Best Science Fiction of the Year, No 5 Book

After several years of collaboratively editing their World's Best annual anthologies of their picks for the best short science fiction stories published in the previous year, Carr and Donald A. Wollheim began editing separate annual anthologies in 1972. Wollheim had left Ace to found DAW Books, and Carr's series appeared from Ballantine Books (before their line was renamed Del Rey Books). 1976 was the fifth year that each edited their own volume, with their picks of the best of 1975. Two of the stories overlapped this year and appeared in both books, Child of All Ages by P.J. Plauger and The Storms of Windhaven by Lisa Tuttle and George R.R. Martin. I preferred Carr's book again this year, though both are pretty good. Carr's excellent selections included stories from Gene Wolfe, John Varley (with two stories), Algis Budrys, Ursula K. LeGuin, Robert F. Young, and Richard A. Lupoff's excellent Sail the Tide of Mourning. My favorites were the posthumous Down to a Sunless Sea by Cordwainer Smith, Croatoan by Harlan Ellison, and Doing Lennon by Gregory Benford.