Category - Fiction / Sci-Fi
Format - Hardcover
Condition - Good
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THE 1985 ANNUAL WORLD'S BEST SF EDITED BY DONALD A. WOLLHEIM A man leaves the modern world behind to live in ancient Babylon, which has been re-created - with its greatest historical epochs co-existing in time - somewhere in the Arizona desert.... Earth's hospitality is put to the supreme test when a race of well-meaning but insufferably opinionated aliens comes to call.... The peaceful exploration of an alien world deteriorates into a full-scale war - all because of one native's total misinterpretation of the human visitors' behavior and motives.... With themes ranging from the serious to the darkly humorous, and contributors as gifted as Tanith Lee and Stephen R. Donaldson, the ten outstanding stories in this year's WORLD'S BEST SF anthology (four Nebula Award nominees among them raise the concept of speculative fiction to new heights. Consider, for example: