The Year's Best Science Fiction 10

The last two selections for this year are both concerned with the sort of Immortality that gets capitalized—that of the gods, the demigods, the saints and angels.

There are virtually no other similarities, between stories or authors.

Robert Rohrer is a nineteen-year-old student at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia—another of the Wunderkinder, who reports that he wrote his first salable story at thirteen, and sold it two years later. “I like music; I play the piano, and write more than I study. ... My father is a physics professor and can’t understand why I’m not a scientist.”

Isaac Bashevis Singer was born in Radzymin, Poland, in 1904. He came to the United States in 1935, and has worked since then as writer and book reviewer for the Jewish Daily Forward in New York. He has received awards and grants in several countries for his work, and his stories have been appearing, over the last two or three years, in most of the “quality” magazines in this country.