Best Science Fiction of the Year 9

Contents:ix · Introduction · Terry Carr · in 1 · Galatea Galante, The Perfect Popsy · Alfred Bester · nv Omni Apr ’79 50 · Sandkings · George R. R. Martin · nv Omni Aug ’79 96 · Time Shards · Gregory Benford · ss Universe 9, ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday, 1979 107 · In the Country of the Blind, No One Can See · Melisa Michaels · ss IASFM Jan ’79 126 · Re-deem the Time · David J. Lake · ss Rooms of Paradise, ed. Lee Harding, South Yarra, Victoria, Australia: Quartet Books, 1978 143 · Down and Out on Ellfive Prime · Dean Ing · nv Omni Mar ’79 170 · The Exit Door Leads In · Philip K. Dick · ss Rolling Stone College Papers #1 ’79 192 · Options · John Varley · nv Universe 9, ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday, 1979 226 · In Trophonius’s Cave · James P. Girard · ss F&SF May ’79 244 · Fireflood · Vonda N. McIntyre · nv F&SF Nov ’79 269 · No More Pencils, No More Books · John Morressy · ss F&SF Jun ’79 282 · The Vacuum-Packed Picnic · Rick Gauger · ss Omni Sep ’79 302 · The Thaw · Tanith Lee · nv IASFM Jun ’79 325 · In a Petri Dish Upstairs · George Turner · nv Rooms of Paradise, ed. Lee Harding, South Yarra, Victoria, Australia: Quartet Books, 1978 360 · Recommended Reading—1979 · Terry Carr · bi