The Best Science Fiction of the Year 10

The Best Science Fiction of the Year #10
Cover of first edition, 1981
EditorTerry Carr
LanguageEnglish
SeriesThe Best Science Fiction of the Year
GenreScience fiction
PublisherPocket Books
Publication date
1981
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages434
ISBN0-671-42262-6
Preceded byThe Best Science Fiction of the Year 9 
Followed byThe Best Science Fiction of the Year 11 

The Best Science Fiction of the Year #10 is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Terry Carr, the tenth volume in a series of sixteen. It was first published in paperback by Pocket Books in July 1981, and in trade paperback and hardcover and trade paperback (the latter under the slightly variant title The Best Science Fiction of the Year: No. 10) by Gollancz in the same year.

The book collects twelve novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introduction, notes and concluding essays by Carr and Charles N. Brown. The stories were previously published in 1980 in the magazines Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, TriQuarterly, Playboy, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, and the anthologies New Voices III: The Campbell Award Nominees, Universe 10, Their Immortal Hearts, and Interfaces.