The Best Science Fiction of the Year 3 by Terry Carr

They include 'Brown Robert' (July 1962 F&SF), a neat Time-Travel variant, 'The Dance of the Changer and the Three' (in The Farthest Reaches, anth 1968, ed Joseph Elder), an ambitious attempt to render an Alien culture by telling one of its myths, and 'Ozymandias' (in Again, Dangerous Visions, anth 1972, ed Harlan Ellison), which draws an effective parallel between modern Cryonics techniques and the funeral practices of ancient Egypt.

He was never prolific as a fiction writer, but the tales in that collection are thoughtful and distinctive. Most of his early stories appeared in this magazine the majority are assembled in The Light at the End of the Universe (coll 1976). In the early 1960s Carr began to work as an editor and to write fiction, his first story being 'Who Sups with the Devil' in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction for May 1962.

Some of this writing was assembled as The Incompleat Terry Carr, Volume 1 (coll 1972 chap), Fandom Harvest (coll 1986), Between Two Worlds (coll 1986 chap dos) – published back-to-back with similar material by Bob Shaw – and Fandom Harvest II (coll 2019 ebook). He became an sf fan in 1949 and, throughout the 1950s (and later), enjoyed a long and prolific career as such one of his Fanzines, Fanac, co-edited with Ron Ellik, won a Hugo in 1959, and Carr eventually won his second Hugo as Best Fan Writer in 1973. 'Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand' won the 1973 Nebula Award for Best Novelette, was nominated for the 1974 Hugo Award for Best Novelette, and placed second in the 1974 Locus Poll Award for Best Short Fiction.(1937-1987) US author and editor married to Carol Carr from 1961 until his death.

'The Deathbird' was nominated for the 1973 Nebula Award for Best Novelette, won the 1974 Hugo Award for Best Novelette, and placed first in the 1974 Locus Poll Award for Best Short Fiction. 'Rumfuddle' placed eighth in the 1974 Locus Poll Award for Best Novella. The anthology placed second in the 1975 Locus Poll Award for Best Reprint Anthology/Collection. 'Honorable Mentions - 1973' (Terry Carr).'The Women Men Don't See' (James Tiptree, Jr.).

'Sketches Among the Ruins of My Mind' (Philip José Farmer).'The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas' (Ursula K.'Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand' (Vonda N.'Breckenridge and the Continuum' (Robert Silverberg).'Something Up There Likes Me' (Alfred Bester).

The Best Science Fiction of the Year 3 by Terry Carr