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The 1985 annual world's best SF / edited by Donald A. Wollheim, with Arthur W. Saha.

LIBRA - Adams Collection SciFi 1985 World's best SF
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Wollheim, Donald A., editor.
Saha, Arthur W., editor.
Powers, Richard M., illustrator.
Mark B. Adams Science Fiction Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Science fiction.
Short stories.
Genre:
Science fiction.
Short stories.
Penn Provenance:
Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
Physical Description:
ix, 239 pages ; 22 cm
Edition:
Book Club edition.
Other Title:
World's best SF 1985
Annual world's best science fiction
Annual world's best SF 1986
Place of Publication:
New York : DAW Books, [1985]
Contents:
Introduction / the Editor
Picture man / John Dalmas
Cash crop / Connie WIllis
We remember Babylon / Ian Watson
What makes us human / Stephen R. Donaldson
Salvador / Lucius Shepard
Press enter / John Varley
Aliens who knew, I mean, everything / George Alec Effinger
Bloodchild / Octavia E. Butler
Coming of the goonga / Gary W. Shockley
Medra / Tanith Lee.
Notes:
Edition statement from dust jacket.
"Jacket painting by Richard Powers"--Dust jacket.
First printing has gutter code "P035" on page 239, indicates a printing in August 1985
Local Notes:
Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
Adams Collection copy has dustjacket. Has gutter code.
Cited in:
Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 103
OCLC:
15596817
Publisher Number:
04755 Science Fiction Book Club

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