Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year 16
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 Cover of first edition, 1987 | |
| Editor | Terry Carr |
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| Cover artist | Peter Gudynas |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Best Science Fiction of the Year |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Tor Books |
Publication date | 1987 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | 402 |
| ISBN | 0-312-93025-9 |
| Preceded by | Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year 15 |
Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year #16 is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Terry Carr, the sixteenth and last volume in a series of sixteen. It was first published in hardcover by Tor Books in September 1987. The first British editions were published in hardcover and paperback by Gollancz in December of the same year, under the alternate title Best SF of the Year #16.
The book collects eleven novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introduction, notes and concluding essays by Carr, Charles N. Brown, and Beth Meacham. The stories were previously published in 1986 in the magazines Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Playboy, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Analog Science Fiction and Fact, and the collection Blue Champagne.