The Best Science Fiction of the Year #6 is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Terry Carr, the sixth volume in a series of sixteen.

It was first published in paperback by Del Rey Books and in hardcover by Holt, Rinehart and Winston in July 1977.

The book collects eleven novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introduction, notes and concluding essays by Carr and Charles N. Brown.

C. Ben Ostrander reviewed The Best Science Fiction of the Year #6 in The Space Gamer No.

[...] I don't think anyone can afford to miss what is at least the best SF published in the USA and UK.