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Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1966) - essay by Edward L. Ferman
• The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth - (1965) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
• Love Letter from Mars - (1965) - poem by John Ciardi
• Rake - (1965) - shortstory by Ron Goulart
• "This is Willy, and this is Willy's imaginary playmate." - (1965) - Cartoon by Gahan Wilson
• The History of Doctor Frost - (1965) - shortstory by Roderic C. Hodgins
• Four Ghosts in Hamlet - (1965) - novelette by Fritz Leiber
• Treat - (1964) - poem by Walter H. Kerr
• Keep Them Happy - (1965) - shortstory by Robert Rohrer
• "Marsha, you're tending to lead again! - (1965) - Cartoon by Gahan Wilson
• A Murkle For Jesse - (1965) - shortstory by Gary Jennings
• Eyes Do More Than See - (1965) - shortstory by Isaac Asimov
• no caption - (1965) - Cartoon by Gahan Wilson
• The House the Blakeneys Built - (1965) - shortstory by Avram Davidson
• The Eight Billion - (1965) - shortstory by Richard Wilson
• Something Else - (1965) - shortstory by Robert J. Tilley
• Aunt Millicent at the Races - (1965) - shortstory by Len Guttridge
• no caption - (1965) - Cartoon by Gahan Wilson
• Sea Bright - (1965) - shortstory by Hal R. Moore
• From Two Universes - (1964) - poem by Doris Pitkin Buck
• Hog-Belly Honey - (1965) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• "Harry!" - (1965) - Cartoon by Gahan Wilson
• No Different Flesh - (1965) - novelette by Zenna Henderson

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1967) - essay by Edward L. Ferman
• Luana - (1966) - shortstory by Gilbert Thomas
• And Madly Teach - (1966) - novelette by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
• Mickey Finn - (1966) - poem by Doris Pitkin Buck
• Matog - (1966) - shortstory by Joan Patricia Basch
• The Key - (1966) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• Imaginary Numbers in a Real Garden - (1965) - poem by Gerald Jonas
• The Seven Wonders of the Universe - (1966) - shortstory by Mose Mallette
• A Few Kindred Spirits - (1965) - shortstory by John Christopher
• Letter to a Tyrant King - (1966) - poem by Bill Butler
• We Can Remember It for You Wholesale - (1966) - novelette by Philip K. Dick
• Three for Carnival - (1966) - shortstory by John Shepley
• Experiment in Autobiography - (1966) - shortstory by Ron Goulart
• The Adjusted - (1966) - shortstory by Kenneth Bulmer
• The Age of Invention - (1966) - shortstory by Norman Spinrad
• Memo to Secretary - (1966) - poem by Pat de Graw
• Apology to Inky - (1966) - novelette by Robert M. Green, Jr.
• This Moment of the Storm - (1966) - novelette by Roger Zelazny

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1968) - essay by Edward L. Ferman
• Cyprian's Room - (1967) - novelette by Frances Oliver
• Out of Time, Out of Place - (1967) - shortstory by George Collyn
• Von Goom's Gambit - (1966) - shortstory by Victor Contoski
• Bumberboom - (1966) - novelette by Avram Davidson
• Fill in the Blank - (1967) - shortstory by Ron Goulart
• Balgrummo's Hell - (1967) - shortstory by Russell Kirk
• Corona - (1967) - shortstory by Samuel R. Delany
• The Inner Circles - (1967) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
• Problems of Creativeness - (1967) - shortstory by Thomas M. Disch
• Encounter in the Past - (1967) - shortstory by Robert Nathan
• The Sea Change - (1967) - shortstory by Arthur Jean Cox
• The Devil and Democracy - (1966) - shortstory by Brian Cleeve
• Randy's Syndrome - (1967) - novelette by Brian W. Aldiss

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1969) - essay by Edward L. Ferman
• The Cloud-Sculptors of Coral D - (1967) - shortstory by J. G. Ballard
• The People Trap - (1968) - shortstory by Robert Sheckley
• In His Own Image - (1968) - shortstory by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
• Ogre! - (1968) - novelette by Edward Jesby
• Lunatic Assignment - (1968) - shortstory by Sonya Dorman
• Gifts from the Universe - (1968) - shortstory by Leonard Tushnet
• Sundown - (1967) - novelette by David Redd
• Beyond the Game - (1968) - shortstory by Vance Aandahl
• Sea Home - (1968) - novelette by William M. Lee
• That High-up Blue Day That Saw The Black Sky-train Come Spinning - (1968) - shortstory by David R. Bunch
• Muscadine - (1968) - shortstory by Ron Goulart
• Final War - (1968) - novelette by Barry N. Malzberg
• I Have My Vigil - (1968) - shortstory by Harry Harrison
• The Egg of the Glak - (1968) - novelette by Harvey Jacobs

Table of Contents:

• Gone Fishin' - (1970) - shortstory by Robin Scott Wilson
• Selectra Six-Ten - (1970) - shortstory by Avram Davidson
• Longtooth - (1970) - novelette by Edgar Pangborn
• Sundance - (1969) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• The Brief, Swinging Career of Dan and Judy Smythe - (1970) - shortstory by Carter Wilson
• Dream Patrol - (1970) - shortstory by Charles W. Runyon
• Calliope and Gherkin and the Yankee Doodle Thing - (1969) - novelette by Evelyn E. Smith
• Notes Just Prior to the Fall - (1970) - shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg
• Confessions - (1970) - novelette by Ron Goulart
• Get a Horse! - (1969) - shortstory by Larry Niven
• The Man Who Learned Loving - (1969) - shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon
• Litterbug - (1969) - novelette by Tony Morphett
• An Adventure in the Yolla Bolly Middle Eel Wilderness - (1969) - novelette by Vance Aandahl
• Starting from Scratch - (1970) - shortstory by Robert Sheckley
• Benji's Pencil - (1969) - shortstory by Bruce McAllister
• Afterword - (1971) - essay by Edward L. Ferman

Table of Contents:

• Shaffery Among the Immortals - (1972) - shortstory by Frederik Pohl
• A Different Drummer - (1971) - shortstory by Raylyn Moore
• The Deathbird - (1973) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• Born to Exile - (1971) - novelette by Phyllis Eisenstein
• Thus Love Betrays Us - (1972) - shortstory by Phyllis MacLennan
• The Animal Fair - (1972) - novelette by Alfred Bester
• Is It the End of the World? - (1972) - shortstory by Wilma Shore
• The Bear with the Knot on His Tail - (1971) - novelette by Stephen Tall
• Birdlime - (1971) - shortstory by B. L. Keller
• The Problem of Pain - (1973) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• Sooner or Later or Never Never - (1972) - novelette by Gary Jennings

An anthology of short stories and readers' contributions to contests published in Fantasy & Science Fiction.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1977) - essay by Edward L. Ferman
• The Hertford Manuscript - (1976) - novelette by Richard Cowper
• From Competition 2: Blurbs in Excess - (1972) - essay by Ralph C. Glisson
• A Case of the Stubborns - (1976) - shortstory by Robert Bloch
• Where We Are and Where We Came From - (1976) - essay by Algis Budrys
• From Competition 4: Story Leads from the Year's Worst Fantasy and SF - (1973) - essay by James Sutherland
• From Competition 4: Story Leads from the Year's Worst Fantasy and SF - (1973) - essay by Bob Leman
• My Boat - (1976) - shortstory by Joanna Russ
• In the Bowl - (1975) - novelette by John Varley
• From Competition 6: Bawdy SF Limericks - (1973) - essay by Margaret O. Ablitt
• From Competition 6: Bawdy SF Limericks - (1973) - essay by Janice Leffingwell
• This Offer Expires - (1976) - shortstory by Liz Hufford
• The Fantastic Ten - (1977) - essay by Baird Searles
• The Women Men Don't See - (1973) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• The Ghastly Priest Doth Reign - (1975) - shortstory by Manly Wade Wellman
• Dress Rehearsal - (1974) - shortstory by Harvey Jacobs
• From Competition 7: A Lexicon from an Alien Language - (1974) - essay by Bob Leman
• From Competition 8: Near-Miss SF Titles - (1974) - essay by Reid Powell
• From Competition 8: Near-Miss SF Titles - (1974) - essay by Terry Naylor
• From Competition 8: Near-Miss SF Titles - (1974) - essay by R. Tyler Sperry, II
• From Competition 8: Near-Miss SF Titles - (1974) - essay by Mark R. Kelly
• From Competition 8: Near-Miss SF Titles - (1974) - essay by Joe Haldeman
• From Competition 8: Near-Miss SF Titles - (1974) - essay by F. M. Busby
• San Diego Lightfoot Sue - (1975) - novelette by Tom Reamy
• Out of Dickinson by Poe, or The Only Begotten Son of Emily and Edgar - (1976) - poem by Ray Bradbury
• Sanity Clause - (1975) - shortstory by Edward Wellen
• Thinking About Thinking - (1975) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• From Competition 8: Near-Miss SF Titles - (1974) - essay by Ken Scott
• From Competition 8: Near-Miss SF Titles - (1974) - essay by Carolyn Appleman
• From Competition 8: Near-Miss SF Titles - (1974) - essay by David A. Wilson
• Mute Inglorious Tam - (1974) - shortstory by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth
• Old Uncle Tom Cobleigh and All - (1973) - novelette by Reginald Bretnor

Since its founding, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction has been acclaimed as one of the pinnacles of the field, the source of fantastic fiction of the highest literary quality. These stories (and readers' contributions to contests) appeared in the magazine in the waning years of the 1970's.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1980) - essay by Edward L. Ferman
• I See You - (1976) - shortstory by Damon Knight
• From Competition 13: Excerpts from myopic early sf novels - (1976) - essay by Janet E. Pearson
• From Competition 13: Excerpts from myopic early sf novels - (1976) - essay by David T. J. Doughan
• The Detweiler Boy - (1977) - novelette by Tom Reamy
• Books: In Defense of Criticism - (1979) - essay by Joanna Russ
• Zorphwar! - (1977) - shortstory by Stan Dryer
• From Competition 14: SF "What's the question" jokes - (1976) - essay by Bruce Berges
• From Competition 14: SF "What's the question" jokes - (1976) - essay by J. G. Sattler
• From Competition 14: SF "What's the question" jokes - (1976) - essay by Steve Steinberg
• From Competition 14: SF "What's the question" jokes - (1976) - essay by Mary H. Schaub
• From Competition 14: SF "What's the question" jokes - (1976) - essay by Chris Leithiser
• Stone - (1978) - shortstory by Edward Bryant
• From Competition 15: Retranslated sf titles - (1977) - essay by Michael Bishop
• From Competition 15: Retranslated sf titles - (1977) - essay by Chris Reisbeck
• From Competition 15: Retranslated sf titles - (1977) - essay by Cambridge University Science Fiction Society
• From Competition 15: Retranslated sf titles - (1977) - essay by John Billingsley
• From Competition 15: Retranslated sf titles - (1977) - essay by Daniel P. Dern
• Nina - (1977) - shortstory by Robert Bloch
• Clone, Clone of My Own - (1979) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• In the Hall of the Martian Kings - (1976) - novella by John Varley
• From Competition 18: Transposed sf titles - (1978) - essay by Al Sarrantonio
• From Competition 18: Transposed sf titles - (1978) - essay by Harvey Abramson
• From Competition 18: Transposed sf titles - (1978) - essay by Lynn Pederson and Wes Pederson
• From Competition 18: Transposed sf titles - (1978) - essay by Marc Russell
• From Competition 18: Transposed sf titles - (1978) - essay by David Lubar
• From Competition 18: Transposed sf titles - (1978) - essay by Barry N. Malzberg
• From Competition 18: Transposed sf titles - (1978) - essay by Jeremy Hole
• Upstart - (1977) - shortstory by Steven Utley
• A House Divided - (1978) - shortstory by Lee Killough
• From Competition 19: SF limericks - (1978) - essay by Phoebe Ellis
• From Competition 19: SF limericks - (1978) - essay by Doris McElfresh
• From Competition 19: SF limericks - (1978) - essay by Margery Goldstein
• From Competition 19: SF limericks - (1978) - essay by David Lubar
• Brother Hart - (1978) - shortstory by Jane Yolen
• Films: Multiples - (1980) - essay by Baird Searles
• The Man Who Had No Idea - (1978) - novelette by Thomas M. Disch
• Project Hi-Rise - (1978) - shortstory by Robert F. Young
• Prismatica - (1977) - novelette by Samuel R. Delany

Since its founding, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction has been acclaimed as one of the pinnacles of the field, the source of fantastic fiction of the highest literary quality. Now the magazine known to its readers as "F&SF" celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with a spectacular anthology of the best recent work from the magazine.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1982) - essay by Edward L. Ferman
• Window - (1980) - shortstory by Bob Leman
• The Fire When It Comes - (1981) - novelette by Parke Godwin
• Books: The Secret Language of Science Fiction - (1981) - essay by Algis Budrys
• Wives - (1979) - shortstory by Lisa Tuttle
• The Alien Mind - (1981) - shortstory by Philip K. Dick
• Spidersong - (1980) - shortstory by Susan C. Petrey
• Out There Where the Big Ships Go - (1979) - novelette by Richard Cowper
• Films and TV: Lost Rewards - (1982) - essay by Baird Searles
• The Curse of the Mhondoro Nkabele - (1978) - novelette by Eric Norden
• The Autopsy - (1980) - novella by Michael Shea
• The Sipple - (1982) - poem by Rachel Cosgrove Payes
• The Wud - (1982) - poem by Mike DeSimone
• Conkew - (1982) - poem by Pat Cadigan
• The Fleffel - (1982) - poem by Bruce Berges
• untitled - (1982) - poem by Mary C. Pangborn
• untitled - (1982) - poem by Sebastian Robinson
• "A Day at the Fair" - (1981) - shortstory by Neal Barrett, Jr.
• The Most Illuminatingly Doleful and Instructively Affecting Demise of Flo, Late of Upper Blooton - (1982) - poem by Russell M. Griffin
• The Word I Invented - (1980) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• The Pusher - (1981) - shortstory by John Varley
• The Brave Little Toaster - (1980) - novella by Thomas M. Disch

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction publishes a special author issue on occasion; the author selected is honored by the inclusion of a major new story, a critical essay on his work, and a comprehensive bibliography. The special contents of the first six one-author issues is gathered in this volume.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, 25th Anniversary) - (1974) - essay by Edward L. Ferman
• When You Care, When You Love - (1962) - novella by Theodore Sturgeon
• Theodore Sturgeon - (1962) - essay by Judith Merril
• Sturgeon Bibliography - (1962) - essay by Sam Moskowitz (variant of Fantasy and Science Fiction by Theodore Sturgeon (Bibliography))
• To the Chicago Abyss - (1963) - shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• Ray Bradbury - (1963) - essay by William F. Nolan (variant of Bradbury: Prose Poet in the Age of Space)
• Bradbury Bibliography - (1963) - essay by William F. Nolan (variant of An Index to Works of Ray Bradbury)
• The Key - (1966) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• Isaac Asimov - (1966) - essay by L. Sprague de Camp (variant of You Can't Beat Brains)
• Asimov Bibliography - (1966) - essay by Isaac Asimov (variant of Isaac Asimov: A Bibliography) [as by uncredited]
• Ship of Shadows - (1969) - novella by Fritz Leiber
• Fritz Leiber - (1969) - essay by Judith Merril (variant of Fritz Leiber (profile))
• Leiber Bibliography - (1969) - essay by Al Lewis (variant of Fritz Leiber: A Bibliography)
• The Queen of Air and Darkness - (1971) - novella by Poul Anderson
• Poul Anderson - (1971) - essay by Gordon R. Dickson (variant of Profile: Poul Anderson)
• Anderson Bibliography - (1971) - essay by uncredited (variant of Poul Anderson: Bibliography)
• Midsummer Century - (1972) - novella by James Blish
• James Blish - (1972) - essay by Robert A. W. Lowndes (variant of James Blish: Profile)
• Blish Bibliography - (1972) - essay by Mark Owings (variant of James Blish: Bibliography)

Table of Contents:

• Preface - (1989) - essay by Edward L. Ferman
• Introduction - (1989) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• The Cat Hotel - (1983) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
• Slow Birds - (1983) - novelette by Ian Watson
• Judgment Call - (1987) - novelette by John Kessel
• The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything - (1984) - shortstory by George Alec Effinger
• The God Machine - (1985) - shortstory by Damon Knight
• Understanding Human Behavior: A Romance of the Rocky Mountains - (1982) - novelette by Thomas M. Disch
• A Rarebit of Magic - (1983) - shortstory by John Morressy
• In Midst of Life - (1987) - shortstory by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Surviving - (1986) - novelette by Judith Moffett
• Cage 37 - (1987) - novelette by Wayne Wightman
• While You're Up - (1988) - shortstory by Avram Davidson
• Eidolons - (1988) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Face Value - (1986) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
• Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight - (1987) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Boy Who Plaited Manes - (1986) - shortstory by Nancy Springer
• Out of All Them Bright Stars - (1985) - shortstory by Nancy Kress
• Salvador - (1984) - shortstory by Lucius Shepard
• State of the Art - (1985) - shortstory by Robert Charles Wilson
• Black Air - (1983) - novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Uncle Tuggs - (1986) - novelette by Michael Shea

The nineteen stories in this compilation comprise an excellent sample from the forty-five-year history of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, with works by such authors as Harlan Ellison, Karen Joy Fowler, and Dale Bailey.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Changes - (1994) - essay by Edward L. Ferman
• Introduction - (1994) - essay by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Kirinyaga - (1988) - novelette by Mike Resnick
• Touched - (1993) - shortstory by Dale Bailey
• Mom's Little Friends - (1992) - shortstory by Ray Vukcevich
• Cast on a Distant Shore - (1989) - novelette by R. Garcia y Robertson
• Graves - (1992) - shortstory by Joe Haldeman
• The Dark - (1991) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
• Willie - (1992) - shortstory by Madeleine E. Robins
• The Last Feast of Harlequin - (1990) - novelette by Thomas Ligotti
• Coffins - (1992) - shortstory by Robert Reed
• The Resurrection of Alonso Quijana - (1992) - shortstory by Marcos Donnelly
• Steel Dogs - (1989) - novelette by Ray Aldridge
• Abe Lincoln in McDonald's - (1989) - shortstory by James Morrow
• On Death and the Deuce - (1992) - shortstory by Richard Bowes
• The Honeycrafters - (1991) - novelette by Carolyn Ives Gilman
• Ma Qui - (1991) - shortstory by Alan Brennert
• Next - (1992) - shortstory by Terry Bisson
• The Friendship Light - (1989) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• Susan - (1993) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Guide Dog - (1991) - novelette by Mike Conner

Since its founding, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction has been acclaimed as one of the pinnacles of the field, the source of fantastic fiction of the highest literary quality. Now the magazine known to its readers as "F&SF" celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with a spectacular anthology of the best recent work from the magazine.

Included are stories from major writers like Bruce Sterling, John Crowley, and Harlan Ellison. Also here are award-winners like Ursula K. Le Guin's Nebula-winning "Solitude," Maureen F. McHugh's Hugo-winning "The Lincoln Train," and Elizabeth Hand's Nebula- and World Fantasy Award-winning "Last Summer at Mars Hill."

The fiftieth anniversary collection for the most distinguished magazine of the science fiction and fantasy world.

Table of Contents

• Introduction - essay by Gordon Van Gelder
• Last Summer at Mars Hill - (1994) - novella by Elizabeth Hand
• Maneki Neko - (1998) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
• No Planets Strike - (1997) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• Sins of the Mothers - (1997) - shortstory by S. N. Dyer
• The Finger - (1995) - shortstory by Ray Vukcevich
• Lifeboat on a Burning Sea - (1995) - novelette by Bruce Holland Rogers
• Gone - (1996) - shortstory by John Crowley
• First Tuesday - (1996) - shortstory by Robert Reed
• The Fool, the Stick, and the Princess - (1998) - shortstory by Rachel Pollack
• A Birthday - (1995) - shortstory by Esther M. Friesner
• Sensible City - (1994) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• All the Birds of Hell - (1998) - novelette by Tanith Lee
• We Love Lydia Love - (1994) - novelette by Bradley Denton
• Paul and Me - (1997) - shortstory by Michael Blumlein
• Have Gun, Will Edit - (1996) - shortstory by Paul Di Filippo
• Forget Luck - (1996) - shortstory by Kate Wilhelm
• Quinn's Way - (1997) - novelette by Dale Bailey
• Partial People - (1993) - shortstory by Terry Bisson
• The Lincoln Train - (1995) - shortstory by Maureen F. McHugh
• Another Fine Mess - (1995) - shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• Solitude - (1994) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin