Ace Science Fiction Specials are three series of science fiction books published by Ace Books between the late 1960s and the mid 1980s.

The dates given are the dates of publication by Ace; some are first editions and some are reprints. Also given, where known, is the Ace serial number. The serial number given is that of the first printing by Ace, in the Ace Science Fiction Special series.

Series 1

This series was edited by Terry Carr, while he was working at Ace as an editor.

• James H. Schmitz The Witches of Karres (1968, A-13)
• Alexei Panshin Rite of Passage (1968, A-16)
• Piers Anthony and Robert E. Margroff The Ring (1968, A-19)
• James Blish and Norman L. Knight A Torrent of Faces (1968, A-29)
• Clifford Simak Why Call Them Back From Heaven?(1968, H-42)
• R. A. Lafferty Past Master (1968, H-54)
• Gertrude Friedberg The Revolving Boy (1968, H-58)
• Wilson Tucker The Lincoln Hunters (1968, H-62)
• Joanna Russ Picnic on Paradise (1968, H-72)
• Bob Shaw The Two-Timers (1968, H-79)
• D. G. Compton Synthajoy (1968, H-86)
• James H. Schmitz The Demon Breed (1968, H-105)
• Ursula K. Le Guin A Wizard of Earthsea (1968, 90075)
• Keith Roberts Pavane (1968, 65430)
• Michael Moorcock The Black Corridor (1968, 06530)
• John Brunner The Jagged Orbit (1969, 38120)
• D. G. Compton The Silent Multitudes (1969, 78385)
• Roger Zelazny Isle of the Dead (1969, 37465)
• R. A. Lafferty Fourth Mansions (1969, 24590)
• Bob Shaw The Palace of Eternity (1969, 65050)
• John T. Sladek Mechasm (1969, 71435)
• Ursula K. Le Guin The Left Hand of Darkness (1969, 47800)
• Avram Davidson The Island Under the Earth (1969, 37425)
• Avram Davidson The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969, 66100)
• Philip K. Dick The Preserving Machine (1969, 67800)
• R. A. Lafferty Nine Hundred Grandmothers (1970, 58050)
• D. G. Compton Chronocules (1970, 10480)
• Joanna Russ And Chaos Died (1970, 02268)
• Bob Shaw One Million Tomorrows (1970, 62938)
• Wilson Tucker The Year of the Quiet Sun (1970, 99420)
• D. G. Compton The Steel Crocodile (1970, 78575)
• Ron Goulart After Things Fell Apart(1970, 00950)
• John Brunner The Traveler in Black (1971, 82210)
• Gerard F. Conway The Midnight Dancers (1971, 52975)
• Gordon Eklund The Eclipse of Dawn (1971, 18630)
• Suzette Haden Elgin Furthest (1971, 25950)
• Bruce McAllister Humanity Prime (1971, 34900)
• Michael Moorcock The Warlord of the Air (1971, 87060)

Series 2

• Mary Staton From the Legend of Biel (1975, 25460)
• D. D. Chapman and Deloris Lehman Tarzan Red Tide (1975, 71160)
• Marion Zimmer Bradley Endless Voyage (1975, 20660)
• Stanislaw Lem The Invincible (1975, 37170)
• Felix C. Gotschalk Growing Up in Tier 3000 (1975, 30420)
• Walt Richmond and Leigh Richmond Challenge the Hellmaker (1976, 10150)
• Burnett Swann Lady of the Bees (1976, 46850)
• Thomas Burnett Swann The Tournament of Thorns (1976, 81900)
• William Barton A Plague of All Cowards (1976, 66780)
• Bob Shaw Orbitsville (1977, 63780)
• Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Time of the Fourth Horseman (1976, 81189)

Series 3

By this time Terry Carr was no longer working as an Ace employee. He returned on a freelance basis to edit this series.

• Kim Stanley Robinson The Wild Shore (1984, 88870)
• Carter Scholz and Glenn Harcourt Palimpsests (1984, 65065)
• Lucius Shepard Green Eyes (1984, 30274)
• Howard Waldrop Them Bones (1984, 80557)
• William Gibson Neuromancer (1984, 56956)
• Michael Swanwick In the Drift (1985, 35869)
• Jack McDevitt The Hercules Text (1986, 37367)
• Loren J. MacGregor The Net (1987, 56941)
• Richard Kadrey Metrophage (1988, 52813)
• Ted Reynolds The Tides of God (1989, 80894)
• Claudia O'Keefe Black Snow Days (1990, 06689)
• Gregory Feeley The Oxygen Barons (1990, 64571)

Ref. article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_Science_Fiction_Specials