Donald A. Wollheim launched his solo annual series with his eponymously-named publishing imprint DAW, producing 19 volumes until his death in 1990. The co-editor, acknolwedged on the title pages but not the covers, was Arthur W. Saha. The books were paperback originals throughout the run, with hardcover editions from the US Science Fiction Book Club. (The photo below shows some of each.) As with the Wollheim/Carr series the title evoked a world-wide scope, though as with the earlier series, selections rarely came from outside familiar genre sources. Wollheim's selections tended to be more conservative than Carr's; the introduction to the first story in Wollheim's first volume expresses relief than Larry Niven, despite publishing a story in an anthology edited by Samuel R. Delany, had not "sold out" the "great tradition."
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The 1972 Annual World's Best SF, (DAW, 1972)
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The 1973 Annual World's Best SF, (DAW, 1973)
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The 1974 Annual World's Best SF, (DAW, 1974)
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The 1975 Annual World's Best SF, (DAW, 1975)
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The 1976 Annual World's Best SF, (DAW, 1976)
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The 1977 Annual World's Best SF, (DAW, 1977)
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The 1978 Annual World's Best SF, (DAW, 1978)
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The 1979 Annual World's Best SF, (DAW, 1979)
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The 1980 Annual World's Best SF, (DAW, 1980)
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The 1981 Annual World's Best SF, (DAW, 1981)
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The 1982 Annual World's Best SF, (DAW, 1982)
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The 1983 Annual World's Best SF, (DAW, 1983)
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The 1984 Annual World's Best SF, (DAW, 1984)
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The 1985 Annual World's Best SF, (DAW, 1985)
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The 1986 Annual World's Best SF, (DAW, 1986)
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The 1987 Annual World's Best SF, (DAW, 1987)
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The 1988 Annual World's Best SF, (DAW, 1988)
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The 1989 Annual World's Best SF, (DAW, 1989)
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The 1990 Annual World's Best SF, (DAW, 1990)
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Complete Contents by Author and Title
Brian W. Aldiss
Appearance of Life
(1976)
-- The 1977 Annual World's Best SF
North of the Abyss
(1989)
-- The 1990 Annual World's Best SF
Poul Anderson
Goat Song
(1972)
-- The 1973 Annual World's Best SF
A Little Knowledge
(1971)
-- The 1972 Annual World's Best SF
Isaac Asimov
The Bicentennial Man
(1976)
-- The 1977 Annual World's Best SF
Potential
(1983)
-- The 1984 Annual World's Best SF
Stranger in Paradise
(1974)
-- The 1975 Annual World's Best SF
J. G. Ballard
War Fever
(1989)
-- The 1990 Annual World's Best SF
Steven Barnes
The Locusts
(by Larry Niven & SB)
(1979)
-- The 1980 Annual World's Best SF
T. J. Bass
Rorqual Maru
(1972)
-- The 1973 Annual World's Best SF
Barrington J. Bayley
The Bees of Knowledge
(1975)
-- The 1976 Annual World's Best SF
The Cabinet of Oliver Naylor
(1976)
-- The 1977 Annual World's Best SF
Death Ship
(1989)
-- The 1990 Annual World's Best SF
Greg Bear
Blood Music
(1983)
-- The 1984 Annual World's Best SF
Scattershot
(1978)
-- The 1979 Annual World's Best SF
Gregory Benford
Alphas
(1989)
-- The 1990 Annual World's Best SF
In Alien Flesh
(1978)
-- The 1979 Annual World's Best SF
Eddy C. Bertin
Timestorm
(1971)
-- The 1972 Annual World's Best SF
Alfred Bester
The Four-Hour Fugue
(1974)
-- The 1975 Annual World's Best SF
Michael Bishop
Allegiances
(1975)
-- The 1976 Annual World's Best SF
Cathadonian Odyssey
(1974)
-- The 1975 Annual World's Best SF
Death and Designation Among the Asadi
(1973)
-- The 1974 Annual World's Best SF
The House of Compassionate Sharers
(1977)
-- The 1978 Annual World's Best SF
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Elbow Room
(1980)
-- The 1981 Annual World's Best SF
David Brin
The Giving Plague
(1988)
-- The 1989 Annual World's Best SF
John Brunner
The Protocols of the Elders of Britain
(1974)
-- The 1976 Annual World's Best SF
The Taste of the Dish and the Savor of the Day
(1977)
-- The 1978 Annual World's Best SF
Edward Bryant
Particle Theory
(1977)
-- The 1978 Annual World's Best SF
F. M. Busby
Come to the Party
(by FMB & Frank Herbert)
(1978)
-- The 1979 Annual World's Best SF
Octavia E. Butler
Bloodchild
(1984)
-- The 1985 Annual World's Best SF
Pat Cadigan
Angel
(1987)
-- The 1988 Annual World's Best SF
Pretty Boy Crossover
(1986)
-- The 1987 Annual World's Best SF
Orson Scott Card
America
(1987)
-- The 1988 Annual World's Best SF
Dogwalker
(1989)
-- The 1990 Annual World's Best SF
Unaccompanied Sonata
(1979)
-- The 1980 Annual World's Best SF
Jayge Carr
Blind Spot
(1981)
-- The 1982 Annual World's Best SF
Webrider
(1985)
-- The 1986 Annual World's Best SF
Jack L. Chalker
Adrift Among the Ghosts
(1988)
-- The 1989 Annual World's Best SF
Dance Band on the Titanic
(1978)
-- The 1979 Annual World's Best SF
C. J. Cherryh
Cassandra
(1978)
-- The 1979 Annual World's Best SF
Highliner (New York)
(1981)
-- The 1982 Annual World's Best SF
Pots
(1985)
-- The 1986 Annual World's Best SF
Arthur C. Clarke
Transit of Earth
(1971)
-- The 1972 Annual World's Best SF
J. Brian Clarke
Earthgate
(1985)
-- The 1986 Annual World's Best SF
Brenda W. Clough
Ain't Nothin’ but a Hound Dog
(1988)
-- The 1989 Annual World's Best SF
Michael G. Coney
Oh, Valinda!
(1972)
-- The 1973 Annual World's Best SF
The Sharks of Pentreath
(1971)
-- The 1972 Annual World's Best SF
The Summer Sweet, the Winter Wild
(1980)
-- The 1981 Annual World's Best SF
Those Good Old Days of Liquid Fuel
(1976)
-- The 1977 Annual World's Best SF
Richard Cowper
The Custodians
(1975)
-- The 1976 Annual World's Best SF
The Hertford Manuscript
(1976)
-- The 1977 Annual World's Best SF
Out There Where the Big Ships Go
(1979)
-- The 1980 Annual World's Best SF
John Dalmas
The Picture Man
(1984)
-- The 1985 Annual World's Best SF
Jack Dann
The Gods of Mars
(by JD, Gardner Dozois & Michael Swanwick)
(1985)
-- The 1986 Annual World's Best SF
Playing the Game
(by Gardner Dozois & JD)
(1982)
-- The 1983 Annual World's Best SF
Lester del Rey
Natural Advantage
(1976)
-- The 1977 Annual World's Best SF
Joseph H. Delaney
In the Face of My Enemy
(1983)
-- The 1984 Annual World's Best SF
Gordon R. Dickson
Twig
(1974)
-- The 1975 Annual World's Best SF
Stephen R. Donaldson
What Makes Us Human
(1984)
-- The 1985 Annual World's Best SF
Gardner Dozois
The Gods of Mars
(by Jack Dann, GD & Michael Swanwick)
(1985)
-- The 1986 Annual World's Best SF
Playing the Game
(by GD & Jack Dann)
(1982)
-- The 1983 Annual World's Best SF
George Alec Effinger
The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything
(1984)
-- The 1985 Annual World's Best SF
Schrödinger's Kitten
(1988)
-- The 1989 Annual World's Best SF
Doris Egan
Timerider
(1986)
-- The 1987 Annual World's Best SF
Gordon Eklund
Moby, Too
(1973)
-- The 1974 Annual World's Best SF
Suzette Haden Elgin
Lo, How an Oak E'er Blooming
(1986)
-- The 1987 Annual World's Best SF
Harlan Ellison
The Deathbird
(1973)
-- The 1974 Annual World's Best SF
Jeffty Is Five
(1977)
-- The 1978 Annual World's Best SF
One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty
(1970)
-- The 1972 Annual World's Best SF
With Virgil Oddum at the East Pole
(1985)
-- The 1986 Annual World's Best SF
Alan Dean Foster
With Friends Like These...
(1971)
-- The 1972 Annual World's Best SF
Mary Gentle
The Harvest of Wolves
(1983)
-- The 1984 Annual World's Best SF
Steven Gould
Peaches for Mad Molly
(1988)
-- The 1989 Annual World's Best SF
James Gunn
Child of the Sun
(1977)
-- The 1978 Annual World's Best SF
Joe Haldeman
A Time to Live
(1977)
-- The 1978 Annual World's Best SF
Dan Henderson
Carruthers' Last Stand
(1978)
-- The 1979 Annual World's Best SF
Frank Herbert
Come to the Party
(by F. M. Busby & FH)
(1978)
-- The 1979 Annual World's Best SF
Lee Killough
Achronos
(1980)
-- The 1981 Annual World's Best SF
Damon Knight
I See You
(1976)
-- The 1977 Annual World's Best SF
Strangers on Paradise
(1986)
-- The 1987 Annual World's Best SF
C. M. Kornbluth
The Gift of Garigolli
(by Frederik Pohl & CMK)
(1974)
-- The 1975 Annual World's Best SF
Michael P. Kube-McDowell
Slac//
(1981)
-- The 1982 Annual World's Best SF
R. A. Lafferty
All Pieces of a River Shore
(1970)
-- The 1972 Annual World's Best SF
Parthen
(1973)
-- The 1974 Annual World's Best SF
David J. Lake
Creator
(1978)
-- The 1979 Annual World's Best SF
The Last Day of Christmas
(1981)
-- The 1982 Annual World's Best SF
Geoffrey A. Landis
Ripples in the Dirac Sea
(1988)
-- The 1989 Annual World's Best SF
Ursula K. Le Guin
SQ
(1978)
-- The 1979 Annual World's Best SF
Rand B. Lee
Knight of Shallows
(1983)
-- The 1984 Annual World's Best SF
Tanith Lee
As Time Goes By
(1983)
-- The 1984 Annual World's Best SF
Crying in the Rain
(1987)
-- The 1988 Annual World's Best SF
Into Gold
(1986)
-- The 1987 Annual World's Best SF
A Madonna of the Machine
(1988)
-- The 1989 Annual World's Best SF
Medra
(1984)
-- The 1985 Annual World's Best SF
The Thaw
(1979)
-- The 1980 Annual World's Best SF
Written in Water
(1982)
-- The 1983 Annual World's Best SF
Fritz Leiber
Catch That Zeppelin!
(1975)
-- The 1976 Annual World's Best SF
Bob Leman
Window
(1980)
-- The 1981 Annual World's Best SF
Wallace MacFarlane
Changing Woman
(1972)
-- The 1973 Annual World's Best SF
Phyllis MacLennan
Thus Love Betrays Us
(1972)
-- The 1973 Annual World's Best SF
Barry N. Malzberg
Gehenna
(1971)
-- The 1972 Annual World's Best SF
George R. R. Martin
Nightflyers
(1981)
-- The 1981 Annual World's Best SF
A Song for Lya
(1974)
-- The 1975 Annual World's Best SF
The Storms of Windhaven
(by Lisa Tuttle & GRRM)
(1975)
-- The 1976 Annual World's Best SF
The Way of Cross and Dragon
(1979)
-- The 1980 Annual World's Best SF
Jerry Meredith
Dream in a Bottle
(by JM & Dennis E. Smirl)
(1984)
-- The 1987 Annual World's Best SF
Judith Moffett
Not Without Honor
(1989)
-- The 1990 Annual World's Best SF
James Morrow
Abe Lincoln in McDonald's
(1989)
-- The 1990 Annual World's Best SF
Pat Murphy
Rachel in Love
(1987)
-- The 1988 Annual World's Best SF
Larry Niven
The Fourth Profession
(1971)
-- The 1972 Annual World's Best SF
The Locusts
(by LN & Steven Barnes)
(1979)
-- The 1980 Annual World's Best SF
P. J. Plauger
Child of All Ages
(1975)
-- The 1976 Annual World's Best SF
Frederik Pohl
Doomship
(by FP & Jack Williamson)
(1973)
-- The 1974 Annual World's Best SF
Farmer on the Dole
(1982)
-- The 1983 Annual World's Best SF
Fermi and Frost
(1985)
-- The 1986 Annual World's Best SF
The Gift of Garigolli
(by FP & C. M. Kornbluth)
(1974)
-- The 1975 Annual World's Best SF
The Gold at the Starbow's End
(1972)
-- The 1973 Annual World's Best SF
Spending a Day at the Lottery Fair
(1983)
-- The 1984 Annual World's Best SF
Waiting for the Olympians
(1988)
-- The 1989 Annual World's Best SF
Christopher Priest
Real-Time World
(1971)
-- The 1972 Annual World's Best SF
Ted Reynolds
Can These Bones Live?
(1979)
-- The 1980 Annual World's Best SF
Through All Your Houses Wandering
(1981)
-- The 1982 Annual World's Best SF
Stephen Robinett
Helbent 4
(1975)
-- The 1976 Annual World's Best SF
Rudy Rucker
Peg-Man
(1982)
-- The 1983 Annual World's Best SF
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Skin Deep
(1988)
-- The 1989 Annual World's Best SF
Joanna Russ
The Extraordinary Voyages of Amélie Bertrand
(1979)
-- The 1980 Annual World's Best SF
Gleepsite
(1971)
-- The 1972 Annual World's Best SF
My Boat
(1976)
-- The 1977 Annual World's Best SF
Souls
(1982)
-- The 1983 Annual World's Best SF
Don Sakers
All Fall Down
(1987)
-- The 1988 Annual World's Best SF
The Leaves of October
(1983)
-- The 1984 Annual World's Best SF
Bob Shaw
A Full Member of the Club
(1974)
-- The 1975 Annual World's Best SF
Michael Shea
Polyphemus
(1981)
-- The 1982 Annual World's Best SF
Robert Sheckley
A Suppliant in Space
(1973)
-- The 1974 Annual World's Best SF
Vadim Shefner
A Modest Genius
(1973)
-- The 1974 Annual World's Best SF
Raccoona Sheldon
The Screwfly Solution
(1977)
-- The 1978 Annual World's Best SF
Lucius Shepard
The Jaguar Hunter
(1985)
-- The 1986 Annual World's Best SF
R&R
(1986)
-- The 1987 Annual World's Best SF
Salvador
(1984)
-- The 1985 Annual World's Best SF
The Sun Spider
(1987)
-- The 1988 Annual World's Best SF
Surrender
(1989)
-- The 1990 Annual World's Best SF
John Shirley
Shaman
(1988)
-- The 1989 Annual World's Best SF
Gary Shockley
The Coming of the Goonga
(1984)
-- The 1985 Annual World's Best SF
Robert Silverberg
Against Babylon
(1986)
-- The 1987 Annual World's Best SF
Chip Runner
(1989)
-- The 1990 Annual World's Best SF
Homefaring
(1983)
-- The 1984 Annual World's Best SF
The Pardoner's Tale
(1987)
-- The 1988 Annual World's Best SF
Sailing to Byzantium
(1985)
-- The 1986 Annual World's Best SF
A Sleep and a Forgetting
(1989)
-- The 1990 Annual World's Best SF
Clifford D. Simak
Brother
(1977)
-- The 1978 Annual World's Best SF
Construction Shack
(1973)
-- The 1974 Annual World's Best SF
To Walk a City's Street
(1972)
-- The 1973 Annual World's Best SF
Dennis E. Smirl
Dream in a Bottle
(by Jerry Meredith & DES)
(1984)
-- The 1987 Annual World's Best SF
Norman Spinrad
Prime Time
(1980)
-- The 1981 Annual World's Best SF
The Weed of Time
(1970)
-- The 1974 Annual World's Best SF
Brian Stableford
The Engineer and the Executioner
(1975)
-- The 1976 Annual World's Best SF
The Magic Bullet
(1989)
-- The 1990 Annual World's Best SF
The Sun's Tears
(1974)
-- The 1975 Annual World's Best SF
Bruce Sterling
Swarm
(1982)
-- The 1983 Annual World's Best SF
Craig Strete
The Bleeding Man
(1974)
-- The 1975 Annual World's Best SF
Theodore Sturgeon
Occam's Scalpel
(1971)
-- The 1972 Annual World's Best SF
Somtow Sucharitkul
Absent Thee from Felicity Awhile...
(1981)
-- The 1982 Annual World's Best SF
The Thirteenth Utopia
(1979)
-- The 1980 Annual World's Best SF
Timothy R. Sullivan
The Comedian
(1982)
-- The 1983 Annual World's Best SF
Gardner Dozois
The Gods of Mars
(by Jack Dann, Gardner Dozois & MS)
(1985)
-- The 1986 Annual World's Best SF
S. C. Sykes
The Cyphertone
(1981)
-- The 1982 Annual World's Best SF
Stephen Tall
The Bear with the Knot on His Tail
(1971)
-- The 1972 Annual World's Best SF
Robert J. Tilley
"Willie's Blues"
(1972)
-- The 1973 Annual World's Best SF
James Tiptree, Jr.
Houston, Houston, Do You Read?
(1976)
-- The 1977 Annual World's Best SF
The Man Who Walked Home
(1972)
-- The 1973 Annual World's Best SF
Out of the Everywhere
(1981)
-- The 1982 Annual World's Best SF
Second Going
(1987)
-- The 1988 Annual World's Best SF
We Who Stole the Dream
(1978)
-- The 1979 Annual World's Best SF
E. C. Tubb
Evane
(1973)
-- The 1974 Annual World's Best SF
Leonard Tushnet
Aunt Jennie's Tonic
(1971)
-- The 1972 Annual World's Best SF
Lisa Tuttle
In Translation
(1989)
-- The 1990 Annual World's Best SF
A Spaceship Built of Stone
(1980)
-- The 1981 Annual World's Best SF
The Storms of Windhaven
(by LT & George R. R. Martin)
(1975)
-- The 1976 Annual World's Best SF
Sydney J. Van Scyoc
Deathsong
(1974)
-- The 1975 Annual World's Best SF
John Varley
Beatnik Bayou
(1980)
-- The 1981 Annual World's Best SF
In the Hall of the Martian Kings
(1977)
-- The 1978 Annual World's Best SF
Options
(1979)
-- The 1980 Annual World's Best SF
Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
(1976)
-- The 1977 Annual World's Best SF
The Persistence of Vision
(1978)
-- The 1979 Annual World's Best SF
PRESS ENTER[]
(1984)
-- The 1985 Annual World's Best SF
The Pusher
(1981)
-- The 1982 Annual World's Best SF
Joan D. Vinge
Eyes of Amber
(1977)
-- The 1978 Annual World's Best SF
The Peddler's Apprentice
(by JDV & Vernor Vinge)
(1975)
-- The 1976 Annual World's Best SF
Vernor Vinge
Long Shot
(1972)
-- The 1973 Annual World's Best SF
The Peddler's Apprentice
(by Joan D. Vinge & VV)
(1975)
-- The 1976 Annual World's Best SF
Howard Waldrop
The Lions Are Asleep This Night
(1986)
-- The 1987 Annual World's Best SF
The Ugly Chickens
(1980)
-- The 1981 Annual World's Best SF
Ian Watson
The Flies of Memory
(1988)
-- The 1989 Annual World's Best SF
On the Dream Channel Panel
(1985)
-- The 1986 Annual World's Best SF
We Remember Babylon
(1984)
-- The 1985 Annual World's Best SF
Sharon Webb
Variation On a Theme from Beethoven
(1980)
-- The 1981 Annual World's Best SF
James White
The Scourge
(1982)
-- The 1983 Annual World's Best SF
Kate Wilhelm
Forever Yours, Anna
(1987)
-- The 1988 Annual World's Best SF
Walter Jon Williams
Dinosaurs
(1987)
-- The 1988 Annual World's Best SF
Jack Williamson
Doomship
(by Frederik Pohl & JW)
(1973)
-- The 1974 Annual World's Best SF
Connie Willis
Cash Crop
(1984)
-- The 1985 Annual World's Best SF
The Curse of Kings
(1985)
-- The 1986 Annual World's Best SF
Daisy, in the Sun
(1979)
-- The 1980 Annual World's Best SF
A Letter from the Clearys
(1982)
-- The 1983 Annual World's Best SF
Richard Wilson
The Story Writer
(1979)
-- The 1980 Annual World's Best SF
Thomas Wylde
The Nanny
(1983)
-- The 1984 Annual World's Best SF
Timothy Zahn
Pawn's Gambit
(1982)
-- The 1983 Annual World's Best SF
Roger Zelazny
Permafrost
(1986)
-- The 1987 Annual World's Best SF
