The Best Science Fiction of the Year

The Best Science Fiction of the Year was a series of annual paperback anthologies edited by Terry Carr.

Most volumes were also issued in hardcover in the United Kingdom by Gollancz, the last three under the variant title Best SF of the Year.

(Wollheim, with co-editor Arthur W. Saha, also issued his own separate continuation, The Annual World’s Best SF, from 1972 to 1990.)

Each annual volume reprinted what in the opinion of the editor were the best science fiction short stories appearing in the previous year.

It featured both occasionally recurring authors, and writers new to the science fiction genre.