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Contents:

• 11 - Introduction (Every Boy's Book of Science Fiction) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• 15 - The Gravity Professor - [Tubby Maguire] - (1921) - short story by Ray Cummings
• 28 - The Four-Dimensional Roller-Press - [Four Dimensional... - 1] - (1927) - short story by Bob Olsen
• 43 - The Infra-Medians - (1931) - short story by Sewell Peaslee Wright
• 65 - The White Army - (1929) - short story by Dr. Daniel Dressler
• 101 - Dr. Lu-Mie - (1934) - short story by Clifton B. Kruse
• 121 - The Living Machine - (1935) - short story by David H. Keller, M.D.
• 143 - A Conquest of Two Worlds - (1932) - novelette by Edmond Hamilton
• 182 - The Asteroid of Gold - (1932) - short story by Clifford D. Simak
• 203 - In the Scarlet Star - (1933) - novelette by Jack Williamson
• 232 - King of the Gray Spaces - (1943) - short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of R Is for Rocket)
• 251 - Suggested Readings in Science-Fiction - essay by uncredited

Contents:

• 7 - Foreword (Flight Into Space) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• 15 - Sunward - (1940) - short story by Stanton A. Coblentz
• 29 - The Mercurian - (1941) - short story by Frank Belknap Long
• 45 - Parasite Planet - [Ham Hammond] - (1935) - novelette by Stanley G. Weinbaum
• 81 - Peril of the Blue World - (1942) - short story by Robert Abernathy
• 95 - The Death of the Moon - (1929) - short story by A. M. Phillips
• 109 - The Seekers - (1948) - short story by Robert Moore Williams
• 129 - Ajax of Ajax - [Ajax Calkins - 4] - (1942) - short story by Donald A. Wollheim
• 145 - Red Storm on Jupiter - (1936) - short story by Frank Belknap Long
• 167 - Hermit of Saturn's Ring - (1940) - short story by Neil R. Jones
• 193 - Planet Passage - (1942) - short story by Donald A. Wollheim
• 203 - A Baby on Neptune - (1929) - novelette by Miles J. Breuer, M.D. and Clare Winger Harris
• 231 - The Rape of the Solar System - (1934) - novelette by Leslie F. Stone

Each story is preceded with an introductory essay by Wollheim about the celestial body which the story uses.

This short story originally appeared in Astonishing Stories, December 1942. It has been anthologized many times, and was also included in the collection Two Dozen Dragon Eggs (1977).

It was the basis for Guillermo del Toro's 1997 movie Mimic.

Table of Contents:

• Mother by Protest - (1953) - novelette by Richard Matheson
• The Wheel - (1933) - short story by H. Warner Munn
• The Yellow Wall Paper - (1892) - short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• The Cookie Lady - (1953) - short story by Philip K. Dick
• The Spider - (1915) - novelette by Hanns Heinz Ewers (trans. of Die Spinne 1908)
• The Curse Kiss - (1930) - short story by Theodore Roscoe
• Fungus Isle - (1923) - novella by Philip M. Fisher
• The Copper Bowl - (1928) - short story by George Fielding Eliot

In "One Against the Moon" Donald A. Wollheim spins a tale about a stowaway, on the first rocket to the moon! Trapped in an underground cavern of the moon, Robin Carew faced possible death-alone! Starvation was postponed only briefly. He had the two rabbits and a monkey that had accompanied him in the untested atomic rocket not designed for human passengers. Rescue was unlikely. No one had discovered him hidden within the rocket before the blast-off. He could rely only on himself. From the moment this latter-day Robinson Crusoe discovers edible plants within the lightless cavern, hope of survival grows in him. An underground river leads him to other caverns, where he encounters weird creatures and another being one who speaks in an incomprehensible language. Thus begins a series of remarkable adventures, climaxed by the arrival of a second rocket that brings both danger and good fortune.

Here is the book that opens up the science fiction scene to the masters of Western Europe. Gathered together by Donald A. Wollheim, whose annuals of the World's Best SF are considered the most reliable indicators of what is best in the English-language sector, sf readers at last have the opportunity to meet the best sf writers of the Old World and discover for themselves new variations and unexpected approaches to all the themes of science fiction.

In this remarkable collection will be found memorable stories by Gerard Klein, Wolfgang Jeschke, Sandro Sandrelli, Domingo Santos, Sam J. Lundwall, Niels E. Nielsen, Eddy C. Bertin, N.C. Henneberg, and many more, many of whose tales have been translated for the first time for this book.

Table of Contents:

• Party Line by Gerard Klein (France)
• Pairpuppets by Manuel Van Loggem (Holland)
• The Scythe by Sandro Sandrelli (Italy)
• A Whiter Shade of Pale by Jon Bing (Norway)
• Paradise 3000 by Herbert W. Franke (Germany)
• My Eyes, They Burn! by Eddy C. Bertin (Belgium)
• A Problem in Bionics by Pierre Barbet (France)
• The King and the Dollmaker by Wolfgang Jeschke (Germany)
• Codemus by Tor Age Bringsvaerd (Norway)
• Rainy Day Revolution No. 39 by Luigi Cozzi (Italy)
• Nobody Here But Us Shadows by Sam J. Lundwall (Sweden)
• Round and Round and Round Again by Domingo Santos (Spain)
• Planet For Sale by Niels E. Nielsen (Denmark)
• Ysolde by Nathalie-Charles Henneberg (France)

Adventures in the Far Future

Contents:

• The Wind Between the Worlds - (1951) - novelette by Lester del Rey
• Stardust - (1952) - novelette by Chad Oliver
• Overdrive - (1953) - novelette by Murray Leinster
• The Millionth Year - (1943) - shortstory by Martin Pearson
• The Chapter Ends - (1954) - novelette by Poul Anderson

Tales of Outer Space

Contents:

• Doorway in the Sky - (1954) - novelette by Ralph Williams
• Here Lie We - (1953) - novelette by Fox B. Holden
• Operation Mercury - (1941) - novelette by Clifford D. Simak (variant of Masquerade)
• Lord of a Thousand Suns - (1951) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• Behind the Black Nebula - (1942) - novelette by L. Ron Hubbard (variant of The Invaders)

Men on the Moon

An anthology of short stories about the future of mankind on the moon. Stories include:

• Operation Pumice, by Raymond Z. Gallun
• Jetsam, by A. Bertram Chandler
• Reluctant Heroes, by Frank M. Robinson
• Moonwalk, by H.B. Fyfe
• Keyhole, by Murray Leinster

City on the Moon

Life on the moon under anything less than optimal conditions had always been a nightmare, and as Joe Kenmore and his colleague, Moreau, drove back to the City On The Moon on that day the Earth shuttle was due to land, the nearby mountain supporting critical elements of the shuttle's landing mechanisms crumbled causing an avalanche and resulting in chaos. Optimal conditions were no where in sight that day and as Kenmore and Moreau's investigations lead to their conclusion that explosions had been responsible for the avalanche.

Now they realized that they were in a race against the clock to restore the landing beam before the shuttle had reached it's point of no return prior to landing. Kenmore had more than strictly humanitarian reasons for wanting to prevent a mishap aboard the shuttle that day, because on this particular mission, Arlene Gray was aboard. Kenmore had been anxiously awaiting her arrival, and while in the scope of things Kenmore's comparatively meaningless love life might hang in the balance...

City On The Moon is also published as a stand alone novel.

Back to Mars! At long last - after four years of interplanetary study on Earth - Nelson Parr stepped aboard the Mars-bound space liner that was to carry him to his home planet. By the year 2120, Earth had established a colony on Mars and had explored the land - originally inhabited by Martians, a weird yet intelligent people... a vanished race. But when Nelse discovered the trhee-fingered handprint in his cabin, he couldn't help but wonder whether the intruder might have been Martian. Could it be that the Martians still lived?

The teen-ager reached Mars to hear disheartening news - the inhabitants of the red planet were ordered to return to Earth. But Nelse, his father and four other scientists disobeyed. They rocketed to Phobos, a satellite of Mars, where they set up their equipment to observe phenomena of the red planet...unaware that they, too, were being observed! When, through the telescope, they sighted strange events, it was decided that Nelse and a companion should take up a post on the other satellite, Deimos.

"Crash-landing" into a realm of space-tense adventure, Nelse - his companion murdered by outer-world beings - came to grips with the mysterious forces of space, alone. Capture, escape and capture follow one another in a dizzying spiral of desperate events to this book's hair-raising climax.

Sentinels from Space

A peril-packed novel by the acclaimed author of Men, Martians and Machines, the story involves an attack on Earth by both Venus and Mars -- and features sabotage squads with the ability to read thoughts, start fires by merely pointing a finger, and change their appearance to match anyone's. And now interplanetary agent David Raven is asked to outwit them all and restore peace.

The Ultimate Invader and Other Science-Fiction

Contents:

• The Ultimate Invader - (1954) - novella by Eric Frank Russell (variant of Design for Great-Day 1953)
• Alien Envoy - (1944) - novelette by Malcolm Jameson
• Malignant Marauder - novelette by Murray Leinster (variant of Dead City 1946)
• The Temporal Transgressor - novelette by Frank Belknap Long (variant of Bridgehead 1944)

The Earth in Peril

Contents:

• Things Pass By - (1945) - novelette by Murray Leinster
• Letter from the Stars - (1950) - shortstory by A. E. van Vogt (variant of Dear Pen Pal 1949)
• The Silly Season - (1950) - shortstory by C. M. Kornbluth
• The Plant Revolt - (1930) - novelette by Edmond Hamilton
• Mary Anonymous - (1954) - shortstory by Bryce Walton
• The Star - (1897) - shortstory by H. G. Wells

Who Speaks of Conquest?

Earth faced a choice between eventual colonization at the hands of a ruthless aggressor or immediate action against the whole galaxy! And Stephen Brady, Commander of the Terran forces, was the man to make that decision of cosmic importance.

Behind the immediate enemy--the Centaurans--the diabolical Rihnans ruled with unchallenged might, backed by the most advanced psychological and technological weapons. To attack now would be the greatest challenge the Earth would ever have to meet!

The odds were deadly, but Brady knew that if he would not speak now for conquest, he--and all Earth--might remain silent in defeat for all eternity!

Only one scientist realized the danger that threatened Earth when the Terraluna Corporation started deep-core mining operations on the moon. Dr. Emanuel Rhodes and his teen-age son, Bruce, saw that continued blasting at the moon's core would weaken the satellite's brittle structure to the extent that the small planet's breakup would be assured. The subsequent bombardment of Earth by meteorites would put an end to man!

But Terraluna's profit-hungry officials would not understand the scientist's conclusions. It was for the sake of humanity that Dr. Rhodes and his son started for Saturn's rings to prove to mankind that what had once been a hospitable and prosperous planet was now nothing more than a dangerous phenomenon.

Breath-takingly realistic in detail, this story of the Rhodes' flight into outer space explodes with action, intrigue and suspense. Terraluna spies conspired to wreck their ship. Outposts of the huge corporation fired on the courageous little crew. And in the whirling maelstrom of rock that make up Saturn's rings, danger and disaster lay in anxious wait. How Bruce outwitted the hostile elements to save his father, stranded helplessly on a bit of airless rock, leads to a surprise climax when the two discover ancient evidence of intelligent creatures. The relationship of their discovery to the Earth and its satellite presents a fascinating theory and space yarn that you won't put down until the very last page.

On the day that the theft of the solar system's light begins, Burl Denning is with an archaeological expedition in the Andes, only a few miles from the source of the "disturbance." Within hours the United States Air Force has ordered the expedition to investigate the strange phenomenon that is causing a dimness and a drop in temperature throughout the world.

This is the start of a fantastic adventure that eventually takes Burl, a high-school senior, on the first circumnavigation of the solar system. On planet after planet, he and the crew of the Magellan, a gleaming, powerful, and virtually untested spaceship, discover the weird trappings of a brilliantly-designed Sun-tap station. Each planetfall brings unexpected hazards, as the ship draws closer and closer to solving the mystery of the theft.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (World's Best Science Fiction: 1965) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
• Greenplace - (1964) - shortstory by Tom Purdom
• Men of Good Will - (1964) - shortstory by Ben Bova and Myron R. Lewis
• Bill for Delivery - [Federation of Humanity] - (1964) - shortstory by Christopher Anvil
• Four Brands of Impossible - (1964) - novelette by Norman Kagan
• A Niche in Time - (1964) - shortstory by William F. Temple
• Sea Wrack - (1964) - novelette by Edward Jesby
• For Every Action - (1964) - shortstory by C. C. MacApp
• Vampires Ltd. - (1964) - shortstory by Josef Nesvadba (trans. of Upir ltd 1962)
• The Last Lonely Man - (1964) - shortstory by John Brunner
• The Star Party - (1964) - shortstory by Robert Lory
• The Weather in the Underworld - (1964) - shortstory by Colin Free
• Oh, to Be a Blobel! - (1964) - novelette by Philip K. Dick
• The Unremembered - (1964) - shortstory by Edward Mackin
• What Happened to Sergeant Masuro? - novelette by Harry Mulisch (trans. of Wat Gebeurde er met Sergeant Massuro? 1957)
• Now Is Forever - (1964) - shortstory by Thomas M. Disch
• The Competitors - (1964) - novelette by Jack B. Lawson
• When the Change-Winds Blow - (1964) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (World's Best Science Fiction: 1966) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
• Sunjammer - (1964) - novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
• Calling Dr. Clockwork - (1965) - shortstory by Ron Goulart
• Becalmed in Hell - (1965) - shortstory by Larry Niven
• Apartness - (1965) - novelette by Vernor Vinge
• Over the River and Through the Woods - (1965) - shortstory by Clifford D. Simak
• Planet of Forgetting - (1965) - novelette by James H. Schmitz
• "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman - (1965) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Decision Makers - (1965) - novelette by Joseph Green
• Traveler's Rest - (1965) - shortstory by David I. Masson
• Uncollected Works - (1965) - shortstory by Lin Carter
• Vanishing Point - (1965) - novelette by Jonathan Brand
• In Our Block - (1965) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• Masque of the Red Shift - (1965) - novelette by Fred Saberhagen
• The Captive Djinn - (1965) - shortstory by Christopher Anvil
• The Good New Days - (1965) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (World's Best Science Fiction: 1967) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
• We Can Remember It for You Wholesale - (1966) - novelette by Philip K. Dick
• Light of Other Days - (1966) - shortstory by Bob Shaw
• The Keys to December - (1966) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
• Nine Hundred Grandmothers - (1966) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• Bircher - (1966) - novelette by A. A. Walde
• Behold the Man - (1966) - novella by Michael Moorcock
• Bumberboom - (1966) - novelette by Avram Davidson
• Day Million - (1966) - shortstory by Frederik Pohl
• The Wings of a Bat - (1966) - novelette by Paul Ash
• The Man from When - (1966) - shortstory by Dannie Plachta
• Amen and Out - (1966) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• For a Breath I Tarry - (1966) - novelette by Roger Zelazny

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (World's Best Science Fiction: 1968) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
• See Me Not - (1967) - novelette by Richard Wilson
• Driftglass - (1967) - shortstory by Samuel R. Delany
• Ambassador to Verdammt - (1967) - shortstory by Colin Kapp
• The Man Who Never Was - (1967) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• The Billiard Ball - (1967) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• Hawksbill Station - (1967) - novella by Robert Silverberg
• The Number You Have Reached - (1967) - shortstory by Thomas M. Disch
• The Man Who Loved the Faioli - (1967) - shortstory by Roger Zelazny
• Population Implosion - (1967) - novelette by Andrew J. Offutt
• I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream - (1967) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Sword Swallower - (1967) - novelette by Ron Goulart
• Coranda - (1967) - novelette by Keith Roberts
• Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne - (1967) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• Handicap - (1967) - novelette by Larry Niven
• Full Sun - (1967) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• It's Smart to Have an English Address - (1967) - shortstory by D. G. Compton

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (World's Best Science Fiction 1969) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
• Street of Dreams, Feet of Clay - (1967) - novelette by Robert Sheckley
• Backtracked - (1968) - shortstory by Burt K. Filer
• Kyrie - (1968) - shortstory by Poul Anderson
• Going Down Smooth - (1968) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• The Worm That Flies - (1968) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• Masks - (1968) - shortstory by Damon Knight
• Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones - (1968) - novelette by Samuel R. Delany
• HEMEAC - (1968) - shortstory by E. G. Von Wald
• The Cloudbuilders - (1968) - novelette by Colin Kapp
• This Grand Carcass - (1968) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• A Visit to Cleveland General - (1968) - shortstory by Sydney J. Van Scyoc
• The Selchey Kids - (1968) - novelette by Laurence Yep
• Welcome to the Monkey House - (1968) - shortstory by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• The Dance of the Changer and the Three - (1968) - shortstory by Terry Carr
• Sword Game - (1968) - shortstory by H. H. Hollis
• Total Environment - (1968) - novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
• The Square Root of Brain - (1968) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
• Starsong - (1968) - shortstory by Fred Saberhagen
• Fear Hound - (1968) - novelette by Katherine MacLean

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (World's Best Science Fiction: 1970) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
• A Man Spekith - (1969) - novelette by Richard Wilson
• After the Myths Went Home - (1969) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• Death by Ecstasy - (1969) - novella by Larry Niven
• One Sunday in Neptune - (1969) - shortstory by Alexei Panshin
• For the Sake of Grace - (1969) - novelette by Suzette Haden Elgin
• Your Haploid Heart - (1969) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Therapy 2000 - (1969) - shortstory by Keith Roberts
• Sixth Sense - (1969) - shortstory by Michael G. Coney
• A Boy and His Dog - (1969) - novella by Harlan Ellison
• And So Say All of Us - (1969) - shortstory by Bruce McAllister
• Ship of Shadows - (1969) - novella by Fritz Leiber
• Nine Lives - (1969) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Big Flash - (1969) - novelette by Norman Spinrad

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (World's Best Science Fiction: 1971) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
• Slow Sculpture - (1970) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• Bird in the Hand - (1970) - novelette by Larry Niven
• Ishmael in Love - (1970) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• Invasion of Privacy - (1970) - novelette by Bob Shaw
• Waterclap - (1970) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• Continued on Next Rock - (1970) - novelette by R. A. Lafferty
• The Thing in the Stone - (1970) - novelette by Clifford D. Simak
• Nobody Lives on Burton Street - (1970) - shortstory by Gregory Benford
• Whatever Became of the McGowans? - (1970) - novelette by Michael G. Coney
• The Last Time Around - (1968) - novelette by Arthur Sellings
• Greyspun's Gift - (1970) - shortstory by Neal Barrett, Jr.
• The Shaker Revival - (1970) - novelette by Gerald Jonas
• Dear Aunt Annie - (1970) - novelette by Gordon Eklund
• Confessions - (1970) - novelette by Ron Goulart
• Gone Are the Lupo - (1970) - shortstory by H. B. Hickey

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The 1972 Annual World's Best SF) - (1972) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• The Fourth Profession - (1971) - novelette by Larry Niven
• Gleepsite - (1971) - shortstory by Joanna Russ
• The Bear with the Knot on His Tail - (1971) - novelette by Stephen Tall
• The Sharks of Pentreath - (1971) - shortstory by Michael G. Coney
• A Little Knowledge - (1971) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• Real-Time World - (1971) - novelette by Christopher Priest
• All Pieces of a River Shore - (1970) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• With Friends Like These... - (1971) - shortstory by Alan Dean Foster
• Aunt Jennie's Tonic - (1971) - shortstory by Leonard Tushnet
• Timestorm - (1971) - shortstory by Eddy C. Bertin (trans. of Tijdstorm)
• Transit of Earth - (1971) - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
• Gehenna - (1971) - shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg
• One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty - (1970) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Occam's Scalpel - (1971) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The 1973 Annual World's Best SF) - (1973) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• Goat Song - (1972) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• The Man Who Walked Home - (1972) - shortstory by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Oh, Valinda! - (1972) - novelette by Michael G. Coney
• The Gold at the Starbow's End - (1972) - novella by Frederik Pohl
• To Walk a City's Street - (1972) - shortstory by Clifford D. Simak
• Rorqual Maru - (1972) - novelette by T. J. Bass
• Changing Woman - (1972) - shortstory by W. Macfarlane
• "Willie's Blues" - (1972) - novelette by Robert J. Tilley
• Long Shot - (1972) - shortstory by Vernor Vinge
• Thus Love Betrays Us - (1972) - shortstory by Phyllis MacLennon

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The 1974 Annual World's Best SF) - (1974) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• A Suppliant in Space - (1973) - novelette by Robert Sheckley
• Parthen - (1973) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• Doomship - [Cuckoo] - (1973) - novella by Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson
• Weed of Time - (1970) - shortstory by Norman Spinrad
• A Modest Genius - (1973) - shortstory by Vadim Shefner (trans. of 1963)
• The Deathbird - (1973) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• Evane - (1973) - shortstory by E. C. Tubb
• Moby, Too - (1973) - novelette by Gordon Eklund
• Death and Designation Among the Asadi - (1973) - novella by Michael Bishop
• Construction Shack - (1973) - shortstory by Clifford D. Simak

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The 1975 Annual World's Best SF) - (1975) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• A Song for Lya - (1974) - novella by George R. R. Martin
• Deathsong - (1974) - novella by Sydney J. Van Scyoc
• A Full Member of the Club - (1974) - novelette by Bob Shaw
• The Sun's Tears - (1974) - shortstory by Brian Stableford
• The Gift of Garigolli - (1974) - novelette by C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl
• The Four-Hour Fugue - (1974) - shortstory by Alfred Bester
• Twig - (1974) - novelette by Gordon R. Dickson
• Cathadonian Odyssey - (1974) - shortstory by Michael Bishop
• The Bleeding Man - (1974) - novelette by Craig Strete
• Stranger in Paradise - (1974) - novelette by Isaac Asimov

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The 1976 Annual World's Best SF) - (1976) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• Catch That Zeppelin! - (1975) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
• The Peddler's Apprentice - (1975) - novelette by Joan D. Vinge and Vernor Vinge
• The Bees of Knowledge - (1975) - novelette by Barrington J. Bayley
• The Storms of Windhaven - (1975) - novella by George R. R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle
• The Engineer and the Executioner - (1975) - novelette by Brian Stableford
• Allegiances - (1975) - novella by Michael Bishop
• Child of All Ages - (1975) - shortstory by P. J. Plauger
• Helbent 4 - (1975) - novelette by Stephen Robinett
• The Protocols of the Elders of Britain - (1974) - shortstory by John Brunner
• The Custodians - (1975) - novelette by Richard Cowper

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The 1977 Annual World's Best SF) - (1977) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• Appearance of Life - (1976) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• Overdrawn at the Memory Bank - (1976) - novelette by John Varley
• Those Good Old Days of Liquid Fuel - (1976) - shortstory by Michael G. Coney
• The Hertford Manuscript - (1976) - novelette by Richard Cowper
• Natural Advantage - (1976) - shortstory by Lester del Rey
• The Bicentennial Man - (1976) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• The Cabinet of Oliver Naylor - (1976) - novelette by Barrington J. Bayley
• My Boat - (1976) - shortstory by Joanna Russ
• Houston, Houston, Do You Read? - (1976) - novella by James Tiptree, Jr.
• I See You - (1976) - shortstory by Damon Knight

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The 1978 Annual World's Best SF) - (1978) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• In the Hall of the Martian Kings - (1976) - novella by John Varley
• A Time to Live - (1977) - shortstory by Joe Haldeman
• The House of Compassionate Sharers - (1977) - novelette by Michael Bishop
• Particle Theory - (1977) - shortstory by Edward Bryant
• The Taste of the Dish and the Savor of the Day - (1977) - novelette by John Brunner
• Jeffty Is Five - (1977) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Screwfly Solution - (1977) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Eyes of Amber - (1977) - novelette by Joan D. Vinge
• Child of the Sun - (1977) - novelette by James E. Gunn
• Brother - (1977) - novelette by Clifford D. Simak

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The 1979 Annual World's Best SF) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• Come to the Party - (1978) - novelette by Frank Herbert and F. M. Busby
• Creator - (1978) - novelette by David J. Lake
• Dance Band on the Titanic - (1978) - novelette by Jack L. Chalker
• Cassandra - (1978) - shortstory by C. J. Cherryh
• In Alien Flesh - (1978) - novelette by Gregory Benford
• SQ - (1978) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Persistence of Vision - (1978) - novella by John Varley
• We Who Stole the Dream - (1978) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Scattershot - (1978) - novelette by Greg Bear
• Carruthers' Last Stand - (1978) - novelette by Dan Henderson

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The 1980 Annual World's Best SF) - (1980) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• The Way of Cross and Dragon - (1979) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
• The Thirteenth Utopia - (1979) - shortstory by S. P. Somtow
• Options - (1979) - novelette by John Varley
• Unaccompanied Sonata - (1979) - shortstory by Orson Scott Card
• The Story Writer - (1979) - novella by Richard Wilson
• Daisy, in the Sun - (1979) - shortstory by Connie Willis
• The Locusts - (1979) - novelette by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
• The Thaw - (1979) - novelette by Tanith Lee
• Out There Where the Big Ships Go - (1979) - novelette by Richard Cowper
• Can These Bones Live? - (1979) - shortstory by Ted Reynolds
• The Extraordinary Voyages of Amélie Bertrand - (1979) - shortstory by Joanna Russ

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The 1981 Annual World's Best SF) - (1981) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• Variation on a Theme from Beethoven - (1980) - novelette by Sharon Webb
• Beatnik Bayou - (1980) - novelette by John Varley
• Elbow Room - (1980) - novelette by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• The Ugly Chickens - (1980) - novelette by Howard Waldrop
• Prime Time - (1980) - shortstory by Norman Spinrad
• Nightflyers - (1980) - novella by George R. R. Martin
• A Spaceship Built of Stone - (1980) - shortstory by Lisa Tuttle
• Window - (1980) - shortstory by Bob Leman
• The Summer Sweet, the Winter Wild - (1980) - shortstory by Michael G. Coney
• Achronos - (1980) - shortstory by Lee Killough

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The 1982 Annual World's Best SF) - (1982) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• Blind Spot - (1981) - shortstory by Jayge Carr
• Highliner - (1981) - novelette by C. J. Cherryh
• The Pusher - (1981) - shortstory by John Varley
• Polyphemus - (1981) - novella by Michael Shea
• Absent Thee from Felicity Awhile... - (1981) - shortstory by S. P. Somtow
• Out of the Everywhere - (1981) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Slac// - (1981) - novelette by Michael P. Kube-McDowell
• The Cyphertone - (1981) - shortstory by S. C. Sykes
• Through All Your Houses Wandering - (1981) - novella by Ted Reynolds
• The Last Day of Christmas - (1981) - novelette by David J. Lake

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The 1983 Annual World's Best SF) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• The Scourge - (1982) - novella by James White
• A Letter from the Clearys - (1982) - shortstory by Connie Willis
• Farmer on the Dole - (1982) - novelette by Frederik Pohl
• Playing the Game - (1982) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
• Pawn's Gambit - (1982) - novelette by Timothy Zahn
• The Comedian - (1982) - shortstory by Tim Sullivan
• Written in Water - (1982) - shortstory by Tanith Lee
• Souls - (1982) - novella by Joanna Russ
• Swarm - (1982) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
• Peg-Man - (1982) - shortstory by Rudy Rucker

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The 1984 Annual World's Best SF) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• Blood Music - (1983) - novelette by Greg Bear
• Potential - (1983) - shortstory by Isaac Asimov
• Knight of Shallows - (1983) - novelette by Rand B. Lee
• Spending a Day at the Lottery Fair - (1983) - shortstory by Frederik Pohl
• In the Face of My Enemy - (1983) - novella by Joseph H. Delaney
• The Nanny - (1983) - novelette by Thomas Wylde
• The Leaves of October - (1983) - novelette by Don Sakers
• As Time Goes By - (1983) - shortstory by Tanith Lee
• The Harvest of Wolves - (1983) - shortstory by Mary Gentle
• Homefaring - (1983) - novella by Robert Silverberg

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The 1985 Annual World's Best SF) - (1985) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• The Picture Man - (1984) - shortstory by John Dalmas
• Cash Crop - (1984) - novelette by Connie Willis
• We Remember Babylon - (1984) - novelette by Ian Watson
• What Makes Us Human - (1984) - novelette by Stephen R. Donaldson
• Salvador - (1984) - shortstory by Lucius Shepard
• Press Enter [] - (1984) - novella by John Varley
• The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything - (1984) - shortstory by George Alec Effinger
• Bloodchild - (1984) - novelette by Octavia E. Butler
• The Coming of the Goonga - (1984) - shortstory by Gary W. Shockley
• Medra - (1984) - shortstory by Tanith Lee

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The 1986 Annual World's Best SF) - (1986) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• Earthgate - (1985) - novelette by J. Brian Clarke
• On the Dream Channel Panel - (1985) - shortstory by Ian Watson
• The Gods of Mars - (1985) - novelette by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann and Michael Swanwick
• The Jaguar Hunter - (1985) - novelette by Lucius Shepard
• Sailing to Byzantium - (1985) - novella by Robert Silverberg
• Webrider - (1985) - shortstory by Jayge Carr
• With Virgil Oddum at the East Pole - (1985) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Curse of Kings - (1985) - novella by Connie Willis
• Fermi and Frost - (1985) - shortstory by Frederik Pohl
• Pots - (1985) - novelette by C. J. Cherryh

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The 1987 Annual World's Best SF) - (1987) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• Permafrost - (1986) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
• Timerider - (1986) - novelette by Doris Egan
• Pretty Boy Crossover - (1986) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
• R & R - (1986) - novella by Lucius Shepard
• Lo, How an Oak E'er Blooming - (1986) - shortstory by Suzette Haden Elgin
• Dream in a Bottle - (1986) - shortstory by Jerry Meredith and D. E. Smirl
• Into Gold - (1986) - novelette by Tanith Lee
• The Lions Are Asleep This Night - (1986) - novelette by Howard Waldrop
• Against Babylon - (1986) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
• Strangers on Paradise - (1986) - shortstory by Damon Knight

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The 1988 Annual World's Best SF) - (1988) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• The Pardoner's Tale - (1987) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• Rachel in Love - (1987) - novelette by Pat Murphy
• America - (1987) - novelette by Orson Scott Card
• Crying in the Rain - (1987) - shortstory by Tanith Lee
• The Sun Spider - (1987) - novelette by Lucius Shepard
• Angel - (1987) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
• Forever Yours, Anna - (1987) - shortstory by Kate Wilhelm
• Second Going - (1987) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Dinosaurs - (1987) - novelette by Walter Jon Williams
• All Fall Down - (1987) - novelette by Don Sakers

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Isaac Asimov
• The Giving Plague - (1988) - shortstory by David Brin
• Peaches for Mad Molly - (1988) - novelette by Steven Gould
• Shaman - (1988) - novelette by John Shirley
• Schrödinger's Kitten - (1988) - novelette by George Alec Effinger
• The Flies of Memory - (1988) - novella by Ian Watson
• Skin Deep - (1988) - shortstory by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• A Madonna of the Machine - (1988) - novelette by Tanith Lee
• Waiting for the Olympians - (1988) - novelette by Frederik Pohl
• Ain't Nothin' But a Hound Dog - (1988) - shortstory by B. W. Clough
• Adrift Among the Ghosts - (1988) - shortstory by Jack L. Chalker
• Ripples in the Dirac Sea - (1988) - shortstory by Geoffrey A. Landis

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The 1990 Annual World's Best SF) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• Alphas - (1989) - novelette by Gregory Benford
• The Magic Bullet - (1989) - novelette by Brian Stableford
• North of the Abyss - (1989) - novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
• Chiprunner - (1989) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• Abe Lincoln in McDonald's - (1989) - shortstory by James Morrow
• Death Ship - (1989) - shortfiction by Barrington J. Bayley
• In Translation - (1989) - shortfiction by Lisa Tuttle
• A Sleep and a Forgetting - (1989) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• Not Without Honor - (1989) - novelette by Judith Moffett
• Dogwalker - (1989) - novelette by Orson Scott Card
• Surrender - (1989) - novelette by Lucius Shepard
• War Fever - (1989) - novelette by J. G. Ballard