Best SF: 1968

Best SF: 1968 (also known as The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 2) is the second on a series of annual anthologies of science fiction stories edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss, first published in a British edition in January 1969 by Sphere Books. The first American (and first hardcover) edition was released later that year by Putnam, with a Berkley paperback following shortly thereafter. Severn House issued a British hardcover edition in 1977.[1]

Best SF: 1968
First edition cover
EditorsHarry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
PublisherSphere Books
Publication date
1969
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages207
ISBN0-7221-4335-4
OCLC226174718
Preceded byBest SF: 1967 
Followed byBest SF: 1969 

Contents

"Final War" was originally published under Malzberg's "K. M. O'Donnell" pseudonym.[2][3]

Reception

Joanna Russ described the anthology as "a fair mixed bag of stories, framed by an Introduction and Afterword that indirectly--and unfortunately--lead one to expect more from the stories than they manage to give." She noted that the editors' story selection "leans to the obvious and toward stories which have one good, clear, conventional idea."[4] P. Schuyler Miller, reviewing it for Analog, found the book "down a notch" from the previous year's volume, faulting the influence of the "New Wave".[5]

gollark: All code is executed via TIO.run's "API".
gollark: Sad. I kind of hoped it had become sentient somehow, obviously unlikely as it is.
gollark: Oh, right. Like when I pretended it was an AI.
gollark: Did I accidentally commit my token to the repository?
gollark: And that does *not* look like a webhook.

References
  1. ISFDB publication history
  2. Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections
  3. ISFDB bibliography
  4. "Books," F&SF, January 1970, p. 42
  5. "The Reference Library", Analog, September 1969, p. 162


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