The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8 is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Terry Carr, the eighth volume in a series of sixteen.

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

"A Hiss of Dragon" placed fifth in the 1979 Locus Poll Award for Best Short Story.

"Black Glass" placed eleventh in the 1979 Locus Poll Award for Best Novelette.

"The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck placed fourteenth in the 1979 Locus Poll Award for Best Novelette.