Search Worlds Without End

This is the third edition of this collection. Earlier editions appeared in 1965 and 1971, containing a different selection of stories.

Table of Contents:

• Outside - (1955) - short story
• All the World's Tears - (1957) - short story
• Poor Little Warrior! - (1958) - short story
• Who Can Replace a Man? - (1958) - short story
• Man on Bridge - (1964) - short story
• The Girl and the Robot with Flowers - (1965) - short story
• The Saliva Tree - (1965) - novella
• Man in His Time - (1965) - short story
• Heresies of the Huge God - (1966) - short story
• Confluence - (1967) - short story
• Working in the Spaceship Yards - (1969) - short story
• Super-Toys Last All Summer Long - (1969) - short story
• Sober Noises of Morning in a Marginal Land - (1971) - novelette
• The Dark Soul of the Night - (1976) - short story
• Appearance of Life - (1976) - short story by
• Last Orders - (1976) - short story
• Door Slams in Fourth World - (1982) - short story
• The Gods in Flight - (1984) - short story
• My Country 'Tis Not Only of Thee - (1986) - novelette
• Infestation - (1986) - short story
• The Difficulties Involved in Photographing Nix Olympica - (1986) - short story

Faber & Faber published two versions of this collection. The table of contents shown is from the 1973 revised edition.

Table of Contents:

• Preface - essay by James Blish
• Surface Tension - (1952) - novelette
• Testament of Andros - (1953) - novelette
• Common Time - (1953) - shortstory
• A Work of Art - (1956) - novelette
• Tomb Tapper - (1956) - novelette
• The Oath - (1960) - novelette
• How Beautiful With Banners - (1966) - shortstory
• We All Die Naked - (1969) - novelette

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1952) - essay by Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas
• Huge Beast - (1950) - shortstory by Cleve Cartmill
• John the Revelator - (1951) - shortstory by Oliver La Farge
• Elephas Frumenti - (1950) - shortstory by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt
• The Gift of God - (1950) - shortstory by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt
• The Friendly Demon - (1726) - shortstory by Daniel Defoe
• Old Man Henderson - (1951) - shortstory by Kris Neville
• The Threepenny-Piece - (1913) - shortstory by James Stephens
• No-Sided Professor - (1947) - shortstory by Martin Gardner
• The Listening Child - (1950) - shortstory by Margaret St. Clair
• Dress of White Silk - (1951) - shortstory by Richard Matheson
• The Mathematical Voodoo - (1951) - shortstory by H. Nearing, Jr.
• Hub - (1951) - shortstory by Philip MacDonald
• Built Up Logically - (1949) - shortstory by Howard Schoenfeld
• The Rat That Could Speak - (1860) - shortstory by Charles Dickens
• Narapoia - (1948) - shortstory by Alan Nelson
• Postpaid to Paradise - (1940) - shortstory by Robert Arthur
• In the Days of Our Fathers - (1949) - shortstory by Winona McClintic
• Barney - (1951) - shortstory by Will Stanton
• The Collector - (1951) - novelette by Gerald Heard
• Fearsome Fable - (1951) - shortstory by Bruce Elliott

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas
• Come On, Wagon! - (1951) - shortstory by Zenna Henderson
• Hobson's Choice - (1952) - shortstory by Alfred Bester
• The Black Ball - (1952) - shortstory by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt
• Ransom - (1952) - shortstory by H. B. Fyfe
• Letters to the Editor - (1950) - shortstory by Ron Goulart
• The Hole in the Moon - (1952) - shortstory by Margaret St. Clair
• The Desrick on Yandro - (1952) - shortstory by Manly Wade Wellman
• Jizzle - (1949) - shortstory by John Wyndham
• Ugly Sister - (1935) - shortstory by Jan Struther
• Stair Trick - (1952) - shortstory by Mildred Clingerman
• The Cheery Soul - (1942) - shortstory by Elizabeth Bowen
• The Shout - (1929) - shortstory by Robert Graves
• Budding Explorer - (1952) - shortstory by Ralph Robin
• The Tooth - (1952) - shortstory by G. Gordon Dewey
• The Soothsayer - (1952) - shortstory by Kem Bennett
• The Third Level - (1950) - shortstory by Jack Finney
• The Earlier Service - (1935) - shortstory by Margaret Irwin
• The Hyperspherical Basketball - (1951) - shortstory by H. Nearing, Jr.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1954) - essay by Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas
• Attitudes - (1953) - shortstory by Philip José Farmer
• Maybe Just a Little One - (1953) - shortstory by Reginald Bretnor
• Solar Systems... - (1953) - poem by E. D. B.
• The Star Gypsies - (1953) - shortstory by William Lindsay Gresham
• The Naming of Names - (1953) - poem by Anthony Boucher
• The Untimely Toper - (1953) - shortstory by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt
• Some Facts About Robots (1953 version) - (1953) - poem by Leonard Wolf
• Vandy, Vandy - (1953) - shortstory by Manly Wade Wellman
• Experiment - (1953) - shortstory by Kay Rogers
• Lot - [David Jimmon] - (1953) - novelette by Ward Moore
• Manuscript Found in a Vacuum - (1952) - shortstory by P. M. Hubbard
• The Escapist - (1953) - poem by E. D. B.
• The Maladjusted Classroom - (1953) - shortstory by H. Nearing, Jr.
• Child by Chronos - (1953) - shortstory by Charles L. Harness
• The Antiquary - (1953) - poem by Winona McClintic
• New Ritual - (1953) - shortstory by Margaret St. Clair
• The Two Voices - (1953) - poem by Winona McClintic
• Devlin - (1953) - shortstory by William Bernard Ready
• Captive Audience - (1953) - shortstory by Ann Warren Griffith
• Snulbug - (1941) - shortstory by Anthony Boucher
• Shepherd's Boy - (1912) - shortstory by Richard Middleton
• The Unquiet Grave - (1953) - poem by Winona McClintic
• Star Light, Star Bright - (1953) - shortstory by Alfred Bester
• His Master's Voice - (1953) - poem by Winona McClintic

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1955) - essay by Anthony Boucher
• Fondly Fahrenheit - (1954) - novelette by Alfred Bester
• I Never Ast No Favors - (1954) - shortstory by C. M. Kornbluth
• Some Facts About Robots (1954 version) - (1954) - poem by Leonard Wolf
• Heirs Apparent - (1954) - novelette by Robert Abernathy
• $1.98 - (1954) - shortstory by Arthur Porges
• The Immortal Game - (1954) - shortstory by Poul Anderson
• All Summer in a Day - (1954) - shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• The Accountant - (1954) - shortstory by Robert Sheckley
• Epitaph Near Moonport - (1954) - poem by Sherwood Springer
• Brave New Word - (1954) - shortstory by J. Francis McComas
• My Boy Friend's Name Is Jello - (1954) - shortstory by Avram Davidson
• The Test - (1954) - shortstory by Richard Matheson
• Careless Love - (1954) - shortstory by Bud Foote
• Report on the Sexual Behavior of the Extra-Sensory Perceptor - (1954) - poem by Anthony Boucher
• Bulletin - (1954) - shortstory by Shirley Jackson
• Epitaph in Avalon - (1954) - poem by Sherwood Springer
• Sanctuary - (1954) - novelette by Daniel F. Galouye
• Misadventure - (1953) - shortstory by Lord Dunsany
• More Facts About Robots - (1954) - poem by Leonard Wolf
• The Little Black Train - (1954) - shortstory by Manly Wade Wellman
• Cowboy Lament - (1954) - poem by Norman R. Jaffray
• The Foundation of Science Fiction Success - (1954) - poem by Isaac Asimov

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1956) - essay by Anthony Boucher
• Imagine: A Proem - (1955) - poem by Fredric Brown
• You're Another - (1955) - novelette by Damon Knight
• Survival - (1955) - poem by Carlyn Coffin
• This Earth of Majesty - (1955) - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
• Birds Can't Count - (1955) - shortstory by Mildred Clingerman
• The Golem - (1955) - shortstory by Avram Davidson
• 1980 Overtures - (1955) - poem by Winona McClintic
• Pottage - [The People] - (1955) - novelette by Zenna Henderson
• The Vanishing American - (1955) - shortstory by Charles Beaumont
• Created He Them - (1955) - shortstory by Alice Eleanor Jones
• Silent, Upon Two Peaks... - (1955) - poem by Anthony Boucher
• Too Far - (1955) - shortstory by Fredric Brown
• A Matter of Energy - (1955) - shortstory by James Blish
• Nellthu - (1955) - shortstory by Anthony Boucher
• Dreamworld - (1955) - shortstory by Isaac Asimov
• One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts - (1955) - shortstory by Shirley Jackson
• The Glass of the Future - (1955) - poem by Anthony Boucher
• The Short Ones - (1955) - novelette by Raymond E. Banks
• The Last Prophet - (1955) - shortstory by Mildred Clingerman
• Botany Bay - (1955) - shortstory by P. M. Hubbard
• A Canticle for Leibowitz - (1955) - novelette by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• Lament by a Maker - (1955) - poem by L. Sprague de Camp
• The Doctrine of Original Design - (1955) - poem by Winona McClintic
• Pattern for Survival - (1955) - shortstory by Richard Matheson
• The Singing Bell - (1955) - shortstory by Isaac Asimov
• The Last Word - (1955) - shortstory by Chad Oliver and Charles Beaumont

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1957) - essay by Anthony Boucher
• The Cosmic Expense Account - (1956) - novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
• Blaze of Glory - (1955) - poem by Randall Garrett
• Mr. Sakrison's Halt - (1956) - shortstory by Mildred Clingerman
• The Woods Grow Darker - (1955) - poem by Leah Bodine Drake
• The Asa Rule - (1956) - shortstory by Jay Williams
• King's Evil - (1956) - shortstory by Avram Davidson
• Interview - (1955) - poem by Bird Ferguson
• The Census Takers - (1956) - shortstory by Frederik Pohl
• Flying Chaucer - (1956) - poem by Anthony Brode
• The Man Who Came Early - (1956) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• The Anti-Climax - (1956) - poem by Winona McClintic
• Final Clearance - (1956) - shortstory by Rachel Maddux
• The Silk and the Song - (1956) - novelette by Charles L. Fontenay
• The Shoddy Lands - (1956) - shortstory by C. S. Lewis
• I Want My Name in the Title - (1956) - poem by Winona McClintic
• The Last Present - (1956) - shortstory by Will Stanton
• No Man Pursueth - (1956) - novelette by Ward Moore
• I Don't Mind - (1956) - shortstory by Ron Smith
• The Barbarian - (1956) - shortstory by Poul Anderson
• Bright Destruction - (1956) - poem by Winona McClintic
• And Now the News ... - (1956) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• Icarus Montgolfier Wright - (1956) - shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• Free Flight - (1956) - poem by P. M. Hubbard

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1958) - essay by Anthony Boucher
• The Wines of Earth - (1957) - shortstory by Margaret St. Clair
• In Memoriam: Fletcher Pratt - (1957) - poem by James Blish
• Adjustment - (1957) - novelette by Ward Moore
• The Cage - (1957) - shortstory by A. Bertram Chandler
• Mr. Stilwell's Stage - (1957) - shortstory by Avram Davidson
• The Starting Line - (1956) - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
• Robin Hood, F.R.S. - (1956) - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
• Green Fingers - (1956) - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
• All That Glitters - (1956) - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
• Watch This Space - (1956) - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
• A Question of Residence - (1956) - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
• Expedition - (1956) - shortstory by Fredric Brown
• Lyric for Atom-Splitters - (1957) - poem by Doris Pitkin Buck
• Rescue - (1957) - shortstory by G. C. Edmondson
• The Horror Story Shorter By One Letter Than the Shortest Horror Story Ever Written - (1957) - shortstory by Ron Smith
• Between the Thunder and the Sun - (1957) - novelette by Chad Oliver
• A Loint of Paw - (1957) - shortstory by Isaac Asimov
• The Wild Wood - (1957) - shortstory by Mildred Clingerman
• Dodger Fan - (1957) - shortstory by Will Stanton
• Goddess in Granite - (1957) - novelette by Robert F. Young
• Yes, but... - (1957) - poem by Anthony Brode
• MS. Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie - (1957) - shortstory by C. M. Kornbluth
• Journey's End - (1957) - shortstory by Poul Anderson
• Full Circle - (1956) - poem by Dorothy Cowles Pinkney
• The Big Trek - (1957) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Best from F&SF 8) - (1959) - essay by Anthony Boucher
• Ministering Angels - (1955) - shortstory by C. S. Lewis
• Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot - (January 1958) - shortstory by Reginald Bretnor
• Backwardness - (1958) - shortstory by Poul Anderson
• The Wait - (1958) - shortstory by Kit Reed
• Origin of the Species - (1958) - poem by Karen Anderson
• The Up-to-Date Sorcerer - (1958) - shortstory by Isaac Asimov
• Epithalamium - (1958) - poem by Doris Pitkin Buck
• A Deskful of Girls - (1958) - novelette by Fritz Leiber
• Eripmav - (1958) - shortstory by Damon Knight
• The Watchers - (1958) - poem by Anthony Brode
• Poor Little Warrior! - (1958) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• The Better Bet - (1958) - poem by Anthony Brode
• The Omen - (1958) - shortstory by Shirley Jackson
• Ye Phantasie Writer and His Catte - (1958) - poem by Winona McClintic
• Gil Braltar - (1958) - shortstory by Jules Verne
• In Memoriam: Henry Kuttner - (1958) - poem by Karen Anderson
• The Grantha Sighting - (1958) - shortstory by Avram Davidson
• Theory of Rocketry - (1958) - shortstory by C. M. Kornbluth
• C. M. Kornbluth: A Memorial Bibliography (Recommended Reading) - (1958) - essay by Anthony Boucher
• A New Lo! - (1958) - essay by Ron Goulart
• Gorilla Suit - (1958) - shortstory by John Shepley
• Captivity - (1958) - novella by Zenna Henderson
• The Men Who Murdered Mohammed - (1958) - shortstory by Alfred Bester
• Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot - (August 1958) - shortstory by Reginald Bretnor
• Valise Macabre - (1957) - poem by Winona McClintic

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1960) - essay by Robert P. Mills
• Flowers for Algernon - (1959) - novelette by Daniel Keyes
• Me - (1959) - poem by Hilbert Schenck
• A Different Purpose - (1958) - shortfiction by Kem Bennett
• A Vampire's Saga - (1959) - poem by Norman Belkin
• Ralph Wollstonecraft Hedge: A Memoir - (1959) - shortstory by Ron Goulart
• Sportsman's Difficulty - (1959) - poem by Doris Pitkin Buck
• "All You Zombies..." - (1959) - shortstory by Robert A. Heinlein
• An Expostulation - (1959) - poem by C. S. Lewis
• Casey Agonistes - (1958) - shortstory by Richard McKenna
• Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: XII - (1959) - shortstory by Reginald Bretnor
• Eastward Ho! - (1958) - shortstory by William Tenn
• Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: XIV - (1959) - shortstory by Reginald Bretnor
• Soul Mate - (1959) - shortstory by Lee Sutton
• Call Me Mister - (1959) - poem by Anthony Brode
• What Rough Beast? - (1959) - novelette by Damon Knight
• Classical Query Composed While Shampooing - (1959) - poem by Doris Pitkin Buck
• Far from Home - (1958) - shortstory by Walter Tevis
• Space Burial - (1959) - poem by Brian W. Aldiss
• Invasion of the Planet of Love - (1959) - shortstory by George P. Elliott
• Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: X - (1959) - shortstory by Reginald Bretnor
• Dagon - (1959) - shortstory by Avram Davidson
• Pact - (1959) - shortstory by Poul Anderson
• To Give Them Beauty for Ashes - (1959) - poem by Winona McClintic
• No Matter Where You Go - (1959) - shortstory by Joel Townsley Rogers
• Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: XI - (1959) - shortstory by Reginald Bretnor
• The Willow Tree - (1959) - shortstory by Jane Rice
• Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: XIII - (1959) - shortfiction by Reginald Bretnor
• The Pi Man - (1959) - shortstory by Alfred Bester
• The Man Who Lost the Sea - (1959) - shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon
• Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: XV - (1959) - shortstory by Reginald Bretnor

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Robert P. Mills
• Nikita Eisenhower Jones - (1960) - novelette by Robert F. Young
• Who Dreams of Ivy - (1960) - shortstory by Will Mohler
• Mine Own Ways - (1960) - shortstory by Richard McKenna
• The Rainbow Gold - (1959) - shortstory by Jane Rice
• Crazy Maro - (1960) - novelette by Daniel Keyes
• Something - (1960) - shortstory by Allen Drury
• It's a Great Big Wonderful Universe - (1960) - shortstory by Vance Aandahl
• Man Overboard - (1960) - novelette by John Collier
• The Blind Pilot - (1959) - shortstory by Nathalie Henneberg
• A Divvil With the Women - (1960) - shortstory by Eric Frank Russell
• The Martyr - (1960) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• Double, Double, Toil and Trouble - (1960) - shortstory by Holley Cantine
• Après Nous - (1960) - shortstory by Avram Davidson
• Interbalance - (1960) - shortstory by Katherine MacLean
• Infinity - (1960) - poem by Rosser Reeves
• The Replacement - (1960) - shortstory by Robert Murray
• The Fellow Who Married the Maxill Girl - (1960) - novelette by Ward Moore

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1962) - essay by Robert P. Mills
• When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer - (1865) - poem by Walt Whitman
• The Sources of the Nile - (1961) - novelette by Avram Davidson
• Somebody to Play With - (1961) - shortstory by Jay Williams
• Softly While You're Sleeping - (1961) - shortfiction by Evelyn E. Smith
• The Machine That Won the War - [Multivac] - (1961) - shortstory by Isaac Asimov
• Go for Baroque - (1961) - shortstory by Jody Scott
• Time Lag - (1961) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• George - (1961) - shortstory by John Anthony West
• Shotgun Cure - (1961) - shortstory by Clifford D. Simak
• The One Who Returns - (1961) - shortstory by John Berry
• The Captivity - (1961) - shortstory by Charles G. Finney
• Alpha Ralpha Boulevard - (1961) - novelette by Cordwainer Smith
• Effigy - (1961) - poem by Rosser Reeves
• E=MC² - (1961) - poem by Rosser Reeves
• Harrison Bergeron - (1961) - shortstory by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• The Haunted Village - (1961) - novelette by Gordon R. Dickson

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1963) - essay by Avram Davidson
• Test - (1962) - shortstory by Theodore L. Thomas
• Please Stand By - (1962) - shortstory by Ron Goulart
• Who's in Charge Here? - (1962) - shortstory by James Blish
• Three for the Stars - (1962) - shortstory by Joseph Dickinson
• When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed - (1962) - shortstory by Vance Aandahl
• Landscape With Sphinxes - (1962) - shortstory by Karen Anderson
• My Dear Emily - (1962) - shortstory by Joanna Russ
• The Gumdrop King - (1962) - shortstory by Will Stanton
• The Golden Horn - [Tales of a Darkening World] - (1962) - novelette by Edgar Pangborn
• The Singular Events Which Occurred in the Hovel on the Alley Off of Eye Street - (1962) - shortstory by Avram Davidson
• A Kind of Artistry - (1962) - novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
• Two's a Crowd - (1962) - shortstory by Sasha Gilien
• The Man Without a Planet - (1962) - shortstory by Kate Wilhelm
• The Garden of Time - (1962) - shortstory by J. G. Ballard
• Hop-Friend - (1962) - shortstory by Terry Carr

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1964) - essay by Avram Davidson
• The Golden Brick - (1963) - shortstory by P. M. Hubbard
• Peggy and Peter Go to the Moon - (1963) - shortstory by Don White
• Now Wakes the Sea - (1963) - shortstory by J. G. Ballard
• Green Magic - (1963) - shortstory by Jack Vance
• Captain Honario Harpplayer, R.N. - (1963) - shortstory by Harry Harrison
• Treaty in Tartessos - (1963) - shortstory by Karen Anderson
• Hunter, Come Home - (1963) - novelette by Richard McKenna
• McNamara's Fish - (1963) - shortstory by Ron Goulart
• Niña Sol - (1963) - shortstory by Felix Marti-Ibanez
• They Don't Make Life Like They Used To - (1963) - novelette by Alfred Bester
• What Strange Stars and Skies - (1963) - novelette by Avram Davidson
• Eight O'Clock in the Morning - (1963) - shortstory by Ray Nelson
• Deluge - (1963) - novelette by Zenna Henderson

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1965) - essay by Avram Davidson
• Sacheverell - (1964) - shortstory by Avram Davidson
• Trade-In - (1964) - shortstory by Jack Sharkey
• The Illuminated Man - (1964) - novelette by J. G. Ballard
• A Bulletin from the Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Research at Marmouth, Mass. - (1964) - shortstory by Wilma Shore
• Automatic Tiger - (1964) - shortstory by Kit Reed
• The Court of Tartary - (1963) - shortstory by T. P. Caravan
• Touchstone - (1964) - shortstory by Terry Carr
• Thaw and Serve - (1964) - shortstory by Allen Kim Lang
• Nada - (1964) - shortstory by Thomas M. Disch
• Into the Shop - (1964) - shortstory by Ron Goulart
• A Rose for Ecclesiastes - (1963) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
• Olsen and the Gull - (1964) - shortstory by Eric St. Clair
• Dark Conception - (1964) - shortstory by Alexei Panshin and Joe L. Hensley
• The Compleat Consumators - (1964) - shortstory by Alan E. Nourse
• The House by the Crab Apple Tree - (1964) - novelette by S. S. Johnson
• The Girl With the Hundred Proof Eyes - (1964) - shortstory by Sharon Webb
• Fred One - (1964) - shortstory by James Ransom

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

Table of Contents:

• Credo - essay by James Blish
• Introduction (Best SF: 1967) - essay by Harry Harrison
• Hawksbill Station - (1967) - novella by Robert Silverberg
• Ultimate Construction - (1967) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• 1937 A.D.! - (1967) - shortstory by John Sladek
• Fifteen Miles - (1967) - shortstory by Ben Bova
• Blackmail - (1967) - shortstory by Fred Hoyle
• The Vine - (1967) - shortstory by Kit Reed
• Interview With a Lemming - (1941) - shortstory by James Thurber
• The Wreck of the Ship John B. - (1967) - novelette by Frank M. Robinson
• The Left-Hand Way - (1967) - shortstory by A. Bertram Chandler
• The Forest of Zil - (1967) - shortstory by Kris Neville
• The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race - (1966) - shortstory by J. G. Ballard
• Answering Service - (1967) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
• The Last Command - (1967) - shortstory by Keith Laumer
• Mirror of Ice - (1967) - shortstory by Gary Wright
• Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes - (1967) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• Knights of the Paper Spaceship: A Retrospective Glance at Science Fiction - essay by Brian W. Aldiss

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1969) - essay by Harry Harrison
• Budget Planet - (1968) - shortstory by Robert Sheckley
• Appointment on Prila - (1968) - shortstory by Bob Shaw
• Lost Ground - (1966) - novelette by David I. Masson
• The Rime of the Ancient SF Author, or Conventions and Recollections - (1968) - poem by John R. Pierce
• The Annex - (1968) - shortstory by John D. MacDonald
• Segregationist - (1967) - shortstory by Isaac Asimov
• Final War - (1968) - novelette by Barry N. Malzberg
• 2001: A Space Odyssey - (1968) - essay by Lester del Rey
• 2001: A Space Odyssey - (1968) - essay by Samuel R. Delany
• 2001: A Space Odyssey - (1968) - essay by Ed Emshwiller
• 2001: A Space Odyssey - (1969) - essay by Leon E. Stover
• Golden Acres - (1967) - novelette by Kit Reed
• Criminal in Utopia - (1968) - novelette by Mack Reynolds
• One Station of the Way - (1968) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
• Sweet Dreams, Melissa - (1968) - shortstory by Stephen Goldin
• To the Dark Star - (1968) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• Like Young - (1960) - shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon
• Afterword: The House That Jules Built - (1969) - essay by Brian W. Aldiss

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1970) - essay by Harry Harrison
• The Muse - (1968) - shortstory by Anthony Burgess
• Working in the Spaceship Yards - (1969) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• The Schematic Man - (1969) - shortstory by Frederik Pohl
• The Snows Are Melted, the Snows Are Gone - (1969) - shortstory by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Hospital of Transplanted Hearts - (1969) - poem by D. M. Thomas
• Eco-Catastrophe! - (1969) - shortstory by Paul R. Ehrlich
• The Castle on the Crag - (1969) - shortstory by Pg Wyal
• Nine Lives - (1969) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Progression of the Species - (1967) - poem by Brian W. Aldiss
• Report Back - (1969) - poem by John Cotton (poet)
• The Killing Ground - (1969) - shortstory by J. G. Ballard
• The Dannold Cheque - (1969) - shortstory by Ken W. Purdy
• Womb to Tomb - (1969) - shortstory by Joseph Wesley
• Like Father - (1969) - shortstory by Jon Hartridge
• The Electric Ant - (1969) - shortstory by Philip K. Dick
• The Man Inside - (1969) - shortstory by Bruce McAllister
• Now Hear the Word of the Lord - (1969) - shortstory by Algis Budrys
• Afterword - An Awful Lot of Copy - (1970) - essay by Brian W. Aldiss

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Harry Harrison
• Gone Fishin' - (1970) - shortstory by Robin Scott Wilson
• The Ugupu Bird - (1959) - shortstory by Slawomir Mrozek
• Black Is Beautiful - (1970) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• The Lost Face - (1964) - novelette by Josef Nesvadba
• Gorman - (1969) - shortstory by Jerry Farber
• Mary and Joe - (1962) - shortstory by Naomi Mitchison
• Oil-Mad Bug-Eyed Monsters - (1970) - shortstory by Hayden Howard
• A Pedestrian Accident - (1969) - shortstory by Robert Coover
• The Asian Shore - (1970) - novelette by Thomas M. Disch
• Traffic Problem - (1970) - shortstory by Bill Earls
• Erem - (1963) - shortstory by Gleb Anfilov (trans. of ???? 1962)
• Car Sinister - (1970) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• "Franz Kafka" by Jorge Luís Borges - (1970) - shortstory by Alvin Greenberg
• Pacem Est - (1970) - shortstory by Kris Neville and Barry N. Malzberg
• The Day Equality Broke Out - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1972) - essay by Harry Harrison
• Doctor Zombie and His Furry Little Friends - (1971) - shortstory by Robert Sheckley
• Conquest - (1971) - shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg
• Gehenna - (1971) - shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg
• A Meeting With Medusa - (1971) - novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
• The Genius - (1971) - shortstory by Donald Barthelme
• Angouleme - (1971) - shortstory by Thomas M. Disch
• If "Hair" Were Revived in 2016 - (1971) - shortstory by Arnold M. Auerbach
• Statistician's Day - (1970) - shortstory by James Blish
• The Science Fiction Horror Movie Pocket Computer - (1971) - shortstory by Gahan Wilson
• The Hunter at His Ease - (1970) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• The Cohen Dog Exclusion Act - (1971) - shortstory by Steven Schrader
• Gauntlet - (1972) - shortstory by Richard E. Peck
• Report - (1971) - poem by Kingsley Amis
• Fisherman - (1971) - poem by Lawrence Sail
• The Ideal Police State - (1971) - poem by Charles Baxter
• The Pagan Rabbi - (1966) - novelette by Cynthia Ozick
• An Uneven Evening - (1971) - shortstory by Steve Herbst
• Ornithanthropus - (1971) - shortstory by B. Alan Burhoe
• No Direction Home - (1971) - shortstory by Norman Spinrad
• Afterword: A Day in the Life-Style of... - essay by Brian W. Aldiss

THE MOST EXCITING FICTION OF OUR TIME! -- The most dynamic fiction of out time, science fiction is also the fastest-expanding, both in readership and in the range of authors who employ it. The established masters - mostly Americans, a few Englishmen -- continue to show the way. The established outlets -- American s-f magazines mostly, some original anthologies -- continue to provide most of its nurture. But faithful reading of a handful of American publications is no longer sufficient to keep up with the most exciting work being done.

Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss have established this series as definitive in the field by looking much further afield. This year's selection is built around the established sources, but includes also a brilliant take by the Brazillian Andre Carneiro; and astonishing and delightful story by a young Ghanaian, Victor Sabah; and other unexpected pleasures.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1973) - essay by Harry Harrison
• In the Matter of the Assassin Merefirs - (1972) - shortstory by Ken W. Purdy
• As for Our Fatal Continuity... - (1972) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• The Old Folks - (1972) - shortstory by James E. Gunn
• From Sea to Shining Sea - (1972) - shortstory by Jonathan Ela
• Weihnachtabend - (1972) - novelette by Keith Roberts
• Cartoon: "Invisibility Competition" - (1973) - interior artwork by Y. Aratovsky
• Cartoon: no caption - (1973) - interior artwork by O. Tesler
• Cartoon: "Grin and Bear It" - (1973) - interior artwork by Lichty
• Cartoon: no caption - (1973) - interior artwork by William Rotsler
• The Years - (1972) - shortstory by Robert F. Young
• Darkness - (1972) - shortstory by André Carneiro
• Cymbal Player - (1972) - poem by Lawrence Sail
• Report from the Planet Proteus - (1972) - poem by Lawrence Sail
• Columbus on St. Domenica - (1972) - poem by John Cotton (poet)
• After Death - (1972) - poem by Patricia Beer
• Faex Delenda Est - (1972) - poem by Theodore R. Cogswell
• Words of Warning - (1972) - shortstory by Alex Hamilton
• Out, Wit! - (1972) - shortstory by Howard L. Myers
• An Imaginary Journey to the Moon - (1972) - shortstory by Victor Sabah
• The Head and the Hand - (1972) - shortstory by Christopher Priest
• Hero - (1972) - novella by Joe Haldeman
• Afterword: The Year of the Big Spring Clean - (1973) - essay by Brian W. Aldiss

The definitive "Year's Best" selection featuring works by Thomas M. Disch, Robert Sheckley, Kingsley Amis, Joesf Nesvadba, R. A. Lafferty, and other American and international masters. Edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss. With stories from the traditional science fiction sources - magazines and orignal anthologies - and from international SF and literary periodicals, Harrison and Aldiss have produced their biggest and best annual selection ever.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1974) - essay by Harry Harrison
• Roller Ball Murder - (1973) - shortstory by William Harrison
• Mason's Life - (1972) - shortstory by Kingsley Amis
• Welcome to the Standard Nightmare - (1973) - shortstory by Robert Sheckley
• Serpent Burning on an Altar - (1973) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• We Are Very Happy Here - (1973) - novelette by Joe Haldeman
• The Birds - (1973) - shortstory by Thomas M. Disch
• The Wind and the Rain - (1973) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• Ten Years Ago ... - (1972) - shortstory by Max Beerbohm
• Parthen - (1973) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• The Man Who Collected the First of September 1973 - (1973) - shortstory by Tor Åge Bringsvaerd
• Captain Nemo's Last Adventure - (1973) - novelette by Josef Nesvadba
• La Befana - (1973) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• A Curse - (1972) - poem by W. H. Auden
• Auto-Apotheosis - (1972) - poem by Anthony Haden-Guest
• Two Poems - (1973) - poem by William John Watkins
• Sport - (1973) - poem by Steven Utley
• The Window in Dante's Hell - (1973) - shortstory by Michael Bishop
• Sister Francetta and Pig Baby - (1973) - shortstory by Kenneth Bernard
• Escape - (1973) - shortstory by Ilya Varshavsky
• Early Bird - (1973) - shortstory by Theodore R. Cogswell and Theodore L. Thomas
• Afterword: The Wizard and the Plumber - (1974) - essay by Brian W. Aldiss

Table of Contents:

• Editorial - (1975) - essay by Harry Harrison
• After King Kong Fell - (1973) - shortstory by Philip José Farmer
• When Petals Fall - (1973) - novelette by Sydney J. Van Scyoc
• Paleontology: An Experimental Science - (1974) - shortstory by Robert R. Olsen
• The Women Men Don't See - (1973) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Listen with Big Brother - (1974) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• The Rise of Airstrip One - (1974) - shortstory by Clive James
• Owing to Circumstances Beyond Our Control 1984 Has Been Unavoidably Detained... - (1974) - shortstory by Alan Coren
• Lost and Found - (1974) - shortstory by Thomas Baum
• The Four-Hour Fugue - (1974) - shortstory by Alfred Bester
• The Scream - (1974) - novelette by Kate Wilhelm
• The Gahan Wilson Horror Movie Pocket Computer - (1974) - essay by Gahan Wilson
• The Executioner's Beautiful Daughter - (1974) - shortstory by Angela Carter
• After Weightlessness - (1974) - poem by Lawrence Sail
• A Picture by Klee - (1974) - poem by Lawrence Sail
• Science Fiction Story - (1973) - poem by Duane Ackerson
• DNA - (1974) - poem by Duane Ackerson
• Eyes of a Woman-from a Portrait by Picasso - (1975) - poem by Lisa Conesa
• Songs of War - (1974) - novelette by Kit Reed
• Time Deer - (1974) - shortstory by Craig Strete
• A Typical Day - (1974) - shortstory by Doris Piserchia
• Programmed Love Story - (1974) - shortstory by Ian Watson
• Afterword: The Galaxy Begins at Home - (1975) - essay by Brian W. Aldiss

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Harry Harrison
• A Scraping at the Bones - (1975) - shortstory by Algis Budrys
• Changelings - (1975) - shortstory by Lisa Tuttle
• The Santa Claus Compromise - (1974) - shortstory by Thomas M. Disch
• A Galaxy Called Rome - (1975) - novelette by Barry N. Malzberg
• A Twelvemonth - (1975) - poem by Peter Redgrove
• The Custodians - (1975) - novelette by Richard Cowper
• The Linguist - (1975) - shortstory by Stephen Robinett
• Settling the World - (1975) - shortstory by M. John Harrison
• The Chaste Planet - (1975) - shortstory by John Updike
• End Game - (1975) - novelette by Joe Haldeman
• The Lop-Eared Cat that Devoured Philadelphia - (1975) - poem by Louis Phillips
• A Dead Singer - (1974) - novelette by Michael Moorcock
• Afterword: Science Fiction on the Titanic - (1976) - essay by Brian W. Aldiss

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 Michael Moorcock
• The Small Betraying Detail - (1965) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• The Keys to December - (1966) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
• The Assassination Weapon - (1966) - shortstory by J. G. Ballard
• Nobody Axed You - (1965) - novelette by John Brunner
• A Two-Timer - (1966) - novelette by David I. Masson
• The Music Makers - (1965) - shortstory by Langdon Jones
• The Squirrel Cage - (1966) - shortstory by Thomas M. Disch

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Michael Moorcock
• Another Little Boy - (1966) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• The Poets of Millgrove, Iowa - (1966) - shortstory by John Sladek
• The Transfinite Choice - (1966) - shortstory by David I. Masson
• You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe - (1966) - shortstory by J. G. Ballard
• The Total Experience Kick - (1966) - shortstory by Charles Platt
• The Contest - (1967) - shortstory by Thomas M. Disch
• The Empty Room - (1967) - shortstory by Thomas M. Disch
• The Descent of the West End - (1967) - shortstory by Thomas M. Disch
• The Singular Quest of Martin Borg - (1965) - novelette by George Collyn
• The Countenance - (1964) - shortstory by Barrington J. Bayley
• The Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagittarius - (1965) - shortstory by Michael Moorcock
• Sisohpromatem - (1967) - shortstory by Kit Reed
• For a Breath I Tarry - (1966) - novelette by Roger Zelazny

Michael Moorcock's New Worlds may be the most dynamic SF magazine in the world today. Here is a vigorous, trail-blazing magazine whose writers carry you on voyages into the unknown--voyages which are original, disturbing & above all different.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Michael Moorcock
• In Passage of the Sun - (1966) - novelette by George Collyn
• Multi-Value Motorway - (1967) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• The Great Clock - (1966) - shortstory by Langdon Jones
• The Post-Mortem People - (1966) - shortstory by Peter Tate
• The Disaster Story - (1966) - shortstory by Charles Platt
• The Heat Death of the Universe - (1967) - shortstory by Pamela Zoline
• Coranda - (1967) - novelette by Keith Roberts
• The Soft World Sequence - (1967) - poem by George MacBeth
• Kazoo - (1967) - shortstory by James Sallis
• Integrity - (1964) - shortstory by Barrington J. Bayley
• The Mountain - (1965) - shortstory by Michael Moorcock

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Michael Moorcock
• The Ship of Disaster - (1965) - shortstory by Barrington J. Bayley
• The Square Root of Brain - (1968) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
• In Seclusion - (1966) - novelette by Harvey Jacobs
• Transient - (1965) - shortstory by Langdon Jones
• The Head-Rape - (1968) - poem by D. M. Thomas
• The Source - (1965) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• Period of Gestation - (1964) - shortstory by Thom Keyes
• Dr. Gelabius - (1968) - shortstory by Hilary Bailey
• The Valve Transcript - (1968) - shortstory by Joel Zoss
• Linda and Daniel and Spike - (1967) - shortstory by Thomas M. Disch
• Masterson and the Clerks - (1967) - novella by John Sladek

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Michael Moorcock
• The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde - (1969) - shortstory by Norman Spinrad
• The Death Module - (1967) - shortstory by J. G. Ballard
• The Last Inn on the Road - (1967) - shortstory by Roger Zelazny and Dannie Plachta
• The Spectrum - (1969) - poem by D. M. Thomas
• The Tennyson Effect - (1966) - shortstory by Graham Hall
• The Serpent of Kundalini - [Colin Charteris] - (1968) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• Mars Pastorale - (1967) - shortstory by Peter Tate
• Biographical Note on Ludwig Van Beethoven II - (1968) - shortstory by Langdon Jones
• A Landscape of Shallows - (1968) - shortstory by Christopher Finch
• Scream - (1968) - shortstory by Giles Gordon
• The Rodent Laboratory - (1966) - shortstory by Charles Platt

Table of Contents:

• The Killing Ground by J. G. Ballard
• Gravity by Harvey Jacobs
• The Eye of the Lens by Langdon Jones
• A Man Must Die by John Clute
• Mr Blacks Poems of Innocence by D. M. Thomas
• The Ersatz Wine by Christopher Priest
• Lib by Carol Emshwiller
• Ba Ba Blocksheep by M. John Harrison
• The Luger is a 9mm Automatic Handgun with Parabellum Action by Jerrold Mundis
• The Delhi Division by Michael Moorcock

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1971) - essay by Michael Moorcock
• The Ash Circus - (1969) - shortstory by M. John Harrison
• All the King's Men - (1965) - novelette by Barrington J. Bayley
• Mix-Up - (1964) - shortstory by George Collyn
• Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones - (1968) - novelette by Samuel R. Delany
• Lone Zone - (1965) - novella by Charles Platt
• Flower-Gathering - (1969) - poem by Langdon Jones
• Transplant - (1969) - poem by Langdon Jones
• The Apocalypse Machine - (1968) - shortstory by Leo Zorin
• The Beach Murders - (1966) - shortstory by J. G. Ballard
• The Wall - (1965) - shortstory by Josephine Saxton
• The Tank Trapeze - (1969) - shortstory by Michael Moorcock

Table of Contents:

• A Boy and His Dog - (1969) - novella by Harlan Ellison
• The Fall of Frenchy Steiner - (1964) - novelette by Hilary Bailey
• The Bait Principle - (1970) - shortstory by M. John Harrison
• Salvador Dali (The Innocent as Paranoid) - (1969) - essay by J. G. Ballard
• The Last Lonely Man - (1964) - shortstory by John Brunner
• The Radius Riders - (1962) - shortstory by Barrington J. Bayley
• The Big Sound - (1962) - shortstory by Barrington J. Bayley
• The Ship that Sailed the Ocean of Space - (1962) - shortstory by Barrington J. Bayley
• Double Time - (1962) - shortstory by Barrington J. Bayley
• The Erogenous Zone - (1969) - shortfiction by Graham Charnock

Twenty-six new short stories representing the state of the art in international science fiction.

The future is coming. It knows no bounds, and neither should science fiction.

They say the more things change the more they stay the same. But over the last hundred years, science fiction has changed. Vibrant new generations of writers have sprung up across the globe, proving the old adage false. From Ghana to India, from Mexico to France, from Singapore to Cuba, they draw on their unique backgrounds and culture, changing the face of the genre one story at a time.

Prepare yourself for a journey through the wildest reaches of the imagination, to visions of Earth as it might be and the far corners of the universe. Along the way, you will meet robots and monsters, adventurers and time travellers, rogues and royalty.

In The Best of World SF, award-winning author Lavie Tidhar acts as guide and companion to a world of stories, from never-before-seen originals to award winners, from twenty-three countries and seven languages. Because the future is coming and it belongs to us all.

Stories:

• 'Immersion' by Aliette de Bodard
• 'Debtless' by Chen Qiufan
• 'Fandom for Robots' by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
• 'Virtual Snapshots' by Tlotlo Tsamaase
• 'What The Dead Man Said' by Chinelo Onwualu
• 'Delhi' by Vandana Singh
• 'The Wheel of Samsara' by Han Song
• 'Xingzhou' by Yi-Sheng Ng
• 'Prayer' by Taiyo Fujii
• 'The Green Ship' by Francesco Verso
• 'Eyes of the Crocodile' by Malena Salazar Macia
• 'Bootblack' by Tade Thompson
• 'The Emptiness in the Heart of all Things' by Fabio Fernandes
• 'The Sun From Both Sides' by R.S.A. Garcia
• 'Dump' by Cristina Jurado
• 'Rue Chair' by Gerardo Horacio Porcayo
• 'His Master's Voice' by Hannu Rajaniemi
• 'Benjamin Schneider's Little Greys' by Nir Yaniv
• 'The Cryptid' by Emil H. Petersen
• 'The Bank of Burkina Faso' by Ekaterina Sedia
• 'An Incomplete Guide...' by Kuzhali Manickavel
• 'The Old Man with The Third Hand' by Kofi Nyameye
• 'The Green' by Lauren Beukes
• 'The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir' by Karin Tidbeck
• 'Prime Meridian' by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• 'If At First You Don't Succeed' by Zen Cho

Twenty-nine new short stories representing the state of the art in international science fiction.

The second annual installment to the 'rare and wonderful' (The Times) The Best of World SF Volume 1, this collection of twenty-nine stories, including eight original and exclusive additions, represents the state of the art in international science fiction.

Navigating around the globe, The Best of World SF Volume 2 features writers from Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Greece, Grenada, India, Iraq, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, The Philippines, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

Each story has been selected by World SF expert and award-winning author Lavie Tidhar. Taking us into space -- Mars at first, then the stars -- and then back to a strange, transformed Earth via AI, gods, aliens and the undead, the collection traces the ever-changing meaning of the genre from some of the most exciting voices writing today.

This is not a retrospective of what science fiction around the world used to look like. This is a snapshot of what some of it looks like now. And it's never been more exciting.

Table of Contents:

• In Search of European Science Fiction - essay by Richard D. Nolane
• Test Flesh - short story by Gianni Montanari (trans. of Universo e Dintorni 1978)
• Parallel Worlds - short story by Paul van Herck (trans. of Parallel 1978)
• The Fifth Time Out - short story by Bertil Martensson
• Drugs'll Do You - (1978) - short story by Kathinka Lannoy (trans. of Drugs)
• Opportunities Galore (Cuestión de oportunidades) - (1978) - novelette by Gabriel Bermúdez Castillo (trans. of Cuestión de oportunidades)
• Fill in the Blank(s) - (1978) - novelette by Michel Jeury (trans. of Les colmateurs)
• Where Neuroses Thrive - short story by Richard D. Nolane (trans. of Où fleurissent les névroses 1978)
• Back to Earth, Finally - (1976) - novelette by Philip Goy (trans. of Retour à la Terre, définitif)
• Take Me Down the River - (1979) - short story by Sam J. Lundwall
• Turnabout - (1977) - short story by Ingar Knudtsen, Jr.
• Aruna - (1979) - short story by Erwin Neutzsky-Wulff
• Red Rhombuses - (1981) - novelette by Lino Aldani (trans. of Screziato di rosso 1977)
• The Many Miniworlds of Matuschek - novelette by Thomas Ziegler (trans. of Matuscheks Welten 1978)
• End of an Era - novelette by Hans Joachim Alpers and Ronald M. Hahn (trans. of Zusammenbruch 1976)
• Meet the Authors - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• Preface - essay by Richard D. Nolane
• Shoobeedoowah Across the Universe - short story by Karl Michael Armer (trans. of Durch das Weltall, schubiduwah 1986)
• The Hospital, a Cynical Fable - short story by Daniel Walther (trans. of L'hôpital, une fable cynique 1982)
• El Pape - (1983) - novelette by Bob van Laerhoven (trans. of El Pape)
• John Henry - short story by Øyvind Myhre
• The Biological Truth - (1982) - short story by Veikko Rekunen
• Disslish the Aquamancer - short story by Tais Teng (trans. of Disslish de Aquamancer 1981)
• The Last Atlantean - short story by Francis Carsac (trans. of Celui qui vint de la Grande Eau 1982)
• Mikey Turns Three - short story by Merete Kruuse (trans. of Mugger Blive Tre)
• The Emerald-Studded Scepter - novelette by Carlos Saiz Cidoncha (trans. of El cetro de esmeraldas 1980)
• In Search of Aurade - novelette by Gianluigi Zuddas (trans. of Per cercare Aurade 1981)
• The Ogre's Head - short story by Richard D. Nolane (trans. of La tête de l'ogre)
• Haike the Heretic's Writings - novelette by Wolfgang Jeschke (trans. of Dokumente über den Zustand des Landes vor der Verheerung 1981)

Contents:

• Preface (The Year's Best Military SF & Space Opera) - essay by David Afsharirad
• Excitement! Adventure! Science Fiction! - essay by David Drake
• Codename: Delphi - (2014) - shortstory by Linda Nagata
• Persephone Descending - (2014) - novelette by Derek Künsken
• The End of the Silk Road - (2014) - novelette by David D. Levine
• Picket Ship - shortstory by Brad R. Torgersen
• Decaying Orbit - (2014) - shortstory by Robert R. Chase
• Morrigan in the Sunglare - (2014) - shortstory by Seth Dickinson
• Light and Shadow - (2014) - shortstory by Linda Nagata
• Icarus at Noon - (2014) - shortstory by Eric Leif Davin
• Soft Casualty - shortstory by Michael Z. Williamson
• Palm Strike's Last Case - (2014) - novelette by Charlie Jane Anders
• Brood - (2013) - novelette by Stephen Gaskell
• Stealing Arturo - novelette by William Ledbetter
• Rules of Engagement - (2014) - novelette by Matthew Johnson
• Ten Rules for Being an Intergalactic Smuggler (the Successful Kind) - (2014) - novelette by Holly Black
• War Dog - (2014) - shortstory by Mike Barretta

The year's best military SF, space opera, and adventure SF stories. The second of a new series featuring the best stories of the year from the top magazines and online venues with a military and adventure science fiction theme.

The new Golden Age of short science fiction has arrived! Selected from the premier print and online markets in the field, here are stories to challenge, provoke, thrill, and entertain. Stories of future military men and women, space opera on a grand scale, and edge-of-your-seat adventure science fiction in the grand pulp tradition. The second volume in an on-going series, The Year's Best Military and Adventure Science Fiction, features stories by giants of the genre and the hottest new voices.

Table of Contents:

• "The Siege of Denver" by Brendan Dubois
• "Save What You Can" by David Drake
• "For The Love Of Sylvia City" by Andrea M. Pawley
• "The Wizard of The Trees" by Joe R. Lansdale
• "Helping Hand" by Claudine Griggs
• "Morrigan In Shadow" by Seth Dickinson
• "Remember Day" by Sarah Pinsker
• "Gyre" by Brad R. Torgersen
• "Twilight on Olympus" by Eric Leif Davin
• "The Trouble With Telepaths" by Hank Davis
• "This Is The Way The Universe Ends: With A Bang" by Brian Dolton
• "The Tumbledowns Of Cleopatra Abyss" by David Brin

The Year's Best Military and Adventure SF series continues! Selected from the top print and online markets, these stories represent the best in modern military sf, space opera, and adventure sf.

Tales of brave military men and women, thrilling derring-do, and edge-of-your-seat suspense. Selected from the top markets, both print and digital, The Year's Best Military and Adventure SF Volume 3 offers up the cream of the crop in short science fiction today. Stories to get your blood racing, your heart pounding, and your fingers turning the pages. Stories to challenge, provoke, thrill, and entertain. Stories that prove the new Golden Age is now!

Table of Contents:

• Preface - essay by David Afsharirad
• Introduction - essay by David Weber
• Cadet Cruise - (2016) - short fiction by David Drake
• Tethers - (2016) - short fiction by William Ledbetter
• Unlinkage - (2016) - novelette by Eric Del Carlo
• Not in Vain - (2016) - novelette by Kacey Ezell
• Between Nine and Eleven - (2016) - short story by Adam Roberts
• Sephine and the Leviathan - (2016) - novelette by Jack Schouten
• The Good Food - (2016) - short fiction by Michael Ezell
• If I Could Give This Time Machine Zero Stars, I Would - (2016) - short story by James Wesley Rogers
• Wise Child - (2016) - novelette by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
• Starhome - (2016) - short fiction by Michael Z. Williamson
• The Art of Failure - (2016) - short fiction by Robert Dawson
• The Last Tank Commander - (2016) - novelette by Allen Stroud
• One Giant Leap - (2016) - short story by Jay Werkheiser
• The Immortals: Anchorage - (2016) - novelette by David Adams
• Backup Man - (2016) - short story by Paul Di Filippo

The Year's Best Military and Adventure SF series roars into its fourth year, with more stories of derring-do, military combat, and edge of your seat suspense. Thrilling tales of grand science fiction adventure and military action. Selected from the top print and digital markets, these stories are guaranteedd to challenge, provoke, and entertain.

Table of Contents:

• Preface - essay by David Afsharirad
• The Secret Life of Bots - (2017) - novelette by Suzanne Palmer
• The Snatchers - (2017) - short story by Edward McDermott
• Imperium Imposter - (2017) - short story by Jody Lynn Nye
• A Thousand Deaths Through Flesh and Stone - (2017) - short story by Brian Trent
• Hope Springs - (2017) - novelette by Lindsay Buroker
• Orphans of Aries - (2017) - novelette by Brad R. Torgersen
• By the Red Giant's Light - (2017) - short story by Larry Niven
• Family Over Blood - (2017) - novelette by Kacey Ezell
• A Man They Didn't Know - (2017) - short story by David Hardy
• Swarm - (2017) - short story by Sean Patrick Hazlett
• A Hamal in Hollywood - (2017) - novelette by Martin L. Shoemaker
• Lovers - (2017) - novelette by Tony Daniel
• The Ghost Ship Anastasia - (2017) - novelette by Rich Larson
• You Can Always Change the Past - (2017) - short story by George Nikolopoulos
• Our Sacred Honor - (2017) - novelette by David Weber

The Year's Best Military and Adventure SF series roars into its fifth year, with more stories of derring-do, military combat, and edge of your seat suspense. Thrilling tales of grand science fiction adventure and military action. Selected from the top print and digital markets, these stories are guaranteed to challenge, provoke, and entertain.

Table of Contents:

• "Love in the Time of Interstellar War" by Brendan DuBois
• "Going Dark" by Richard Fox
• "Scrapyard Ship" by Felix R. Savage
• "Broken Wings" by William Ledbetter
• "A Song of Home, the Organ Grinds" by James Beamon
• "Once on the Blue Moon" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• "Crash-Site" by Brian Trent
• "Thirty-three Percent Joe" by Suzanne Palmer
• "Hate in the Darkness" by Michael Z. Williamson
• "Homunculus" by Stephen Lawson
• "Not Made for Us" by Christopher Ruocchio
• "The Erkennen Job" by Chris Pourteau

Table of Contents:

• Bernie the Faust - (1963) - novelette by William Tenn
• Fortress Ship - [Berserker] - (1963) - shortstory by Fred Saberhagen
• Mr. Waterman - (1961) - shortstory by Peter Redgrove
• Mrs. Pigafetta Swims Well - (1959) - shortstory by Reginald Bretnor
• Tree Trunks (cartoon) - (1963) - interior artwork by John Gallagher
• They Don't Make Life Like They Used To - (1963) - novelette by Alfred Bester
• The Great Nebraska Sea - (1963) - shortstory by Allan Danzig
• The Faces Outside - (1963) - shortstory by Bruce McAllister
• A Slight Case of Limbo - (1963) - shortstory by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
• 237 Talking Statues, Etc. - (1963) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
• The Jazz Machine - (1962) - poem by Richard Matheson
• Mourning Song - (1963) - shortstory by Charles Beaumont
• Dog Eat Dog (cartoon) - (1963) - interior artwork by Jules Feiffer
• The Jewbird - (1963) - shortstory by Bernard Malamud
• On the Fourth Planet - (1963) - shortstory by J. F. Bone
• Poppa Needs Shorts - (1964) - shortstory by Walt Richmond and Leigh Richmond
• Double Standard - (1963) - shortstory by Fredric Brown
• Interview - (1963) - shortstory by Frank A. Javor
• Eight O'Clock in the Morning - (1963) - shortstory by Ray Nelson
• Where Is Everybody? - (1963) - essay by Ben Bova
• The Earth Dwellers - (1963) - novelette by André Maurois
• The Nobel Prize Winners - (1963) - shortstory by W. J. J. Gordon
• Hot Planet - (1963) - shortstory by Hal Clement
• IBM (cartoon) - (1963) - interior artwork by Mort Gerberg
• Confessions of the First Number - (1963) - shortstory by Cliff Owsley
• The Ming Vase - (1963) - shortstory by E. C. Tubb
• A Bargain with Cashel - (1963) - shortstory by Gerald Kersh
• Drunkboat - (1963) - novelette by Cordwainer Smith
• Summation: SF, 1963 - essay by Judith Merril
• Books - essay by Anthony Boucher
• Honorable Mentions - essay by Judith Merril

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

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Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Science Fiction is Alive and Well - (1996) - essay by David G. Hartwell
• Think Like a Dinosaur - (1995) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• Wonders of the Invisible World - (1995) - shortstory by Patricia A. McKillip
• Hot Times in Magma City - (1995) - novella by Robert Silverberg
• Gossamer - (1995) - shortstory by Stephen Baxter
• A Worm in the Well - (1995) - novelette by Gregory Benford
• Downloading Midnight - (1995) - novelette by William Browning Spencer
• For White Hill - (1995) - novella by Joe Haldeman
• In Saturn Time - (1995) - shortstory by William Barton
• Coming of Age in Karhide - (1995) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Three Descents of Jeremy Baker - (1995) - shortstory by Roger Zelazny
• Evolution - (1995) - novelette by Nancy Kress
• The Day the Aliens Came - (1995) - shortstory by Robert Sheckley
• Microbe - (1995) - shortstory by Joan Slonczewski
• The Ziggurat - (1995) - novella by Gene Wolfe

Building on the unprecedented success of last season's Year's Best, award-winning editor David G. Hartwell has once again scoured the magazines and anthologies to bring together the very best of today's edgy, audacious, and innovative SF. Here are machines that dream and stars that sing; tales from notable pros and heretofore unknowns;wondrously diverse stories that share the sense of wonder that is the mark of great science fiction.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1997) - essay by David G. Hartwell
• After a Lean Winter - (1996) - novelette by Dave Wolverton
• In the Upper Room - (1996) - novelette by Terry Bisson
• Thinkertoy - (1996) - short story by John Brunner
• Zoomers - (1996) - short story by Gregory Benford
• Out of the Mouths - (1996) - novelette by Sheila Finch
• Breakaway, Backdown - (1996) - short story by James Patrick Kelly
• Tobacco Words - (1996) - novelette by Yves Meynard
• Invasion - (1996) - short story by Joanna Russ
• The House of Mourning - (1996) - short story by Brian Stableford
• Life Edit - (1996) - short story by Damon Knight
• First Tuesday - (1996) - short story by Robert Reed
• The Spear of the Sun - (1996) - short story by David Langford
• Counting Cats in Zanzibar - (1996) - short story by Gene Wolfe
• Bicycle Repairman - (1996) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
• Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland - (1996) - short story by Gwyneth Jones
• Doblin's Lecture - (1996) - short story by Allen Steele
• The Bride of Elvis - (1996) - short story by Kathleen Ann Goonan
• Forget Luck - (1996) - short story by Kate Wilhelm
• Nonstop to Portales - (1996) - novelette by Connie Willis
• Columbiad - (1996) - short story by Stephen Baxter

Enjoy today's most awesome and innovative science fiction, chosen by acclaimed editor David G. Hartwell from the best short fiction published over the last year.

Like its two distinguished processors, Year's Best SF 3 is a cybercopia of astonishing stories from familiar favorites and rising stars, all calculated to blow your mind, scorch your, senses, erase your inhibitions, and reinitialize your intelligence.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Year's Best SF 3) - (1998) - essay by David G. Hartwell
• Petting Zoo - (1997) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• The Wisdom of Old Earth - (1997) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
• The Firefly Tree - (1997) - shortstory by Jack Williamson
• Thirteen Views of a Cardboard City - (1997) - shortstory by William Gibson
• The Nostalginauts - (1997) - shortstory by S. N. Dyer
• Guest Law - (1997) - novelette by John C. Wright
• The Voice - (1997) - shortstory by Gregory Benford
• Yeyuka - (1997) - shortstory by Greg Egan
• An Office Romance - (1997) - shortstory by Terry Bisson
• Itsy Bitsy Spider - (1997) - shortstory by James Patrick Kelly
• Beauty in the Night - (1997) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
• Mr. Pale - (1997) - shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• The Pipes of Pan - (1997) - novelette by Brian Stableford
• Always True to Thee, in My Fashion - (1997) - shortstory by Nancy Kress
• Canary Land - (1997) - novelette by Tom Purdom
• Universal Emulators - (1997) - shortstory by Tom Cool
• Fair Verona - (1997) - novelette by R. Garcia y Robertson
• Great Western - (1997) - novelette by Kim Newman
• Turnover - (1997) - shortstory by Geoffrey A. Landis
• The Mendelian Lamp Case - (1997) - novelette by Paul Levinson
• Kiss Me - (1997) - shortstory by Katherine MacLean
• London Bone - (1997) - novelette by Michael Moorcock

Travel to the Farthest Reaches of the Imagination

Acclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell is back with his fourth annual high-powered collection of the year's most inventive, entertaining, and awe-inspiring science fiction. In short, the best.

Here are stories from today's top name authors, plus exciting newcomers, all eager to land you on exotic planets, introduce you to strange new life forms, and show you scenes more amazing than anything you've imagined.

So sit back and blast off for an amazing trip with

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1999) - essay by David G. Hartwell
• Market Report - (1998) - novelette by Alexander Jablokov
• A Dance to Strange Musics - (1998) - novelette by Gregory Benford
• The Year of the Mouse - (1998) - short story by Norman Spinrad
• The Day Before They Came - (1998) - short story by Mary Soon Lee
• This Side of Independence - (1998) - short story by Rob Chilson
• The Twelfth Album - (1998) - short story by Stephen Baxter
• Story of Your Life - (1998) - novella by Ted Chiang
• Whiptail - (1998) - short story by Robert Reed
• The Eye of God - (1998) - novelette by Mary Rosenblum
• Rules of Engagement - (1998) - novelette by Michael F. Flynn
• Radiant Doors - (1998) - short story by Michael Swanwick
• Unravelling the Thread - (1998) - short story by Jean-Claude Dunyach
• That Thing Over There - (1998) - short story by Dominic Green
• The Allies - (1998) - novelette by Mark S. Geston
• My Pal Clunky - (1998) - short story by Ron Goulart
• Life in the Extreme - (1998) - short story by David Brin
• Near Enough to Home - (1998) - short story by Michael Skeet
• A Game of Consequences - (1998) - short story by David Langford
• State of Nature - (1998) - short story by Nancy Kress
• Maneki Neko - (1998) - short story by Bruce Sterling

Experience New Realms

Acclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell returns with this fifth annual collection of the year's most imaginative, entertaining, and mind-expanding science fiction.

Here are works from some of today's most acclaimed authors, as well as visionary new talents, that will introduce you to new ideas, offer unusual perspectives, and take you to places beyond your wildest imaginings.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (2000) - essay by David G. Hartwell
• Everywhere - (1999) - shortstory by Geoff Ryman
• Evolution Never Sleeps - (1999) - shortstory by Elisabeth Malartre
• Sexual Dimorphism - (1999) - shortstory by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Game of the Century - (1999) - novelette by Robert Reed
• Secrets of the Alien Reliquary - (1998) - poem by Michael Bishop
• Kinds of Strangers - (1999) - novelette by Sarah Zettel
• Visit the Sins - (1999) - shortstory by Cory Doctorow
• Border Guards - (1999) - novelette by Greg Egan
• macs - (1999) - shortstory by Terry Bisson
• Written in Blood - (1999) - shortstory by Chris Lawson
• Has Anybody Seen Junie Moon? - (1999) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• The Blue Planet - (1999) - shortstory by Robert J. Sawyer
• Lifework - (1999) - shortstory by Mary Soon Lee
• Rosetta Stone - (2000) - shortstory by Fred Lerner
• An Apollo Asteroid - (1999) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• 100 Candles - (1999) - shortstory by Curt Wohleber
• Democritus' Violin - (1999) - shortstory by G. David Nordley
• Fossil Games - (1999) - novelette by Tom Purdom
• Valour - (1999) - shortstory by Chris Beckett
• Huddle - (1999) - novelette by Stephen Baxter
• Ashes and Tombstones - (1999) - shortstory by Brian Stableford
• Ancient Engines - (1999) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
• Freckled Figure - (1992) - shortstory by Hiroe Suga
• Shiva - (1999) - shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg
• The Queen of Erewhon - (1999) - novelette by Lucy Sussex

Get Ready To Expand Your Mind...

Acclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell is back with the sixth annual collection of the year's most impressive, thought-provoking, and just plain great science fiction.

Year's Best SF 6 includes contributions from the greatest stars of the field as well as remarkable newcomers -- galaxies and into unexplored territory deep within your own soul.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (2001) - essay by David G. Hartwell
• Reef - (2000) - novelette by Paul J. McAuley
• Reality Check - (2000) - short story by David Brin
• The Millennium Express - (2000) - short story by Robert Silverberg
• Patient Zero - (2000) - short story by Tananarive Due
• The Oort Crowd - (2000) - short story by Ken MacLeod
• The Thing About Benny - (2000) - short story by M. Shayne Bell
• The Last Supper - (2000) - short story by Brian Stableford
• Tuberculosis Bacteria Join UN - (2000) - short story by Joan Slonczewski
• Our Mortal Span - (2000) - short story by Howard Waldrop
• Different Kinds of Darkness - (2000) - short story by David Langford
• New Ice Age, or Just Cold Feet? - (2000) - short story by Norman Spinrad
• The Devotee - (2000) - novelette by Stephen Dedman
• The Marriage of Sky & Sea - (2000) - short story by Chris Beckett
• In the Days of the Comet - (2000) - short story by John M. Ford
• The Birthday of the World - (2000) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Oracle - (2000) - novella by Greg Egan
• To Cuddle Amy - (2000) - short story by Nancy Kress
• Steppenpferd - (2000) - short story by Brian W. Aldiss
• Sheena 5 - (2000) - short story by Stephen Baxter
• The Fire Eggs - (2000) - short story by Darrell Schweitzer
• The New Horla - (2000) - short story by Robert Sheckley
• Madame Bovary, C'est Moi - (2000) - short story by Dan Simmons
• Grandma's Jumpman - (2000) - short story by Robert Reed
• Bordeaux Mixture - (2000) - short story by Henry Gee
• The Dryad's Wedding - (2000) - novelette by Robert Charles Wilson
• Built Upon the Sands of Time - (2000) - short story by Michael F. Flynn
• Seventy-Two Letters - (2000) - novella by Ted Chiang

Once again, the year's finest flights of speculative imagination are gathered in one extraordinary volume, compiled by acclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell. From some of the most renowned visionaries of contemporary SF -- as well as new writers who are already making an indelible mark -- comes an all-new compendium of unparalleled tales of the possible that will enthrall, astonish, terrify, and elate. Stories of strange worlds and mind-boggling futures, of awesome discoveries and apocalyptic disasters, of universes light years distant and deep within the human consciousness, are collected here as SF's brightest lights shine more radiantly than ever before.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (2002) - essay by Kathryn Cramer and David G. Hartwell
• Computer Virus - (2001) - novelette by Nancy Kress
• Charlie's Angels - (2001) - shortstory by Terry Bisson
• The Measure of All Things - (2001) - novelette by Richard Chwedyk
• Russian Vine - (2001) - shortstory by Simon Ings
• Under's Game - (2001) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
• A Matter of Mathematics - (2001) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• Creative Destruction - (2001) - novelette by Edward M. Lerner
• Resurrection - (2001) - shortstory by David Morrell
• The Cat's Pajamas - (2001) - novelette by James Morrow
• The Dog Said Bow-Wow - (2001) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
• The Building - (2001) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Grey Earth - (2001) - shortstory by Stephen Baxter
• The Lagan Fishers - (2001) - shortstory by Terry Dowling
• In Xanadu - (2001) - shortstory by Thomas M. Disch
• The Go-Between - (2001) - novelette by Lisa Goldstein
• Viewpoint - (2001) - novelette by Gene Wolfe
• Anomalies - (2001) - shortstory by Gregory Benford
• Glacial - (2001) - novella by Alastair Reynolds
• Undone - (2001) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly

Brave New Worlds To Explore and Conquer

The astonishingly possible is once again showcased in a breathtaking volume of the best short form SF the past year had to offer. Contributed by some of the most revered and exciting voices in the genre -- and compiled by acclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell -- these stories of wonder and terror, astounding technologies and miraculous discovery, stretch the imagination into realms and universes never dreamed of before. Each tale is a dazzling gem, rocketing readers across light years and into unknown dimensions -- exploring the intricate cultures of alien races and the strange, secret workings of the human mind. And together they form an unparalleled whole -- a collection of luminous visions that shines more brightly than a newborn sun.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (2003) - essay by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
• In Paradise - (2002) - short story by Bruce Sterling
• Slow Life - (2002) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
• Knapsack Poems - (2002) - short story by Eleanor Arnason
• At Dorado - (2002) - short story by Geoffrey A. Landis
• Coelacanths - (2002) - novelette by Robert Reed
• Flight Correction - (2002) - short story by Ken Wharton
• Shoes - (2002) - short story by Robert Sheckley
• The Diamond Drill - (2002) - short story by Charles Sheffield
• The Seasons of the Ansarac - (2002) - short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• A Few Kind Words for A. E. Van Vogt - (2002) - poem by Richard Chwedyk
• Halo - (2002) - novelette by Charles Stross
• I Saw the Light - (2002) - short story by Terry Bisson
• A Slow Day at the Gallery - (2002) - short story by A. M. Dellamonica
• Ailoura - (2002) - novelette by Paul Di Filippo
• The Names of All the Spirits - (2002) - short story by J. R. Dunn
• Grandma - (2002) - short story by Carol Emshwiller
• Snow in the Desert - (2002) - novelette by Neal Asher
• Singleton - (2002) - novella by Greg Egan
• Geropods - (2002) - short story by Robert Onopa
• Afterlife - (2002) - short story by Jack Williamson
• Shields of Mars - (2002) - short story by Gene Wolfe
• Patent Infringement - (2002) - short story by Nancy Kress
• Lost Sorceress of the Silent Citadel - (2002) - novelette by Michael Moorcock

The world as we will know it is far different from the future once predicted in simpler times. For this newest collection of the finest short form SF to appear in print over the preceding year, acclaimed editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer have gathered remarkable works that reflect a new sensibility. Courageous and diverse stories from some of the finest authors in the field grace this amazing volume -- adventures and discoveries, parables and warnings, carrying those eager to fly to far ends of a vast, ever-shifting universe of alien worlds, strange cultures, and mind-bending technologies. Tomorrow has never been as spellbinding, terrifying, or transforming as it is here, today, in these extraordinary pages. Hang on!

Contents:

• Introduction (Year's Best SF 9) - (2004) - essay by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
• Amnesty - (2003) - novelette by Octavia E. Butler
• Birth Days - (2003) - short story by Geoff Ryman
• The Waters of Meribah - (2003) - short story by Tony Ballantyne
• Ej-Es - (2003) - short story by Nancy Kress
• Four Short Novels - (2001) - short story by Joe Haldeman
• Rogue Farm - (2003) - short story by Charles Stross
• The Violet's Embryos - (2003) - novelette by Angélica Gorodischer (trans. of Los embriones del violeta 1973)
• Coyote at the End of History - (2003) - short story by Michael Swanwick
• In Fading Suns and Dying Moons - (2003) - novelette by John Varley
• Castaway - (2003) - short story by Gene Wolfe
• The Hydrogen Wall - (2001) - novelette by Gregory Benford
• The Day We Went Through the Transition - (1998) - short story by Ricard de la Casa and Pedro Jorge Romero (trans. of Ed día que hicimos la Transición 1997)
• Nimby and the Dimension Hoppers - (2003) - short story by Cory Doctorow
• Night of Time - (2003) - short story by Robert Reed
• A Night on the Barbary Coast - (2003) - short story by Kage Baker
• Annuity Clinic - (2003) - short story by Nigel Brown
• The Madwoman of Shuttlefield - (2003) - novelette by Allen Steele
• Bread and Bombs - (2003) - short story by M. Rickert
• The Great Game - (2003) - short story by Stephen Baxter
• The Albertine Notes - (2003) - novella by Rick Moody

A banner year for speculative fiction has yielded a crop of superb short form SF. Now the very best to appear over the past twelve months has been amassed into one extraordinary volume by acclaimed editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, offering bold visions of days to come that are bright, triumphant, breathtaking, and strikingly unique. Once more, celebrated masters of the field join with exciting new voices to sing of explorations and invasions, grand technological accomplishments, amazing flights into the unknown, horrors and miracles, and the human condition.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (2005) - essay by Kathryn Cramer and David G. Hartwell
• Sergeant Chip - (2004) - novella by Bradley Denton
• The First Commandment - (2004) - shortstory by Gregory Benford
• Burning Day - (2003) - novelette by Glenn Grant
• Scout's Honor - (2004) - shortstory by Terry Bisson
• Venus Flowers at Night - (2004) - novella by Pamela Sargent
• Pulp Cover - (2004) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• The Algorithms for Love - (2004) - shortstory by Ken Liu
• Glinky - (2004) - shortstory by Ray Vukcevich
• The Red City - (2004) - novelette by Janeen Webb
• Act of God - (2004) - shortstory by Jack McDevitt
• Wealth - (2004) - shortstory by Robert Reed
• Mastermindless - (2004) - novelette by Matthew Hughes
• Time, as It Evaporates... - (2004) - shortstory by Jean-Claude Dunyach (trans. of Le temps, en s'évaporant 1986)
• The Battle of York - (2004) - novelette by James Stoddard
• Loosestrife - (2004) - shortstory by Liz Williams
• The Dark Side of Town - (2004) - shortstory by James Patrick Kelly
• Invisible Kingdoms - (2004) - shortstory by Steven Utley
• The Cascade - (2004) - shortstory by Sean McMullen
• Pervert - (2004) - shortstory by Charles Coleman Finlay
• The Risk-Taking Gene as Expressed in Some Asian Subjects - (2004) - novelette by Steve Tomasula
• Strood - (2004) - shortstory by Neal Asher
• The Eckener Alternative - (2004) - shortstory by James L. Cambias
• Savant Songs - (2004) - shortstory by Brenda Cooper

This is the best short form science fiction of 2005, selected by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, two of the most respected editors in the field. The short story is one of the most vibrant and exciting areas in science fiction today. It is where the hot new authors emerge and where the beloved giants of the field continue to publish. Now, building on the success of the first nine volumes, Eos will once again present a collection of the best stories of the year in mass market. Here, selected and compiled by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, two of the most respected editors in the field, are stories with visions of tomorrow and yesterday, of the strange and the familiar, of the unknown and the unknowable. With stories from an all-star team of science fiction authors, "Year's Best Sf 11" is an indispensable guide for every science fiction fan.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (2006) - essay by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
• New Hope for the Dead - (2005) - shortstory by David Langford
• Deus Ex Homine - (2005) - shortstory by Hannu Rajaniemi
• When the Great Days Came - (2005) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois
• Second Person, Present Tense - (2005) - novelette by Daryl Gregory
• Dreadnought - (2005) - shortstory by Justina Robson
• A Case of Consilience - (2005) - shortstory by Ken MacLeod
• Toy Planes - (2005) - shortstory by Tobias S. Buckell
• Mason's Rats - (1992) - shortstory by Neal Asher
• A Modest Proposal - (2005) - shortstory by Vonda N. McIntyre
• Guadalupe and Hieronymus Bosch - (2005) - shortstory by Rudy Rucker
• The Forever Kitten - (2005) - shortstory by Peter F. Hamilton
• City of Reason - (2005) - novelette by Matthew Jarpe
• Ivory Tower - (2005) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
• Sheila - (2005) - shortstory by Lauren McLaughlin
• Rats of the System - (2005) - shortstory by Paul J. McAuley
• I Love Liver: A Romance - (2005) - shortstory by Larissa Lai
• The Edge of Nowhere - (2005) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• What's Expected of Us - (2005) - shortstory by Ted Chiang
• Girls and Boys, Come Out to Play - (2005) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
• Lakes of Light - (2005) - novelette by Stephen Baxter
• The Albian Message - (2005) - shortstory by Oliver Morton
• Bright Red Star - (2005) - shortstory by Bud Sparhawk
• Third Day Lights - (2005) - novelette by Alaya Dawn Johnson
• RAM Shift Phase 2 - (2005) - shortstory by Greg Bear
• On the Brane - (2004) - novelette by Gregory Benford
• Oxygen Rising - (2005) - novelette by R. Garcia y Robertson
• And Future King ... - (2005) - shortstory by Adam Roberts
• Beyond the Aquila Rift - (2005) - novelette by Alastair Reynolds
• Angel of Light - (2005) - shortstory by Joe Haldeman
• Ikiryoh - (2005) - shortstory by Liz Williams
• I, Robot - (2005) - novelette by Cory Doctorow

A banner year for bold, provocative, brilliantly inventive science fiction has produced some of the most enthrallingly original short sf since the genre's conception. In their twelfth remarkable collection of the very best of the last twelve months, award-winning editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer present amazing stories of galaxy-shaking events, alien contact, utopian science, and technology run amok: tales that celebrate the continually evolving literary artistry of some of the form's finest, most respected practitioners... while showcasing the magnificent talents of the science fiction superstars of the near future.

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments - essay by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
• Introduction - essay by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
• Nano Comes to Clifford Falls - (2006) - shortstory by Nancy Kress
• Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? - (2006) - shortstory by Terry Bisson
• When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth - (2006) - novelette by Cory Doctorow
• Just Do It! - (2006) - shortstory by Heather Lindsley
• Counterfactual - (2006) - novelette by Gardner Dozois
• Moon Does Run - (2006) - shortstory by Edd Vick
• Home Movies - (2006) - novelette by Mary Rosenblum
• Chu and the Nants - (2006) - shortstory by Rudy Rucker
• Silence in Florence - (2006) - shortstory by Ian Creasey
• The Women of Our Occupation - (2006) - shortstory by Kameron Hurley
• This Is the Ice Age - (2006) - shortstory by Claude Lalumière
• Speak, Geek - (2006) - shortstory by Eileen Gunn
• Expedition, with Recipes - (2006) - shortstory by Joe Haldeman
• The Age of Ice - (2006) - shortstory by Liz Williams
• Dawn, and Sunset, and the Colours of the Earth - (2006) - novella by Michael F. Flynn
• Applied Mathematical Theology - (2006) - shortstory by Gregory Benford
• Quill - (2006) - novelette by Carol Emshwiller
• Tiger, Burning - (2006) - novelette by Alastair Reynolds
• Dead Men Walking - (2006) - novelette by Paul J. McAuley
• Damascus - (2006) - novelette by Daryl Gregory
• Tin Marsh - (2006) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
• Taking Good Care of Myself - (2006) - shortstory by Ian R. MacLeod
• The Lowland Expedition - (2006) - shortstory by Stephen Baxter
• Heisenberg Elementary - (2006) - shortstory by Wil McCarthy
• Rwanda - (2006) - shortstory by Robert Reed
• Preemption - (2006) - shortstory by Charlie Rosenkrantz

The thirteenth annual collection of the previous year's finest short-form sf is at hand. Once again, award-winning editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer have gathered together a stunning array of science fiction that spans a veritable universe of astonishing visions and bold ideas. Hitherto unexplored galaxies of the mind are courageously traversed by some of the most exciting new talents in the field--while well-established masters rocket to remarkable new heights of artistry and originality. The stars are closer and more breathtaking than ever before--and a miraculous future now rests in your hands--within the pages of Year's Best SF 13.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (2008) - essay by Kathryn Cramer and David G. Hartwell
• Baby Doll - (2007) - novelette by Johanna Sinisalo (trans. of Baby Doll 2002)
• Aristotle OS - (2007) - short story by Tony Ballantyne
• The Last American - (2007) - short story by John Kessel
• Memorare - (2007) - novella by Gene Wolfe
• Plotters and Shooters - (2007) - novelette by Kage Baker
• Repeating the Past - (2007) - short story by Peter Watts
• No More Stories - (2007) - short story by Stephen Baxter
• They Came from the Future - (2007) - poem by Robyn Hitchcock
• The Tomb Wife - (2007) - short story by Gwyneth Jones
• An Evening's Honest Peril - (2007) - novelette by Marc Laidlaw
• End Game - (2007) - short story by Nancy Kress
• Induction - (2007) - short story by Greg Egan
• A Blue and Cloudless Sky - (2007) - novelette by Bernhard Ribbeck (trans. of En blå og skyfri himmel 1996)
• Reasons not to Publish - (2007) - short story by Gregory Benford
• Objective Impermeability in a Closed System - (2007) - short story by William Shunn
• Always - (2007) - short story by Karen Joy Fowler
• Who's Afraid of Wolf 359? - (2007) - short story by Ken MacLeod
• Artifice and Intelligence - (2007) - short story by Tim Pratt
• Pirates of the Somali Coast - (2007) - short story by Terry Bisson
• Sanjeev and Robotwallah - (2007) - short story by Ian McDonald
• Third Person - (2007) - short story by Tony Ballantyne
• The Bridge - (2007) - novelette by Kathleen Ann Goonan
• As You Know, Bob - (2007) - short story by John G. Hemry
• The Lustration - (2007) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
• How Music Begins - (2007) - novelette by James Van Pelt

Last year's best short-form SF--selected by acclaimed, award-winning editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer--offers stunning new extrapolations on what awaits humankind beyond the next dawn. The art of the story is explored boldly and provocatively in this powerful new collection of Year's Best speculative fiction.

Table of Contents:

• Arkfall - (2008) - novella by Carolyn Ives Gilman
• Orange - (2008) - short story by Neil Gaiman
• Memory Dog - (2008) - novelette by Kathleen Ann Goonan
• Pump Six - (2008) - novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Boojum - (2008) - short story by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
• Exhalation - (2008) - short story by Ted Chiang
• Traitor - (2008) - short story by M. Rickert
• The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away - (2008) - novelette by Cory Doctorow
• Oblivion: A Journey - (2008) - short story by Vandana Singh
• The House Left Empty - (2008) - short story by Robert Reed
• The Scarecrow's Boy - (2008) - short story by Michael Swanwick
• N-Words - (2008) - short story by Ted Kosmatka
• Fury - (2008) - novelette by Alastair Reynolds
• Cheats - (2008) - novelette by Ann Halam
• The Ships Like Clouds, Risen by Their Rain - (2008) - novelette by Jason Sanford
• The Egg Man - (2008) - novelette by Mary Rosenblum
• Glass - (2008) - shortfiction by Daryl Gregory
• Fixing Hanover - (2008) - novelette by Jeff VanderMeer
• Message Found in a Gravity Wave - (2008) - short story by Rudy Rucker
• Mitigation - (2008) - novelette by Tobias S. Buckell and Karl Schroeder
• Spiders - (2008) - short story by Sue Burke

An annual celebration of the finest short form science fiction of the past year, editors David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer's Year's Best science fiction anthologies are widely acclaimed and eagerly awaited--and Year's Best SF 15 lives up magnificently to its name! Featuring thrilling new tales by such speculative fiction luminaries as Stephen Baxter, Gene Wolfe, Nancy Kress, Geoff Ryman, Bruce Sterling, and a host of others, Year's Best SF 15 opens the door into a universe of wonders.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
• Infinities - (2008) - novelette by Vandana Singh
• This Peaceable Land; or, The Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe - (2009) - novelette by Robert Charles Wilson
• The Unstrung Zither - (2009) - novelette by Yoon Ha Lee
• Black Swan - (2009) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
• Exegesis - (2009) - short story by Nancy Kress
• Erosion - (2009) - short story by Ian Creasey
• Collision - (2009) - short story by Gwyneth Jones
• Donovan Sent Us - (2009) - short story by Gene Wolfe
• The Calculus Plague - (2009) - short story by Marissa Lingen
• The Island - (2009) - novelette by Peter Watts
• One of Our Bastards is Missing - (2009) - novelette by Paul Cornell
• Lady of the White-Spired City - (2009) - short story by Sarah L. Edwards
• The Highway Code - (2009) - novelette by Brian Stableford
• On the Destruction of Copenhagen by the War-Machines of the Merfolk - (2009) - short story by Peter M. Ball
• The Fixation - (2009) - short story by Alastair Reynolds
• In Their Garden - (2009) - short story by Brenda Cooper
• Blocked - (2009) - short story by Geoff Ryman
• The Last Apostle - (2009) - short story by Michael Cassutt
• Another Life - (2009) - novelette by Charles Oberndorf
• The Consciousness Problem - (2009) - short story by Mary Robinette Kowal
• Tempest 43 - (2009) - novelette by Stephen Baxter
• Bespoke - (2009) - short story by Genevieve Valentine
• Attitude Adjustment - (2009) - short story by Eric James Stone
• Edison's Frankenstein - (2009) - novelette by Chris Roberson

A dazzling new collection of the finest short form science fiction from the previous year, compiled once again by World Fantasy and Hugo Award-winning editors by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, Year's Best SF 16 features some of the brightest stars of the genre--including Gregory Benford, Cory Doctrow, Joe Haldeman, and Michael Swanwick. From space travel to time travel to journeys through the mind, brilliant and original speculative fiction is alive and well and magnificently celebrated in this splendid compendium of plausible wonders.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (2011) - essay by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
• Sleeping Dogs - (2010) - short story by Joe Haldeman
• Castoff World - (2010) - shortfiction by Kay Kenyon
• Petopia - (2010) - short story by Benjamin Crowell
• Futures in the Memories Market - (2010) - short story by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• A Preliminary Assessment of the Drake Equation, Being an Excerpt from the Memoirs of Star Captain Y.-T. Lee - (2010) - shortfiction by Vernor Vinge
• About It - (2010) - short story by Terry Bisson
• Somadeva: A Sky River Sutra - (2010) - short story by Vandana Singh
• Under the Moons of Venus - (2010) - short story by Damien Broderick
• All the Love in the World - (2010) - short story by Cat Sparks
• At Budokan - (2010) - novelette by Alastair Reynolds
• Graffiti in the Library of Babel - (2010) - short story by David Langford
• Steadfast Castle - (2010) - short story by Michael Swanwick
• How to Become a Mars Overlord - (2010) - short story by Catherynne M. Valente
• To Hie from Far Cilenia - (2008) - novella by Karl Schroeder
• The Hebras and the Demons and the Damned - (2010) - short story by Brenda Cooper
• Penumbra - (2010) - short story by Gregory Benford
• The Good Hand - (2010) - novelette by Robert Reed
• The Cassandra Project - (2010) - short story by Jack McDevitt
• Jackie's-Boy - (2010) - novella by Steven Popkes
• Eight Miles - (2010) - novelette by Sean McMullen
• Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance: The Parke Family Scrapbook Number IV - (2010) - novella by Paul Park

The Year's Best SF 17 is a showcase of the best short form science fiction of 2011, selected by World Fantasy Award winners David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, two of the most respected editors in the field of speculative fiction. Like the previous sixteen volumes of the series that has been called "the finest modern science fiction writing," The Year's Best SF 17 features stories from some of the brightest lights in sf--including Gregory Benford (Beyond Human), Nancy Kress (Beggars in Spain), James Morrow (The Philosopher's Apprentice), Michael Swanwick (The Dragons of Babel) and Neil Gaiman (American Gods) --as well as electrifying short stories from exciting newcomers.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
• The Best Science Fiction of the Year Three - (2011) - shortfiction by Ken MacLeod
• Dolly - (2011) - short story by Elizabeth Bear
• Altogether Elsewhere, Vast Herds of Reindeer - (2011) - short story by Ken Liu
• Tethered - (2011) - shortfiction by Mercurio D. Rivera
• Wahala - (2011) - novelette by Nnedi Okorafor
• Laika's Ghost - (2010) - novelette by Karl Schroeder
• Ragnarok - (2011) - poem by Paul Park
• Six Months, Three Days - (2011) - novelette by Charlie Jane Anders
• "And Weep Like Alexander" - (2011) - shortfiction by Neil Gaiman
• The Middle of Somewhere - (2011) - novelette by Judith Moffett
• Mercies - (2010) - novelette by Gregory Benford
• The Education of Junior Number 12 - (2011) - shortfiction by Madeline Ashby
• Our Candidate - (2011) - short story by Robert Reed
• Thick Water - (2011) - shortfiction by Karen Heuler
• The War Artist - (2011) - short story by Tony Ballantyne
• The Master of the Aviary - (2011) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
• Home Sweet Bi'ome - (2011) - novelette by Pat MacEwen
• For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I'll Not Be Back Again - (2011) - short story by Michael Swanwick
• The Ki-anna - (2010) - novelette by Gwyneth Jones
• Eliot Wrote - (2011) - short story by Nancy Kress
• The Nearest Thing - (2011) - novelette by Genevieve Valentine
• A Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel - (2011) - short story by Yoon Ha Lee
• The Ice Owl - (2011) - novella by Carolyn Ives Gilman

Once again, the finest SF short stories of the year have been collected in a single volume.

With Year's Best SF 18, acclaimed, award-winning editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell demonstrates the amazing depth and power of contemporary speculative fiction, showcasing astonishing short stories from some of science fiction's most respected names as well as exciting new writers to watch. In this anthology, prepare to travel light years from the ordinary into a tomorrow at once breathtaking, frightening, and possible with some of the greatest tales of wonder published in 2012.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by David G. Hartwell
• Old Paint - (2012) - novelette by Megan Lindholm
• The Ghosts of Christmas - (2012) - novelette by Paul Cornell
• Prayer - (2012) - short story by Robert Reed
• The Battle of Candle Arc - (2012) - novelette by Yoon Ha Lee
• Dormanna - (2012) - short story by Gene Wolfe
• Holmes Sherlock: A Hwarhath Mystery - (2012) - short story by Eleanor Arnason
• Electrica - (2012) - novelette by Sean McMullen
• Perfect Day - (2012) - short story by C. S. Friedman
• Swift as a Dream and Fleeting as a Sigh - (2012) - short story by John Barnes
• Liberty's Daughter - (2012) - novelette by Naomi Kritzer
• Weep for Day - (2012) - novelette by Indrapramit Das
• In Plain Sight - (2012) - short story by Pat Cadigan
• Application - (2012) - short story by Lewis Shiner
• A Love Supreme - (2012) - short story by Kathleen Ann Goonan
• Close Encounters - (2012) - novelette by Andy Duncan
• Two Sisters in Exile - (2012) - short story by Aliette de Bodard
• The Waves - (2012) - novelette by Ken Liu
• The North Revena Ladies Literary Society - (2012) - short story by Catherine H. Shaffer
• Antarctica Starts Here - (2012) - short story by Paul J. McAuley
• Bricks, Sticks, Straw - (2012) - short story by Gwyneth Jones
• The Sigma Structure Symphony - (2012) - novelette by Gregory Benford
• Glass Future - (2012) - short story by Deborah Walker
• If Only... - (2012) - short story by Tony Ballantyne
• The Woman Who Shook the World Tree - short story by Michael Swanwick
• Nahiku West - (2012) - novelette by Linda Nagata
• Houseflies - (2012) - short story by Joe Pitkin
• Branches on My Back, Sparrows in My Ear - (2012) - short story by Nikki J. North
• The Peak of Eternal Light - (2012) - novelette by Bruce Sterling