Here’s another John Schoenherr illustration encompassing both front and rear covers, presented as a composite image.
Like Star Science Fiction Stories Number 2, the art of World’s Best Science Fiction 1969, encompasses the book’s front and rear covers – just as did the cover art for World’s Best for 1970. Schoenherr’s art has echoes of that of Richard Powers, in terms of diminutive human figures, a kind of fusion of biology and technology, and above all, mystery and ambiguity.
I’ve also included the book’s title page art, which was a staple of every Ace “World’s Best” anthology published between 1965 and 1971. I think this particular composition was created by Jack Gaughan, for it’s very (very!) similar to Gaughan’s cover art for E.E. Smith’s Children of the Lens, as published by Pyramid in April of 1970 (Pyramid Book T-2195).
(Oh, yeah… This post has been revised from its original version (which appeared in the former world of January, 2018), the original, simplified cover scan appearing at bottom.)
Contents
A Man Speakith, by Richard Wilson, from Galaxy Science Fiction
After the Myths Went Home, by Robert Silverberg, from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Death by Ecstasy, by Larry Niven, from Galaxy Science Fiction
One Sunday In Neptune, by Alexei Panshin, from Tomorrow’s Worlds
For the Sake of Grace, by Suzette Hardin Elgin, from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Your Haploid Heart, by James Tiptree, Jr., from Analog Science Fiction – Science Fact
Therapy 2000, by Keith Roberts, from New Writings in SF 15
Sixth Sense, by Michael G Coney, from Vision of Tomorrow
A Boy and His Dog, by Harlan Ellison, from New Worlds, and, The Beast That Shouted Love at The Heart of The World
And So Say All of Us, by Bruce McAllister, from Galaxy Science Fiction
Ship of Shadows, by Fritz Leiber, from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Nine Lives, by Ursual K. LeGuin, from Playboy
The Big Flash, by Norman Spinrad, from Orbit 5
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January 1, 2018 – 129
