The 1980 Annual World's Best SF

The 1980 Annual World's Best SF

Cover of first edition, 1980
Author	edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
Cover artist	Jack Gaughan
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	The Annual World’s Best SF
Genre	Science fiction short stories
Publisher	DAW Books
Publication date	1980
Media type	Print (paperback)
Pages	284 pp.
ISBN
Preceded by	The 1979 Annual World's Best SF
Followed by	The 1981 Annual World's Best SF

The 1980 Annual World's Best SF is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha, the ninth volume in a series of nineteen. It was first published in paperback by DAW Books in May 1980, followed by a hardcover edition issued in September of the same year by the same publisher as a selection of the Science Fiction Book Club. For the hardcover edition the original cover art of Jack Gaughan was replaced by a new cover painting by Gary Viskupik. The paperback edition was later reissued by DAW under the variant title Wollheim's World's Best SF: Series Nine.

The book collects eleven novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introduction by Wollheim. The stories were previously published in 1979 in the magazines Omni, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, Destinies, Galileo, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and the anthology Universe 9.

The anthology placed eleventh in the 1981 Locus Poll Award for Best Anthology.

"The Way of Cross and Dragon" won the 1980 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, placed first in the Locus Poll Award for Best Short Story, and was nominated for the 1979 Nebula Award for Best Short Story.