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Contents:

• Founding Father - (1957)
• Immigrant - (1954)
• New Folks' Home - (1963)
• Crying Jag - (1960)
• All the Traps of Earth - (1960)
• Lulu - (1957)
• Neighbor - (1954)

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Frederik Pohl
• Inconstant Moon - (1971) - novelette by Larry Niven
• The Sunset, 2217 A. D. - novelette by Ryu Mitsuse
• Mother in the Sky With Diamonds - (1971) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Conversational Mode - (1972) - short story by Grahame Leman
• Sheltering Dream - (1972) - short story by Doris Piserchia
• At the Mouse Circus - (1971) - short story by Harlan Ellison
• Silent in Gehenna - (1971) - short story by Harlan Ellison
• Too Many People - (1971) - novelette by H. H. Hollis
• The Easy Way Out - (1971) - novelette by John Brunner
• The Gold at the Starbow's End - (1972) - novella by Frederik Pohl

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Forrest J. AckermanA Thing of Beauty - (1973) - short story by Norman Spinrad
• What We Learned from This Morning's Newspaper - (1972) - short story by Robert Silverberg
• Seventy Years of Decpop - (1972) - novella by Philip José Farmer
• The Shape of Science Fiction to Come - (1972) - essay by Frederik Pohl
• Getting Together - (1972) - short story by Milton A. Rothman
• By the Time I Get to Phoenix - (1972) - short story by Thomas N. Scortia
• Forever and Amen - (1972) - short story by Robert Bloch
• Ersatz Eternal - (1972) - short story by A. E. van Vogt
• The Merchants of Venus - (1972) - novella by Frederik Pohl

Award-winning anthologists Jane Yolen and Patrick Nielsen Hayden have combed through a year's worth of books and magazines and websites to find the most outstanding fantasy and science fiction stories of 2004--and collected them into a single volume aimed specifically at teens and young adults.

Many of today's most popular authors are represented here, including:
* Garth Nix, author of Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen, who presents an unforgettable tale of two swords, two daughters, and two endings....
* S. M. Stirling, author of Island in the Sea of Time, sends a likeable young barbarian across the Channel to Alba, for a confrontation with a wizard from faraway Nantucket that will change his life forever...
* David Gerrold, creator of "The Trouble with Tribbles," who takes you to a remote countryside surrounded by a mysterious darkness, whose secret has yet to be revealed...

Table of Contents:

• Preface - essay by Jane Yolen
• Blood Wolf - (2004) - novelette by S. M. Stirling
• The Faery Handbag - (2004) - novelette by Kelly Link
• Sleeping Dragons - (2004) - shortstory by Lynette Aspey
• Endings - (2004) - shortstory by Garth Nix
• Dancer in the Dark - (2004) - novelette by David Gerrold
• A Piece of Flesh - (2004) - novelette by Adam Stemple
• CATNYP - (2004) - novelette by Delia Sherman
• "They" - (1904) - novelette by Rudyard Kipling
• The Wings of Meister Wilhelm - (2004) - novelette by Theodora Goss
• Displaced Persons - (2004) - shortstory by Leah Bobet
• Sergeant Chip - (2004) - novella by Bradley Denton
• Honor Roll 2004: The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens - essay by uncredited