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Lester del Rey


Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year

Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Book 1

Lester del Rey

Table of Contents:

  • Foreword: Alternate Possibilities - (1972) - essay by Lester del Rey
  • The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World - (1971) - shortstory by Philip José Farmer
  • Good News from the Vatican - (1971) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
  • I'll Be Waiting for You When the Swimming Pool is Empty - (1971) - shortstory by James Tiptree, Jr.
  • The Power of the Sentence - (1971) - shortstory by David M. Locke
  • The Wicked Flee - (1971) - shortstory by Harry Harrison
  • When You Hear the Tone - (1971) - shortstory by Thomas N. Scortia
  • Occam's Scalpel - (1971) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
  • Hot Potato - (1971) - shortstory by Burt K. Filer
  • The Human Operators - (1971) - novelette by Harlan Ellison and A. E. van Vogt
  • Autumntime - (1971) - shortstory by A. Lentini
  • A Little Knowledge - (1971) - novelette by Poul Anderson
  • To Make a New Neanderthal - (1971) - shortstory by W. Macfarlane
  • The Man Underneath - (1971) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
  • Ornithanthropus - (1971) - shortstory by B. Alan Burhoe
  • Rammer - (1971) - novelette by Larry Niven
  • The Science Fiction Yearbook (1971) - (1972) - essay by Lester del Rey

Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Second Annual Collection

Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Book 2

Lester del Rey

Table of Contents:

  • Foreword: The Spice of Variety - (1973) - essay by Lester del Rey
  • Cloak of Anarchy - (1972) - shortstory by Larry Niven
  • When We Went to See the End of the World - (1972) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
  • Underbelly - (1972) - shortstory by Gordon Eklund
  • The Greatest Asset - (1972) - shortstory by Isaac Asimov
  • The Meeting - (1972) - shortstory by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth
  • Eurema's Dam - (1972) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
  • Teratohippus - (1972) - novelette by Robert L. Davis
  • The Long Silence - (1972) - shortstory by Donald Noakes
  • Long Shot - (1972) - shortstory by Vernor Vinge
  • Miscount - (1972) - shortstory by Carolyn Gloeckner
  • Thus Love Betrays Us - (1972) - shortstory by Phyllis MacLennan
  • Woman's Rib - (1972) - shortstory by Thomas N. Scortia
  • The Man Who Walked Home - (1972) - shortstory by James Tiptree, Jr.
  • Watchdøg - (1972) - shortstory by Jack C. Haldeman, II
  • Patron of the Arts - (1972) - novelette by William Rotsler
  • The Science Fiction Yearbook (1972) - (1973) - essay by Lester del Rey

Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Third Annual Collection

Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Book 3

Lester del Rey

Table of Contents:

  • Foreword: A Spate of Changes - essay by Lester del Rey
  • Something Up There Likes Me - (1973) - shortstory by Alfred Bester
  • A Thing of Beauty - (1973) - shortstory by Norman Spinrad
  • With Morning Comes Mistfall - (1973) - shortstory by George R. R. Martin
  • Construction Shack - (1973) - shortstory by Clifford D. Simak
  • Thou Good and Faithful - (1973) - novelette by Thomas N. Scortia
  • Androids Don't Cry - (1973) - shortstory by Edward Wellen
  • The Population Implosion - (1973) - shortfiction by Theodore R. Cogswell
  • Think Only This of Me - (1973) - novelette by Michael Kurland
  • Ghosts - (1973) - shortstory by Robert F. Young
  • Afterword (Future City) - (1973) - essay by Frederik Pohl
  • The Problem of Pain - (1973) - novelette by Poul Anderson
  • Parthen - (1973) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
  • The National Pastime - (1973) - novelette by Norman Spinrad
  • Paradise Regained - (1973) - shortstory by Theodore R. Cogswell and Theodore L. Thomas
  • Whatever Happened to the Olmecs? - (1973) - shortstory by Kate Wilhelm
  • The Science Fiction Yearbook (1973) - essay by Lester del Rey

Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Fourth Annual Collection

Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Book 4

Lester del Rey

Table of Contents:

  • Foreword: The Sense of Wonder - (1975) - essay by Lester del Rey
  • If This Is Winnetka, You Must Be Judy - (1974) - novelette by F. M. Busby
  • Sleeping Dogs - (1974) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
  • The Mountains of Sunset, the Mountains of Dawn - (1974) - shortstory by Vonda N. McIntyre
  • Earth Mother - (1974) - shortstory by Carolyn Gloeckner
  • Dream Done Green - (1974) - shortstory by Alan Dean Foster
  • The Night Is Cold, the Stars Are Far Away - (1974) - shortstory by Mildred Downey Broxon
  • Ad Astra - (1974) - shortstory by Harry Harrison
  • And Name My Name - (1974) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
  • What Friends Are For - (1974) - shortstory by John Brunner
  • Mute Inglorious Tam - (1974) - shortstory by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth
  • The Man Who Came Back - (1961) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
  • Dress Rehearsal - (1974) - shortstory by Harvey Jacobs
  • Enter a Pilgrim - (1974) - shortstory by Gordon R. Dickson
  • The Postponed Cure - (1974) - shortstory by Stan Nodvik
  • The Birch Clump Cylinder - (1974) - novelette by Clifford D. Simak
  • The Science Fiction Yearbook (1974) - (1975) - essay by Lester del Rey

Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Fifth Annual Collection

Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Book 5

Lester del Rey

Table of Contents:

  • Foreword: Fifty Years of Science Fiction - (1976) - essay by Lester del Rey
  • The Bitter Bread - (1975) - novelette by Poul Anderson
  • Mail Supremacy - (1975) - shortstory by Hayford Peirce
  • Child of All Ages - (1975) - shortstory by P. J. Plauger
  • Tree of Life - (1975) - shortstory by Phyllis Eisenstein
  • Helbent Four - (1975) - novelette by Stephen Robinett
  • Pop Goes the Weasel - (1975) - shortstory by Robert Hoskins
  • The Book Learners - (1975) - shortstory by Liz Hufford
  • High Yield Bondage - (1975) - novelette by Hayford Peirce
  • Senior Citizen - (1975) - shortstory by Clifford D. Simak
  • The Peddler's Apprentice - (1975) - novelette by Joan D. Vinge and Vernor Vinge
  • The Science Fiction Yearbook (1975) - (1976) - essay by Lester del Rey

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