The Best Science Fiction of the Year #7

Pfft. I'm so tired of novelettes and novellas. Wanderings and musings and sometimes even adventures, neither as fleshed out as a novel nor as pointed as a story. I'm also tired of SF from the 70s. The most memorable piece in here had all males going mad and killing all females, thinking that would please God... well, it certainly doesn't please me to think they were so ready to believe the teachings... and the climax, well, let's just say a competent writer could have gotten to that point in a short-short piece.

ISFDB 4169. OCLC 4432989 for paperback w/ ISBN 0345273389. OCLC 154120501 for hard cover w/ ISBN 0575025239.

John Varley. Lollipop and the Tar Baby.
Spider and Jeanne Robinson. Stardance.
Michael Bishop. The House of Compassionate Sharers.
Raccoona Sheldon. The Screwfly Solution. - excellent
Vona N. McIntyre. Aztects.
Lee Killough. Tropic of Eden.
Bruce McAlliser. Victor.
Lisa Tuttle. The Family Monkey.

F/SF