BEST SCIENCE FICTION: 1970

by Harry & Brian Aldiss -- Eds. Harrison ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 21, 1971

Like last year's, varied in quality and genera, but strenuously weighted to include an international set: Czech writer Josef Nesvadba's bleak nightmare of shifting identity; a Russian tribute by Gleb Anfilov to a sacrificial robot; an ecological Polish fancy by Slawomir Mrosek; a tale of genetic mischance by Lady Mitchinson. The great bulk of the stories deal with Man and his world which is curling at the edges: two so-so sorties into black consciousness; some literary crypto-cosmology by Alvin Greenberg; a truly horrible modern death recounted by Robert Coover; and humorous fancies dealing with academia and the American Auto (one a progress report on a pregnant Rambler). Publishing gripes are aired and new horizons noted in Harrison's introduction and Aldiss' afterword. Some spectaculars but nothing really startling.

Pub Date: July 21, 1971

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Putnam

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 1, 1971

Categories: FICTION