Like John Schoenherr’s work, this Douglas Meltzer cover includes both front and rear panels of World’s Best Science Fiction 1971. It is rather inventive: A human face forms the center of a radio telescope which is aimed at a galaxy. The dark blue of the sky contrasts nicely with the deep yellow below.
Update – January, 2020
Originally posted in June of 2017, this image of the cover of World’s Best Science Fiction 1971 has been updated to include the volume’s spine, thus given a complete representation of Metlzer’s cover art.
Contents
Slow Sculpture, by Theodore Sturgeon, from Galaxy Science Fiction, February, 1970
Bird in The Hand, by Larry Niven, from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October, 1970
Ishmael In Love, by Robert Silverberg, from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July, 1970
Invasion of Privacy, by Bob Shaw, from Amazing Stories, July, 1970
Waterclap, by Isaac Asimov, from If, April, 1970
Continued on Next Rock, by R.A. Lafferty, from Orbit 7
The Thing in The Stone, by Clifford D. Simak, from If, March, 1970
Nobody Lives on Burton Street, by Gregory Benford, from Amazing Stories, May, 1970
Whatever Became of The McGowans, by Michael G. Coney, from Galaxy Science Fiction, May, 1970
The Last Time Around, by Arthur Sellings, from If, November-December, 1970
Greyspun’s Gift, by Neal Barret, Jr., from Worlds of Tomorrow, Winter, 1970
The Shaker Revival, by Gerald Jonas, from Galaxy Science Fiction, February, 1970
Dear Aunt Annie, by Gordon Eklund, from Fantastic Stories, April, 1970
Confessions, by Ron Goulart, from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August, 1970
Gone are The Lupo, by H.B. Hickey, from Quark / 1
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Reference
World’s Best Science Fiction 1971, at Internet Speculative Fiction Database