The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12

The Best Science Fiction of the Year #12
Cover of first edition, 1983
EditorTerry Carr
LanguageEnglish
SeriesThe Best Science Fiction of the Year
GenreScience fiction
PublisherPocket Books
Publication date
1983
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages357
ISBN0-671-46680-1
Preceded byThe Best Science Fiction of the Year 11 
Followed byThe Best Science Fiction of the Year 13 

The Best Science Fiction of the Year #12 is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Terry Carr, the twelfth volume in a series of sixteen. It was first published in paperback by Pocket Books in July 1983, and in hardcover by Gollancz in the same year.

The book collects thirteen 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 1982 in the magazines The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Omni, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, The New Yorker, and Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, and the anthologies Perpetual Light and Universe 12.