Best SF, '74

Plenty of good stories to be found this year says editor Harrison. Certainly a significant improvement over the dud they put out the year before, as this editions averages 3.50. No 5s, but a 4.5 and several 4s to be found. One amusing addition that is worth a bonus 0.5 is Gahan Wilson's horror movie pocket computer, which apparently you plug where you are up to in a dodgy movie, and choose a possible end, and go to bed. In a competing series, a mention was made of using this to write one paragraph stories, after putting in a few SF writer names in place of the generic 'man' and 'woman' etc. Harrison Aldiss 08 : After King Kong Fell - Philip José Farmer Harrison Aldiss 08 : When Petals Fall - Sydney J. Van Scyoc Harrison Aldiss 08 : Paleontology: An Experimental Science - Robert R. Olsen Harrison Aldiss 08 : The Women Men Don't See - James Tiptree Harrison Aldiss 08 : Listen with Big Brother - Brian W. Aldiss Harrison Aldiss 08 : The Rise of Airstrip One - Clive James Harrison Aldiss 08 : Owing to Circumstances Beyond Our Control 1984 Has Been Unavoidably Detained - Alan Coren Harrison Aldiss 08 : Lost and Found - Thomas Baum Harrison Aldiss 08 : The Four-Hour Fugue - Alfred Bester Harrison Aldiss 08 : The Scream - Kate Wilhelm Harrison Aldiss 08 : The Execut1oner's Beautiful Daughter - Angela Carter Harrison Aldiss 08 : Songs of War - Kit Reed Harrison Aldiss 08 : Time Deer - Craig Strete Harrison Aldiss 08 : A Typical Day - Doris Piserchia Harrison Aldiss 08 : Programmed Love Story - Ian Watson Bystander big ape story. 4 out of 5 Immortality message rejection. 4 out of 5 If you make a Rex, they will break stuff, eat stuff, kill stuff. Imagine that. 4.5 out of 5 Crash alien intro. 4 out of 5 Patriotic crims. 3.5 out of 5 Concorde silly. 3 out of 5 Flat out of rats, sorry. 3.5 out of 5 Play generation. 3 out of 5 Dry and stinky on the nose. 4 out of 5 Running out of people. Scientists, too. 4 out of 5 The high chop f3tish unrewarded. 3 out of 5 Revolution women, non-stick. 4 out of 5 Everybody watching. 2 out of 5 Breeding experiment demands. 3 out of 5 Wife wh0re personality. 3 out of 5