World's Best Science Fiction

World's Best Science Fiction was a series of annual paperback anthologies published by Ace Books from 1965 to 1971 under the editorship of Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr.

Some volumes were also issued in hardcover through the Science Fiction Book Club or (in the United Kingdom) by Gollancz.

Each volume included the year of publication after the title, though when the first four volumes were subsequently reprinted the year designation was replaced by a numerical one (First through Fourth Series in place of 1965 to 1968).

Each annual volume reprinted what in the opinion of the editors 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.