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Best SF73 is a collection of 16 short stories and 5 SF poems with a copyright date of 1973. The stories are:
Roller Ball Murder – war as a spectator sport. This is the short story that inspired the movie Rollerball staring James Caan – 5 stars
Masons Life – what is the dream and what is the reality…and what happens when you start to wake up? – 2 ½ stars
Welcome to the Standard Nightmare – Aliens prepare to invade Earth with a citizen of Earth as their leader. – 1 star
Serpent Burning on an Altar – Two musketeers meet two girls and things happen – ½ star
We Are Very Happy Here – this became a section of the book The Forever War. In the book it is titled “Sergeant Mandella 2007-2024 A.D. – 4 stars
The Birds – The end of a heavily polluted Earth from the standpoint of a duck – 1 star
The Wind and the Rain – Hazmat teams return to a dead, hyper-polluted, Earth to begin planetwide cleanup – 1 star
Ten Years Ago – This isn’t writing – it’s just typing – 0 stars
Parthen – Aliens charm all of the men on Earth to death. – ½ star
The Man Who Collected the First of September 1973 – What happens when you must know everything about a particular point in time – ½ star
Captain Nemo’s Last Adventure – what the title says – ½ star
La Befana – Adam and Eve with a twist – ½ star
Five Poems – yes, they are – no rating
The Window Into Dante’s Hell – Dystopian hive culture future – the haves and the have nots – 1 star
Sister Francetta and the Pig Baby – a very short story about a baby with a pig face – 0 stars
Escape – From the frying pan into the fire – 1 star
Early Bird – when you cross a man with a machine you get a hybrid – ½ star
The quality of the stories is all over the map. In the opinion of this reviewer, most have not aged well and several are DOA. There are two worthwhile stories. 2 out of 16 = .125 so .125 x 5 = .62 and .62 rounded up = 1 so, I’ll give the book one star. If you are looking for a good collection of science fiction short stories, I would recommend you look elsewhere. ( )
Depressing - well, it is SF from early 1970s, so to be expected. Inclusive - several translated from international writers, five poems, and several published in non-SF magazines, like *Esquire.* The longest story was military SF so I skipped it - Joe Haldeman's entry.
Slowly I'm working through about 3 dozen SF anthologies, mostly 'best ofs' but also some themed. I'm going by publication date, and I have plenty of stuff from the 70s still ahead of me. I wonder - do anthologists who choose these 'bests' feel the same way the Academy Award committee apparently does, in that award contenders have to be all serious and dramatic? Sometimes funny and happy stories are wonderful, too... wish me luck finding them! ( )
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This is a different series from Gardner Dozois' The Year's Best Science Fiction. "The Year's Best Science Fiction No.7" is a truncated version of "Best SF: 1973". It is missing the five poems, four short stories and the afterword.
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The stories are:
Roller Ball Murder – war as a spectator sport. This is the short story that inspired the movie Rollerball staring James Caan – 5 stars
Masons Life – what is the dream and what is the reality…and what happens when you start to wake up? – 2 ½ stars
Welcome to the Standard Nightmare – Aliens prepare to invade Earth with a citizen of Earth as their leader. – 1 star
Serpent Burning on an Altar – Two musketeers meet two girls and things happen – ½ star
We Are Very Happy Here – this became a section of the book The Forever War. In the book it is titled “Sergeant Mandella 2007-2024 A.D. – 4 stars
The Birds – The end of a heavily polluted Earth from the standpoint of a duck – 1 star
The Wind and the Rain – Hazmat teams return to a dead, hyper-polluted, Earth to begin planetwide cleanup – 1 star
Ten Years Ago – This isn’t writing – it’s just typing – 0 stars
Parthen – Aliens charm all of the men on Earth to death. – ½ star
The Man Who Collected the First of September 1973 – What happens when you must know everything about a particular point in time – ½ star
Captain Nemo’s Last Adventure – what the title says – ½ star
La Befana – Adam and Eve with a twist – ½ star
Five Poems – yes, they are – no rating
The Window Into Dante’s Hell – Dystopian hive culture future – the haves and the have nots – 1 star
Sister Francetta and the Pig Baby – a very short story about a baby with a pig face – 0 stars
Escape – From the frying pan into the fire – 1 star
Early Bird – when you cross a man with a machine you get a hybrid – ½ star
The quality of the stories is all over the map. In the opinion of this reviewer, most have not aged well and several are DOA. There are two worthwhile stories. 2 out of 16 = .125 so .125 x 5 = .62 and .62 rounded up = 1 so, I’ll give the book one star. If you are looking for a good collection of science fiction short stories, I would recommend you look elsewhere. (