Search Worlds Without End

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Martin H. Greenberg and Terry Carr
• The Rats in the Walls - (1924) - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• The Woman of the Wood - (1926) - novelette by A. Merritt
• Trouble with Water - (1939) - short story by H. L. Gold
• Thirteen O'Clock - (1941) - novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
• The Coming of the White Worm - (1941) - short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• Yesterday Was Monday - (1941) - short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• They Bite - (1943) - short story by Anthony Boucher
• Call Him Demon - (1946) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
• Daemon - (1946) - short story by C. L. Moore
• The Black Ferris - (1948) - short story by Ray Bradbury
• Displaced Person - (1948) - short story by Eric Frank Russell
• Our Fair City - (1949) - short story by Robert A. Heinlein
• Come and Go Mad - (1949) - novelette by Fredric Brown
• There Shall Be No Darkness - (1950) - novelette by James Blish
• The Loom of Darkness - (1950) - short story by Jack Vance
• The Rag Thing - (1951) - short story by Donald A. Wollheim
• Sail On! Sail On! - (1952) - short story by Philip José Farmer
• One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts - (1955) - short story by Shirley Jackson
• That Hell-Bound Train - (1958) - short story by Robert Bloch
• Nine Yards of Other Cloth - (1958) - short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• The Montavarde Camera - (1959) - short story by Avram Davidson
• Man Overboard - (1960) - novelette by John Collier
• My Dear Emily - (1962) - short story by Joanna Russ
• Descending - (1964) - short story by Thomas M. Disch
• Four Ghosts in Hamlet - (1965) - novelette by Fritz Leiber
• Divine Madness - (1966) - short story by Roger Zelazny
• Narrow Valley - (1966) - short story by R. A. Lafferty
• Timothy - (1966) - short story by Keith Roberts
• Longtooth - (1970) - novelette by Edgar Pangborn
• Through a Glass - Darkly - (1970) - novelette by Zenna Henderson
• Piper at the Gates of Dawn - (1976) - novella by Richard Cowper
• Jeffty Is Five - (1977) - short story by Harlan Ellison
• Within the Walls of Tyre - (1978) - novelette by Michael Bishop

Contents:

• 7 - Introduction (An Exaltation of Stars) - essay by Terry Carr
• 11 - The Feast of St. Dionysus - novella by Robert Silverberg
• 71 - 'Kjwalll'kje'k'koothaïlll'kje'k - [Nemo] - novella by Roger Zelazny
• 141 - My Brother Leopold - [Tales of a Darkening World] - novelette by Edgar Pangborn

Several millenia in the future, Earth has become a backwater planet ignored by others in its galaxy. Its one jewel is Cirque, the city on the Abyss, into which the river Fundament falls in magnificent cataracts. It is a city of love and harmony, with inspiring religious rites. But in that abyss there lives the beast: loathsome to imagine, frightening to confront, for it is formed of the cast off hates of the people of Cirque. A beast whose body is refuse, whose mind is as black as sin, and now, after centuries, it is climbing out of the abyss to claims its own.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Terry Carr
• Greenslaves - (1965) - novelette by Frank Herbert
• A Better Mousehole - (1965) - shortstory by Edgar Pangborn
• Ballenger's People - (1967) - shortstory by Kris Neville
• King Solomon's Ring - (1963) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
• Sundance - (1969) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• Be Merry - (1966) - novelette by Algis Budrys
• Under the Dragon's Tail - (1966) - shortstory by R. S. Richardson
• A Taste for Dostoevsky - (1967) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• Cyclops - (1965) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
• Goblin Night - (1965) - novelette by James H. Schmitz

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1966) - essay by Terry Carr
• The Star - (1955) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• A Sound of Thunder - (1952) - short story by Ray Bradbury
• The Year of the Jackpot - (1952) - novelette by Robert A. Heinlein
• The Man with English - (1953) - short story by H. L. Gold
• In Hiding - (1948) - novelette by Wilmar H. Shiras
• Not with a Bang - (1950) - short story by Damon Knight
• Love Called This Thing - (1959) - short story by Avram Davidson and Laura Goforth
• The Weapon - (1951) - short story by Fredric Brown
• What's It Like Out There? - (1952) - novelette by Edmond Hamilton

Hugo and Nebula Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in the anthology The Farthest Reaches (1968), edited by Joseph Elder. It can also be found in the anthologies World's Best Science Fiction: 1969, edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr, Nebula Award Stories Four (1969), edited by Poul Anderson, Deep Space: Eight Stories of Science Fiction (1973), edited by Robert Silverberg and The Road to Science Fiction 4: From Here to Forever (1982), edited by James Gunn. It is included in the collection The Light at the End of the Universe (1976).

Terry Carr has been called the editor with impeccable taste, the man who knows which stories will be Hugo and Nebula award winners months before he puts them in his justly famous Best SF of the Year series. There are 15 stories in this anthology. Judge for yourself. He is the fantasist of the first rank.

Table of Contents:

• Nice Guys Finish Somewhere in the Middle - essay by Harlan Ellison
• The Dance of the Changer and the Three - (1968) - shortstory
• The Winds at Starmont - (1973) - novella
• Ozymandias - (1972) - shortstory
• Rejoice, Rejoice, We Have No Choice - (1974) - shortstory
• Hop-Friend - (1962) - shortstory
• Touchstone - (1964) - shortstory
• Brown Robert - (1962) - shortstory
• Changing of the Gods - (1973) - novelette
• Stanley Toothbrush - (1962) - shortstory
• The Colors of Fear - (1974) - shortstory
• Sleeping Beauty - (1967) - shortstory
• In His Image - (1973) - shortstory
• The Old Man of the Mountains - (1963) - shortstory
• The Robots Are Here - (1967) - novelette
• They Live on Levels - (1973) - shortstory

Table of Contents:

• Roog (1953) - short story by Philip K. Dick
• The Blue Lenses (1959) - novelette by Daphne du Maurier
• Shipshape Home (1952) - short story by Richard Matheson
• Eight O'Clock in the Morning (1963) - short story by Ray Nelson
• The Six Fingers of Time (1960) - novelette by R. A. Lafferty
• Be My Guest (1958) - novella by Damon Knight
• They (1941) - short story by Robert A. Heinlein

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Terry Carr
• The Reality Trip - (1970) - short story by Robert Silverberg
• This Mortal Mountain - (1967) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
• Sundown - (1967) - novelette by David Redd
• Toys - (1967) - short story by Tom Purdom
• Ride a Tin Can - (1970) - short story by R. A. Lafferty
• The Last Crusade - (1955) - short story by George H. Smith
• Resident Witch - (1970) - novelette by James H. Schmitz
• ...And the Stagnation of the Heart - (1968) - short story by Brian W. Aldiss

The Star Wasps

Cybernetic men versus the invisible monster.

Warlord of Kor

Backward world - or secret outpost of another galaxy?

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Terry Carr
• Occam's Scalpel - (1971) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• The Queen of Air and Darkness - (1971) - novella by Poul Anderson
• In Entropy's Jaws - (1971) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
• The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World - (1971) - shortstory by Philip José Farmer
• A Meeting With Medusa - (1971) - novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
• The Frayed String on the Stretched Forefinger of Time - (1971) - shortstory by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
• How Can We Sink When We Can Fly? - (1971) - novelette by Alexei Panshin
• No Direction Home - (1971) - shortstory by Norman Spinrad
• Vaster Than Empires and More Slow - (1971) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• All the Last Wars at Once - (1971) - shortstory by George Alec Effinger
• The Fourth Profession - (1971) - novelette by Larry Niven

Table of Contents:

• Honorable Mentions - 1972 - essay by Terry Carr
• Introduction - essay by Terry Carr
• The Meeting - (1972) - shortstory by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth
• Nobody's Home - (1972) - shortstory by Joanna Russ
• Fortune Hunter - (1972) - shortstory by Poul Anderson
• The Fifth Head of Cerberus - (1972) - novella by Gene Wolfe
• Caliban - (1972) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• Conversational Mode - (1972) - shortstory by Grahame Leman
• Their Thousandth Season - (1972) - shortstory by Edward Bryant
• Eurema's Dam - (1972) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• Zero Gee - (1972) - novelette by Ben Bova
• Sky Blue - (1972) - shortstory by Alexei Panshin and Cory Panshin
• Miss Omega Raven - (1972) - shortstory by Naomi Mitchison
• Patron of the Arts - (1972) - novelette by William Rotsler
• Grasshopper Time - (1972) - shortstory by Gordon Eklund
• Hero - (1972) - novella by Joe Haldeman
• When We Went to See the End of the World - (1972) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• Painwise - (1972) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Terry Carr
• Something Up There Likes Me - (1973) - shortstory by Alfred Bester
• The World as Will and Wallpaper - (1973) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• Breckenridge and the Continuum - (1973) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
• Rumfuddle - (1973) - novella by Jack Vance
• Tell Me All About Yourself - (1973) - shortstory by F. M. Busby
• The Deathbird - (1973) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand - (1973) - novelette by Vonda N. McIntyre
• The Death of Dr. Island - (1973) - novella by Gene Wolfe
• The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - (1973) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Sketches Among the Ruins of My Mind - (1973) - novelette by Philip José Farmer
• The Women Men Don't See - (1973) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Honorable Mentions - 1973 - essay by Terry Carr

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Terry Carr
• We Purchased People - (1974) - shortstory by Frederik Pohl
• Pale Roses - (1974) - novelette by Michael Moorcock
• The Hole Man - (1974) - shortstory by Larry Niven
• Born with the Dead - (1974) - novella by Robert Silverberg
• The Author of the Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics - (1974) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Dark Icarus - (1974) - shortstory by Bob Shaw
• A Little Something for Us Tempunauts - (1974) - novelette by Philip K. Dick
• On Venus, Have We Got a Rabbi - (1974) - novelette by William Tenn
• The Engine at Heartspring's Center - (1974) - shortstory by Roger Zelazny
• If the Stars Are Gods - (1974) - novelette by Gordon Eklund and Gregory Benford
• Honorable Mentions - 1974 - essay by Terry Carr
• The Science Fiction Year (1974) - essay by Charles N. Brown

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Terry Carr
• Down to a Sunless Sea - (1975) - novelette by Cordwainer Smith and Genevieve Linebarger
• Retrograde Summer - (1975) - novelette by John Varley
• The Hero as Werwolf - (1975) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• The Silent Eyes of Time - (1975) - novella by Algis Budrys
• Croatoan - (1975) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Doing Lennon - (1975) - shortstory by Gregory Benford
• The New Atlantis - (1975) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Clay Suburb - (1975) - shortstory by Robert F. Young
• The Storms of Windhaven - (1975) - novella by George R. R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle
• Child of All Ages - (1975) - shortstory by P. J. Plauger
• In the Bowl - (1975) - novelette by John Varley
• Sail the Tide of Mourning - (1975) - shortstory by Richard A. Lupoff
• Recommended Reading - 1975 - essay by Terry Carr
• The Science Fiction Year (1975) - essay by Charles N. Brown

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Terry Carr
• I See You - (1976) - shortstory by Damon Knight
• The Phantom of Kansas - (1976) - novelette by John Varley
• Seeing - (1976) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• The Death of Princes - (1976) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
• The Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Awful Things to Rats - (1976) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• The Eyeflash Miracles - (1976) - novella by Gene Wolfe
• An Infinite Summer - (1976) - novelette by Christopher Priest
• The Highest Dive - (1976) - shortstory by Jack Williamson
• Meathouse Man - (1976) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
• Custer's Last Jump - (1976) - novelette by Steven Utley and Howard Waldrop
• The Bicentennial Man - (1976) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• Recommended Reading - 1976 - essay by Terry Carr
• The Science Fiction Year (1976) - essay by Charles N. Brown

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Terry Carr
• Lollipop and the Tar Baby - (1977) - novelette by John Varley
• Stardance - (1977) - novella by Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson
• The House of Compassionate Sharers - (1977) - novelette by Michael Bishop
• The Screwfly Solution - (1977) - novelette by Raccoona Sheldon
• Aztecs - (1977) - novella by Vonda N. McIntyre
• Tropic of Eden - (1977) - shortstory by Lee Killough
• Victor - (1977) - shortstory by Bruce McAllister
• The Family Monkey - (1977) - novella by Lisa Tuttle
• A Rite of Spring - (1977) - novelette by Fritz Leiber
• Recommended Reading - 1977 - essay by Terry Carr
• The Science-Fiction Year (1977) - essay by Charles N. Brown

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Terry Carr
• The Barbie Murders - (1978) - novelette by John Varley
• A Hiss of Dragon - (1978) - novelette by Gregory Benford and Marc Laidlaw
• Black Glass - (1978) - novelette by Fritz Leiber
• To Bring in the Steel - (1978) - novelette by Donald Kingsbury
• The Very Slow Time Machine - (1978) - novelette by Ian Watson
• Devil You Don't Know - (1978) - novelette by Dean Ing
• Count the Clock That Tells the Time - (1978) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• View from a Height - (1978) - shortstory by Joan D. Vinge
• The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck - (1978) - novelette by Hilbert Schenck
• Vermeer's Window - (1978) - shortstory by Gordon Eklund
• The Man Who Had No Idea - (1978) - novelette by Thomas M. Disch
• Death Therapy - (1978) - shortstory by James Patrick Kelly
• Recommended Reading - 1978 - essay by Terry Carr
• The Science Fiction Year (1978) - essay by Charles N. Brown

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Terry Carr
• Galatea Galante, The Perfect Popsy - (1979) - novelette by Alfred Bester
• Sandkings - (1979) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
• Time Shards - (1979) - shortstory by Gregory Benford
• In the Country of the Blind, No One Can See - (1979) - shortstory by Melisa Michaels
• Re-deem the Time - (1978) - shortstory by David J. Lake
• Down & Out on Ellfive Prime - (1979) - novelette by Dean Ing
• The Exit Door Leads In - (1979) - shortstory by Philip K. Dick
• Options - (1979) - novelette by John Varley
• In Trophonius's Cave - (1979) - shortstory by James P. Girard
• Fireflood - (1979) - novelette by Vonda N. McIntyre
• No More Pencils, No More Books - (1979) - shortstory by John Morressy
• The Vacuum-Packed Picnic - (1979) - shortstory by Rick Gauger
• The Thaw - (1979) - novelette by Tanith Lee
• In a Petri Dish Upstairs - (1978) - novelette by George Turner
• Recommended Reading - 1979 - essay by Terry Carr
• The Science-Fiction Year (1979) - essay by Charles N. Brown

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Terry Carr
• Grotto of the Dancing Deer - (1980) - shortstory by Clifford D. Simak
• Scorched Supper on New Niger - (1980) - novelette by Suzy McKee Charnas
• Ginungagap - (1980) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
• Frozen Journey - (1980) - shortstory by Philip K. Dick
• The Ugly Chickens - (1980) - novelette by Howard Waldrop
• Nightflyers - (1980) - novella by George R. R. Martin
• Beatnik Bayou - (1980) - novelette by John Varley
• Window - (1980) - shortstory by Bob Leman
• Tell Us a Story - (1980) - novella by Zenna Henderson
• Le Croix (The Cross) - (1980) - novelette by Barry N. Malzberg
• Martian Walkabout - (1980) - shortstory by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
• Slow Music - (1980) - novella by James Tiptree, Jr.
• The Science Fiction Year (1980) - essay by Charles N. Brown
• Recommended Reading - 1980 - essay by Terry Carr

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1982) - essay by Terry Carr
• The Saturn Game - (1981) - novella by Poul Anderson
• Walk the Ice - (1981) - shortstory by Mildred Downey Broxon
• Trial Sample - (1981) - shortstory by Ted Reynolds
• The Pusher - (1981) - shortstory by John Varley
• Venice Drowned - (1981) - novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Walden Three - (1981) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
• Second Comings - Reasonable Rates - (1981) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
• Forever - (1981) - shortstory by Damon Knight
• Emergence - (1981) - novelette by David R. Palmer
• You Can't Go Back - (1981) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• Walpurgisnacht - (1981) - shortstory by Roger Zelazny
• The Woman the Unicorn Loved - (1981) - novelette by Gene Wolfe
• Serpents' Teeth - (1981) - shortstory by Spider Robinson
• The Thermals of August - (1981) - novelette by Edward Bryant
• Going Under - (1981) - novelette by Jack Dann
• The Quiet - (1981) - shortstory by George Guthridge
• Swarmer, Skimmer - (1981) - novella by Gregory Benford
• The Science Fiction Year (1981) - essay by Charles N. Brown
• Recommended Reading - 1981 - essay by Terry Carr

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1983) - essay by Terry Carr
• The Pope of the Chimps - (1982) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
• Swarm - (1982) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
• Souls - (1982) - novella by Joanna Russ
• Burning Chrome - (1982) - novelette by William Gibson
• Farmer on the Dole - (1982) - novelette by Frederik Pohl
• Meet Me at Apogee - (1982) - novelette by Bill Johnson
• Sur - (1982) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Understanding Human Behavior: A Romance of the Rocky Mountains - (1982) - novelette by Thomas M. Disch
• Relativistic Effects - (1982) - novelette by Gregory Benford
• Firewatch - (1982) - novelette by Connie Willis
• The Wooing of Slowboat Sadie - (1982) - shortstory by George Alec Effinger
• With the Original Cast - (1982) - novelette by Nancy Kress
• When the Fathers Go - (1982) - novelette by Bruce McAllister
• The Science Fiction Year (1982) - (1983) - essay by Charles N. Brown
• Recommended Reading - 1982 - (1983) - essay by Terry Carr

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Terry Carr
• Servant of the People - (1983) - shortstory by Frederik Pohl
• Slow Birds - (1983) - novelette by Ian Watson
• The Sidon in the Mirror - (1983) - novelette by Connie Willis
• Hardfought - (1983) - novella by Greg Bear
• Amanda and the Alien - (1983) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• Kaleidoscope - (1983) - novelette by Cherry Wilder
• The Tithonian Factor - (1983) - shortstory by Richard Cowper
• Blind Shemmy - (1983) - novelette by Jack Dann
• Scenes from the Country of the Blind - (1977) - shortstory by John Sladek
• Her Habiline Husband - (1983) - novella by Michael Bishop
• The Science Fiction Year (1983) - essay by Charles N. Brown
• Recommended Reading - essay by Terry Carr

Table of ContentS:

• Introduction - (1985) - essay by Terry Carr
• Press Enter [] - (1984) - novella by John Varley
• Blued Moon - (1984) - novelette by Connie Willis
• Summer Solstice - (1984) - novelette by Charles L. Harness
• Morning Child - (1984) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois
• The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything - (1984) - shortstory by George Alec Effinger
• A Day in the Skin (or, The Century We Were Out of Them) - (1984) - shortstory by Tanith Lee
• Instructions - (1984) - shortstory by Bob Leman
• The Lucky Strike - (1984) - novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Green Hearts - (1984) - shortstory by Lee Montgomerie
• Bloodchild - (1984) - novelette by Octavia E. Butler
• Trojan Horse - (1984) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
• Fears - (1984) - shortstory by Pamela Sargent
• Trinity - (1984) - novella by Nancy Kress
• 1984, the SF Year in Review - (1985) - essay by Charles N. Brown
• Recommended Reading - (1985) - essay by Terry Carr

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Best SF of the Year 15) - (1986) - essay by Terry Carr
• Sailing to Byzantium - (1985) - novella by Robert Silverberg
• Flying Saucer Rock & Roll - (1985) - novelette by Howard Waldrop
• Bluff - (1985) - novelette by Harry Turtledove
• A Spanish Lesson - (1985) - novelette by Lucius Shepard
• Snow - (1985) - shortstory by John Crowley
• Shanidar - (1985) - novelette by David Zindell
• All My Darling Daughters - (1985) - novelette by Connie Willis
• Of Space-Time and the River - (1985) - novelette by Gregory Benford
• A Gift from the GrayLanders - (1985) - novelette by Michael Bishop
• Praxis - (1985) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
• The People on the Precipice - (1985) - shortstory by Ian Watson
• The Only Neat Thing to Do - (1985) - novella by James Tiptree, Jr.
• 1985, the SF Year in Review - (1986) - essay by Charles N. Brown
• Recommended Reading - (1986) - essay by Terry Carr

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1987) - essay by Terry Carr
• Escape from Kathmandu - (1986) - novella by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Hatrack River - (1986) - novelette by Orson Scott Card
• Blindsight - (1986) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
• Galileo Complains - (1986) - shortstory by Carter Scholz
• Aymara - (1986) - novelette by Lucius Shepard
• Cold Light - (1986) - novelette by Ian Watson
• Surviving - (1986) - novelette by Judith Moffett
• The Prisoner of Chillon - (1986) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• And so to Bed - (1986) - shortstory by Harry Turtledove
• Grave Angels - (1986) - novelette by Richard Kearns
• Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo - (1986) - novella by John Varley
• Recomended Reading (1986) - (1987) - essay by Terry Carr

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Terry Carr
• Jeffty Is Five - (1977) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Bagful of Dreams - (1977) - novelette by Jack Vance
• The Cat from Hell - (1977) - shortstory by Stephen King
• Black as the Pit, from Pole to Pole - (1977) - novelette by Howard Waldrop and Steven Utley
• The Kugelmass Episode - (1977) - shortstory by Woody Allen
• Manatee Gal Ain't You Coming Out Tonight - (1977) - novelette by Avram Davidson
• Getting Back to Before It Began - (1977) - shortstory by Raylyn Moore
• Descent of Man - (1977) - shortstory by T. Coraghessan Boyle
• Probability Storm - (1977) - novella by Julian Reid
• Growing Boys - (1977) - novella by Robert Aickman

Table of Contetns:

• Introduction - essay by Terry Carr
• Gotcha! - (1978) - shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• The Lady in White - (1978) - novelette by Stephen R. Donaldson
• Within the Walls of Tyre - (1978) - novelette by Michael Bishop
• The Man Who Was Heavily into Revenge - (1978) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Gunslinger - (1978) - novelette by Stephen King
• A Certain Slant of Light - (1978) - shortstory by Raylyn Moore
• Sleep Well of Nights - (1978) - novella by Avram Davidson
• Selenium Ghosts of the Eighteen Seventies - (1978) - novelette by R. A. Lafferty
• The Treasure of Odirex - (1978) - novella by Charles Sheffield
• Recommended Reading - 1978 - essay by Terry Carr
• The Year in Fantasy: 1978 - essay by Susan Wood

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Terry Carr
• The Crate - (1979) - novelette by Stephen King
• Collaborating - (1978) - shortstory by Michael Bishop
• Fate's Purse - (1979) - novelette by Russell Kirk
• The Things That Are Gods - - (1979) - novelette by John Brunner
• Flop Sweat - (1979) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Rent Control - (1979) - shortstory by Walter Tevis
• The Button Molder - (1979) - novelette by Fritz Leiber
• The Extraordinary Voyages of Amélie Bertrand - (1979) - shortstory by Joanna Russ
• Eumenides in the Fourth-Floor Lavatory - (1979) - novelette by Orson Scott Card
• The White Horse Child - (1979) - shortstory by Greg Bear
• Trill Coster's Burden - (1979) - shortstory by Manly Wade Wellman
• Pie Row Joe - (1978) - shortstory by Kevin McKay
• The Ancient Mind at Work - (1979) - novelette by Suzy McKee Charnas
• Recommended Reading - essay by Terry Carr

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Terry Carr
• The Monkey - (1980) - novelette by Stephen King
• The Brave Little Toaster - (1980) - novella by Thomas M. Disch
• The Attleborough Poltergeist - (1980) - novelette by Richard Cowper
• The Hot and Cold Running Waterfall - (1980) - novelette by Stephen Tall
• Unicorn Tapestry - (1980) - novella by Suzy McKee Charnas
• Strata - (1980) - novelette by Edward Bryant
• The Confession of Hamo - (1980) - shortstory by Mary C. Pangborn
• Feesters in the Lake - (1980) - novelette by Bob Leman
• Don't Look Back - (1980) - shortstory by Pat Murphy
• Letters to the Postman - (1980) - novelette by Robert Aickman
• Recommended Reading - 1980 - (1981) - essay by Terry Carr

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Terry Carr
• The Fire When It Comes - (1981) - novelette by Parke Godwin
• Remembering Melody - (1981) - shortstory by George R. R. Martin
• The Grown-Up - (1981) - shortstory by Thomas M. Disch
• The Haunted Tower - (1981) - novelette by C. J. Cherryh
• And I Only Am Escaped to Tell Thee - (1981) - shortstory by Roger Zelazny
• Dinosaurs on Broadway - (1981) - shortstory by Tony Sarowitz
• Werewind - (1981) - novelette by Michael Reaves
• The Regulars - (1981) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• Lirios: A Tale of the Quintana Roo - (1981) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Lincoy's Journey - (1981) - shortstory by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• The Quickening - (1981) - novelette by Michael Bishop
• The Year in Fantasy - essay by Jeff Frane
• Recommended Reading - 1981 - essay by Terry Carr

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (New Worlds of Fantasy) - essay by Terry Carr
• Divine Madness - (1966) - shortstory by Roger Zelazny
• Break the Door of Hell - (1966) - novelette by John Brunner
• The Immortal - (1962) - shortstory by Jorge Luís Borges
• Narrow Valley - (1966) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• Comet Wine - (1967) - novelette by Ray Russell
• The Other - (1966) - shortstory by Katherine MacLean
• A Red Heart and Blue Roses - (1961) - shortstory by Mildred Clingerman
• Stanley Toothbrush - (1962) - shortstory by Terry Carr
• The Squirrel Cage - (1966) - shortstory by Thomas M. Disch
• Come Lady Death - (1963) - shortstory by Peter S. Beagle
• Nackles - (1964) - shortstory by Donald E. Westlake
• The Lost Leonardo - (1964) - shortstory by J. G. Ballard
• Timothy - (1966) - shortstory by Keith Roberts
• Basilisk - shortstory by Avram Davidson
• The Evil Eye - (1966) - novelette by Alfred Gillespie

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Terry Carr
• The Petrified World - (1968) - shortstory by Robert Sheckley
• The Scarlet Lady - (1966) - novelette by Keith Roberts
• They Loved Me in Utica - shortstory by Avram Davidson
• The Library of Babel - (1962) - shortstory by Jorge Luís Borges
• The Ship of Disaster - (1965) - shortstory by Barrington J. Bayley
• Window Dressing - shortstory by Joanna Russ
• By the Falls - (1970) - shortstory by Harry Harrison
• The Night of the Nickel Beer - (1967) - shortstory by Kris Neville
• A Quiet Kind of Madness - (1968) - novelette by David Redd
• A Museum Piece - (1963) - shortstory by Roger Zelazny
• The Old Man of the Mountains - (1963) - shortstory by Terry Carr
• En Passant - (1960) - shortstory by Britt Schweitzer
• Backward, Turn Backward - shortstory by Wilmar H. Shiras
• His Own Kind - shortstory by Thomas M. Disch
• Perchance to Dream - shortstory by Katherine MacLean
• Lazarus - (1927) - shortstory by Leonid Andreyev
• The Ugly Sea - (1960) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• The Movie People - (1969) - shortstory by Robert Bloch

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1971) - essay by Terry Carr
• Farrell and Lila the Werewolf - (1969) - novelette by Peter S. Beagle
• Adam Had Three Brothers - (1960) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• Big Sam - (1970) - shortstory by Avram Davidson
• Longtooth - (1970) - novelette by Edgar Pangborn
• The Inner Circles - (1967) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
• Von Goom's Gambit - (1966) - shortstory by Victor Contoski
• Through a Glass - Darkly - (1970) - novelette by Zenna Henderson
• The Stainless Steel Leech - (1963) - shortstory by Roger Zelazny
• Sleeping Beauty - (1967) - shortstory by Terry Carr
• The Plot is the Thing - (1966) - shortstory by Robert Bloch
• Funes the Memorious - (1962) - shortstory by Jorge Luís Borges
• Say Goodbye to the Wind - (1970) - shortstory by J. G. Ballard
• A Message from Charity - (1967) - shortstory by William M. Lee

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Terry Carr
• The Persistence of Vision - (1978) - novella by John Varley
• Old Folks at Home - (1978) - novella by Michael Bishop
• Shipwright - (1978) - novelette by Donald Kingsbury
• Seven American Nights - (1978) - novella by Gene Wolfe
• Fireship - (1978) - novella by Joan D. Vinge
• The Watched - (1978) - novella by Christopher Priest

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Terry Carr
• Enemy Mine - (1979) - novella by Barry B. Longyear
• The Moon Goddess and the Son - (1979) - novella by Donald Kingsbury
• Palely Loitering - (1979) - novelette by Christopher Priest
• Songhouse - (1979) - novella by Orson Scott Card
• Ker-Plop - (1979) - novella by Ted Reynolds

Comprised of all the short fiction Nebula Award winners for 1971-1975 - the second five years of the award.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1986) - essay by Terry Carr
• Ill Met in Lankhmar - (1970) - novella by Fritz Leiber
• Slow Sculpture - (1970) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• The Missing Man - (1971) - novella by Katherine MacLean
• The Queen of Air and Darkness - (1971) - novella by Poul Anderson
• Good News from the Vatican - (1971) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• A Meeting With Medusa - (1971) - novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
• Goat Song - (1972) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• When It Changed - (1972) - shortstory by Joanna Russ
• The Death of Dr. Island - (1973) - novella by Gene Wolfe
• Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand - (1973) - novelette by Vonda N. McIntyre
• Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death - (1973) - shortstory by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Born with the Dead - (1974) - novella by Robert Silverberg
• If the Stars Are Gods - (1974) - novelette by Gordon Eklund and Gregory Benford
• The Day Before the Revolution - (1974) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Terry Carr
• West Wind, Falling - novelette by Gregory Benford and Gordon Eklund
• Good News from the Vatican - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• Jade Blue - shortstory by Edward Bryant
• Nor Limestone Islands - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• Time Exposures - novelette by Wilson Tucker
• Mindship - shortstory by Gerard F. Conway
• Notes for a Novel About the First Ship Ever to Venus - shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg
• Poor Man, Beggar Man - novelette by Joanna Russ
• The Romance of Dr. Tanner - shortstory by Ron Goulart
• The Human Side of the Village Monster - shortstory by Edward Bryant
• Mount Charity - novelette by Edgar Pangborn
• All the Last Wars at Once - shortstory by George Alec Effinger

Table of Contents:

• Retroactive - novelette by Bob Shaw
• When We Went to See the End of the World - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• Funeral Service - shortstory by Gerard F. Conway
• A Special Condition in Summit City - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• Patron of the Arts - novelette by William Rotsler
• Useful Phrases for the Tourist - shortstory by Joanna Russ
• On the Downhill Side - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Other Perceiver - shortstory by Pamela Sargent
• My Head's in a Different Place, Now - novelette by Grania Davis
• Stalking the Sun - novelette by Gordon Eklund
• The Man Who Waved Hello - shortfiction by Gardner Dozois
• The Headless Man - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• Tiger Boy - novelette by Edgar Pangborn

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1973) - essay by Terry Carr
• The Death of Dr. Island - (1973) - novella by Gene Wolfe
• The Ghost Writer - (1973) - shortstory by George Alec Effinger
• Many Mansions - novelette by Robert Silverberg
• Randy-Tandy Man - (1973) - shortstory by Ross Rocklynne
• The World Is a Sphere - (1973) - novelette by Edgar Pangborn
• The Legend of Cougar Lou Landis - (1973) - shortstory by Edward Bryant
• Free City Blues - (1973) - novelette by Gordon Eklund

Table of Contents:

• Assault on a City - (1974) - novelette by Jack Vance
• A Sea of Faces - (1974) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• And Read the Flesh Between the Lines - (1974) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• My Sweet Lady Jo - (1974) - shortstory by Howard Waldrop
• Stungun Slim - (1974) - shortstory by Ron Goulart
• Desert Places - (1974) - shortstory by Pamela Sargent
• If the Stars Are Gods - (1974) - novelette by Gordon Eklund and Gregory Benford
• When the Vertical World Becomes Horizontal - (1974) - shortstory by Alexei Panshin

Table of Contents:

• If This Is Winnetka, You Must Be Judy - (1974) - novelette by F. M. Busby
• Schrödinger's Cat - (1974) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
• How It Felt - (1974) - shortstory by George Alec Effinger
• The Night Is Cold, the Stars Are Far Away - (1974) - shortstory by Mildred Downey Broxon
• Mysterious Doings in the Metropolitan Museum - (1974) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
• M Is for the Many - (1974) - shortstory by J. J. Russ
• The Night Wind - (1974) - novelette by Edgar Pangborn
• Survival Problems - (1974) - shortstory by Kris Neville
• Passion Play - (1974) - shortstory by Michael Reaves
• The Rubber Bend - (1974) - novelette by Gene Wolfe
• But As a Soldier, For His Country - (1974) - shortstory by Stephen Goldin
• The Ramparts - (1974) - novelette by Hilary Bailey

Table of Contents:

• Journey to the Heartland - (1976) - novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
• What Did You Do Last Year? - (1976) - shortstory by Gregory Benford and Gordon Eklund
• Custer's Last Jump - (1976) - novelette by Steven Utley and Howard Waldrop
• The Wine Has Been Left Open Too Long and the Memory Has Gone Flat - (1976) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Under the Generator - (1976) - novelette by John Shirley
• Stars and Darkness - (1976) - shortstory by Glenn Chang
• Shifting Parameters in Disappearance and Memory - (1976) - shortstory by Charlie Haas

Table of Contents:

• A Rite of Spring - (1977) - novelette by Fritz Leiber
• My Lady of the Psychiatric Sorrows - (1977) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• Probability Storm - (1977) - novella by Julian Reid
• People Reviews - (1977) - shortstory by Rob Chilson
• Ibid. - (1977) - novelette by George Alec Effinger
• The Marvelous Brass Chessplaying Automaton - (1977) - novelette by Gene Wolfe
• Brain Fever Season - (1977) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost Songs - (1977) - novelette by Carter Scholz

Table of Contents:

• Old Folks at Home - (1978) - novella by Michael Bishop
• David and Lindy - (1978) - novelette by Cynthia Felice
• Vermeer's Window - (1978) - shortstory by Gordon Eklund
• Scattershot - (1978) - novelette by Greg Bear
• The Ecologically Correct House - (1978) - shortstory by Charles Ott
• Hunting - (1978) - novelette by Michael Cassutt
• Nooncoming - (1978) - shortstory by Gregory Benford
• Selenium Ghosts of the Eighteen Seventies - (1978) - novelette by R. A. Lafferty

Table of Contents:

• Frost Animals - (1979) - novelette by Bob Shaw
• Nuclear Fission - (1979) - novelette by Paul David Novitski
• Time Shards - (1979) - shortstory by Gregory Benford
• The Captain and the Kid - (1979) - shortstory by Marta Randall
• The Back Road - (1979) - shortstory by Mary C. Pangborn
• Will the Chill - (1979) - novelette by John Shirley
• Chicken of the Tree - (1979) - shortstory by Juleen Brantingham
• The White Horse Child - (1979) - shortstory by Greg Bear
• Options - (1979) - novelette by John Varley

Table of Contents:

• Saving Face - (1980) - novelette by Michael Bishop
• A Source of Innocent Merriment - (1980) - shortstory by James Tiptree, Jr.
• And All the Skies Are Full of Fish - (1980) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• Bête et Noir - (1980) - novelette by Lee Killough
• The Ugly Chickens - (1980) - novelette by Howard Waldrop
• SUPERL - (1980) - shortstory by Charles E. Elliott
• Report of the Special Committee on the Quality of Life - (1980) - shortstory by Harry Turtledove
• The Confession of Hamo - (1980) - shortstory by Mary C. Pangborn
• The Johann Sebastian Bach Memorial Barbecue and Nervous Breakdown - (1980) - shortstory by Carter Scholz
• First Person Plural - (1980) - novella by F. M. Busby

Table of Contents:

• The Quickening - (1981) - novelette by Michael Bishop
• The Snake Who Had Read Chomsky - (1981) - novelette by Josephine Saxton
• Shadows on the Cave Wall - (1981) - novelette by Nancy Kress
• The Gernsback Continuum - (1981) - shortstory by William Gibson
• Venice Drowned - (1981) - novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
• In Reticulum - (1981) - novelette by Carter Scholz
• Jean Sandwich, the Sponsor, and I - (1981) - shortstory by Ian Watson
• The Start of the End of the World - (1981) - shortstory by Carol Emshwiller
• Mummer Kiss - (1981) - novelette by Michael Swanwick

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1982) - essay by Terry Carr
• A Pursuit of Miracles - (1982) - novelette by George Turner
• Exploring Fossil Canyon - (1982) - novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
• God's Hooks! - (1982) - shortstory by Howard Waldrop
• Talp Hunt - (1982) - shortstory by Nancy Kress
• When the Fathers Go - (1982) - novelette by Bruce McAllister
• Thieving Bear Planet - (1982) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• The Sorcerer's Apprentice - (1982) - novelette by Mary C. Pangborn
• In Memory of - (1982) - shortstory by James Patrick Kelly
• Helen, Whose Face Launched Twenty-Eight Conestoga Hovercraft - (1982) - novelette by Leigh Kennedy

Table of Contents:

• Her Habiline Husband - (1983) - novella by Michael Bishop
• The Width of the World - (1983) - shortstory by Ian Watson
• Stone Eggs - (1983) - shortstory by Kim Stanley Robinson
• The Widow and the Body Sitter - (1983) - shortstory by Bill Bickel
• The Taylorsville Reconstruction - (1983) - novelette by Lucius Shepard
• A Way Back - (1983) - shortstory by Leanne Frahm
• Cicada Queen - (1983) - novelette by Bruce Sterling

Table of Contents:

• The Lucky Strike - (1984) - novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Gate of Horn, Gate of Ivory - (1984) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• Passing as a Flower in the City of the Dead - (1984) - shortstory by Sharon N. Farber
• O - (1984) - shortstory by Damon Knight
• Art in the War Zone - (1984) - novelette by Pat Murphy
• Interlocking Pieces - (1984) - shortstory by Molly Gloss
• The Menagerie of Babel - (1984) - novelette by Carter Scholz
• Deadtime - (1984) - shortstory by Joel Richards
• Me/Days - (1984) - shortstory by Gregory Benford
• Black Coral - (1984) - novelette by Lucius Shepard

Table of Contents:

• Mercurial - (1985) - novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Paladin of the Lost Hour - (1985) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• Giraffe Tuesday - (1985) - shortstory by Juleen Brantingham
• Evergreen - (1985) - novelette by Arthur Jean Cox
• Mengele - (1985) - shortstory by Lucius Shepard
• Originals - (1985) - novelette by Pamela Sargent
• Johann Sebastian Brahms - (1985) - shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg
• Encounter on the Ladder - (1985) - shortstory by Mona A. Clee
• Tidal Effects - (1985) - shortstory by Jack McDevitt
• The Slovo Stove - (1985) - novelette by Avram Davidson

Table of Contents:

• Hotel Mind Slaves - (1986) - novelette by Ronald Anthony Cross
• At the Flood - (1986) - novelette by Rick Shelley
• The Idea Trap - (1986) - shortstory by George Zebrowski
• What Genius - (1986) - shortstory by Gary Konas
• Was That House Here Yesterday? - (1986) - shortstory by Robert Thurston
• The Legend of the Seven Who Found the True Egg of Lightning - (1986) - shortstory by Ian Watson
• Treading in the Afterglow - (1986) - shortstory by Robert Reed
• Dress Rehearsal - (1986) - shortstory by Martha Soukup
• Voyage South from Thousand Willows - (1986) - novelette by Lucius Shepard

Table of Contents:

• Second Going - (1987) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Mencken Stuff - (1987) - shortstory by Joel Richards
• Lapidary Nights - (1987) - shortstory by Marta Randall
• The Man Who Watched the Glaciers Run - (1987) - novelette by Cherie Wilkerson
• Pliny's Commentaries - (1987) - novelette by Ned Huston
• In the Tower - (1987) - novelette by Jack McDevitt

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