The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year 1 - Edited by Terry Carr - 1979 Ballantine Books Paperback

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Blurb: “IN HONOR OF THE NOVELLA

Especially, suited to science fiction, the novella is long enough to allow the creation of stunningly detailed worlds or fantastic new concepts and short enough to capture the marvelous pace of the short story. Surely, the best of both worlds.

Much of the best and most important fiction in the field has appeared in this form, and veteran editor Terry Carr has selected the cream of one year's crop for this volume.

•OLD FOLKS AT HOME

Getting married past age 65 isn't at all that-unusual. but to five people at once?

FIRESHIP

On his own, he was nothing very special-but plugged into the computer, he was the most dangerous man on two worlds!

SEVEN AMERICAN NIGHTS

A stranger came to visit a post-holocaust United States, and his reaction was one for the books.

THE WATCHED

• Day after day, he spied on their strange rites, unseen.

But the watched were also the watchers...

SHIPWRIGHT

To build the spacecraft he dreamed of would take a thousand years and wreck a world... why not give it a try?

THE PERSISTENCE OF VISION

In the world of the blind, the sighted man is..blind!

THE LAUNCHING OF A BRILLIANT NEW SERIES”