Top Science Fiction: The Authors' Choice

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Top Science Fiction: The Authors' Choice
Top Science Fiction The Authors Choice.jpg
Dust cover of first edition, 1984
Authoredited by
Cover artist
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesAuthors' Choice
GenreScience fiction
PublisherJ. M. Dent
Publication date
1984
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages340 pp.
ISBN0-460-04647-0
Preceded byTop Crime: The Authors' Choice 
Followed byTop Horror: The Authors' Choice 

Top Science Fiction: The Authors' Choice is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by , the second in his series of "Authors' Choice" anthologies.[1] It was first published in hardcover by J. M. Dent in July 1984, with a trade paperback edition issued by the same publisher in 1985.[2] The book has also been published in translation in the Netherlands, Argentina, Germany and Finland.[1]

The book collects twenty-five short stories and novelettes by as many prominent science fiction authors, with the works included all selected and introduced by their authors as representative of their best short works. The stories were originally published in the magazines Amazing, Analog, Astounding, Collier's, , Galaxy, Galileo, If, Infinity, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nebula, Omni, Playboy, Rogue, Science Fiction Quarterly, TriQuarterly, and Worlds of Tomorrow, and the anthologies Epoch and . The book includes an introduction by the editor.[2]

Contents[]

Reception[]

Neil Gaiman reviewed Top Science Fiction for Imagine magazine, and stated that "25 stories selected and introduced by the authors, who range from Aldiss to Wolfe. Some good, some not-so-good, and some dire."[3]

Notes[]

  1. ^ a b Pachter, Josh. Top Science Fiction: The Authors' Choice (editor's webpage on the book).
  2. ^ a b Top Science Fiction: The Authors' Choice title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  3. ^ Gaiman, Neil (September 1985). "Fantasy Media". Imagine (review). TSR Hobbies (UK), Ltd. (30): 48.
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