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The book collects twelve novelettes and short stories by various fantasy authors, deemed by the editor the best from the period represented, together with an introductory survey of the year in fantasy, an essay on the year's best fantasy books, and introductory notes to the individual stories by the
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January 1980. Despite the anthology's title, it gathers together pieces originally published during a three-year period, 1978 to 1980, with the preponderance of them from 1978. One story, "The Troll" by T. H. White, was originally published in 1935.
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16:1980 anthology edited by Lin Carter
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321:"The Year's Best Fantasy Books" (
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502:By the Light of the Green Star
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222:"The Year in Fantasy" (
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838:The Castle of Terror
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