| The Best Science Fiction of the Year #6 | |
| Author: | Edited by Terry Carr |
| Cover Artist: | Fred Marcellino |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Best Science Fiction of the Year |
| Genre: | Science fiction |
| Publisher: | Holt, Rinehart and Winston |
| Release Date: | 1977 |
| Media Type: | Print (paperback) |
| Pages: | 388 pp. |
| Isbn: | 0-345-25758-8 |
| Preceded By: | The Best Science Fiction of the Year 5 |
| Followed By: | The Best Science Fiction of the Year 7 |
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. The stories were previously published in 1976 in the magazines The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Galaxy, and Amazing Science Fiction, and the anthologies Andromeda 1, New Dimensions Science Fiction Number 6, Future Power, Orbit 18, Universe 6, and Stellar No 2.
C. Ben Ostrander reviewed The Best Science Fiction of the Year #6 in The Space Gamer No. 12.[1] Ostrander commented that this "is the only 'Best of...' that truely lives up to its name. There are eleven of the best of the year by Carr's standards, which are high. [...] I don't think anyone can afford to miss what is at least the best SF published in the USA and UK."[1]