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The 1980 Annual World’s Best SF, sometimes called Donald A. Wollheim Presents The 1980 Annual World’s Best SF, is the ninth book in The Annual World's Best SF anthology series from DAW Books. It was edited by Donald A. Wollheim with Arthur W. Saha in 1980, and it presents what Wollheim regarded as the eleven best short stories and novellas from the year 1979. It includes a cover painting by Gary Viskupic, and an introduction in which Wollheim wonders about the future of civilization.

Contents

“The Way of Cross and Dragon” by George R. R. Martin
“The Thirteenth Utopia” by Somtow Sucharitkul
“Options” by John Varley
“Unaccompanied Sonata” by Orson Scott Card
”The Story Writer” by Richard Wilson
“Daisy, in the Sun” by Connie Willis
“The Locusts” by Larry Niven and Steve Barnes
“The Thaw” by Tanith Lee
“Out There Where the Big Ships Go” by Richard Cowper
“Can These Bones Live?” by Ted Reynolds
“The Extraordinary Voyages of Amelie Bertrand” by Joanna Russ