packed into one slender volume. Here’s what I said last year about #3, published in 1973. It still speaks to adults today, clearly and with no loss of voice, and I now consider Carr’s Bestvolumes - especially the ones he did in the mid-70s - to be some some of the best SF anthologies ever printed. I’ve returned to Carr’s Best Science Fiction of the Year recently, and discovered why I didn’t connect with them four decades ago: unlike many of his contemporaries, Carr brought an adult eye to SF, and the fiction he selected spoke to adults. I went back to reading pulp SF in books like Before the Golden Age, and was blissfully happy to do so for many years. I picked up my first one in 1977, at the age of 13, and I discovered pretty quickly that they weren’t for me. One of those exceptions is Terry Carr’s Best Science Fiction of the Year. What I learned to love as a teen I largely still enjoy… with some exceptions. My taste in science fiction - like my taste in music and film - was shaped early.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |