In article <uq3lko$25s5k$[email protected]>,
Tony Nance <[email protected]> wrote:

On 2/7/24 10:47 AM, Jack Bohn wrote:

James Nicoll wrote:

SF 12 (The Year's Best S-F,volume 12) edited by Judith Merril

The 12th and final entry (not counting retrospective volumes) in
Merril's Best S-F series, which was afaik was the sole Best SF
anthology series helmed by a lone woman in the 20th Century.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/starry-notions

And that's another project finished.

I'm a bit confused by your puzzlement that "The Star Pit" was not

included in _The Hugo Winners, Volume Two_. "Star Pit," though a
finalist, was not a winner.

There was a winning story left out of Volume Two, it was Leiber's

"Ship of Shadows." It was printed first in Volume Three, with an
apology and a facetious excuse that the title "Time Considered As a
Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" was so long that the editor thought it
covered both stories.

I just realized I have read The Star Pit as part of a Tor double with >Varley's Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo. I remember the Varley story
pretty well, but I cannot remember squat about the Delany story, which
is very unusual (with respect to what I've read of Delany).

Maybe time for a re-read?
Tony

I remember a key insight about an artifact the protag has in "The
Star Pit", but very little else about the plot or setting, or why
the insight was important to his life.
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