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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

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

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

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

Table of Contents

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

Contents:

• Headnotes (The Best from If, Volume I ) - essay by James R. Frenkel (variant of Headnotes (The Best from If, Volume 1)) [as by James Frenkel]
• 9 - The Reality Trip - (1970) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
• 32 - Troubleshooter - (1970) - short story by Michael G. Coney
• 49 - The Mind Bomb - (1969) - novelette by Frank Herbert
• 72 - The Last True God - (1969) - short story by Lester del Rey
• 81 - By the Falls - (1970) - short story by Harry Harrison
• 90 - SOS - (1970) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• 113 - The Right to Revolt - [Andrew Galt] - (1971) - short story by Keith Laumer
• 131 - The Right to Resist - [Andrew Galt] - (1971) - short story by Keith Laumer
• 149 - Waterclap - (1970) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• 185 - Habits of the Rigelian Nightfox - (1971) - short story by Ed Bianchi
• 203 - The Nightblooming Saurian - (1970) - short story by James Tiptree, Jr.
• 211 - Prez - (1970) - short story by Ron Goulart
• 228 - Occam's Scalpel - (1971) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon

Contents:

• 9 - Construction Shack - (1973) - short story by Clifford D. Simak
• 24 - Susie's Reality - (1973) - novelette by Bob Stickgold
• 57 - Mnarra Mobilis - (1973) - novelette by Sydney J. Van Scyoc
• 84 - Westwind - (1973) - short story by Gene Wolfe
• 93 - Death and Designation Among the Asadi - (1973) - novella by Michael Bishop
• 179 - Guest Editorial (Worlds of If, May/June 1974) - (1974) - essay by Frederik Pohl
• 185 - Wings Out of Shadow - [Berserker (Fred Saberhagen)] - (1974) - novelette by Fred Saberhagen
• 206 - Stranger in Paradise - (1974) - novelette by Isaac Asimov

Contents:

• 9 - Midnight by the Morphy Watch - (1974) - short story by Fritz Leiber
• 35 - Plaything - (1974) - short story by Larry Niven
• 43 - A Little Night Flying - (1974) - short story by Bob Shaw (variant of Dark Icarus)
• 61 - Half-Baked Publisher's Delight - (1974) - short story by Isaac Asimov and Jeffrey S. Hudson
• 69 - Mephisto and the Ion Explorer - (1974) - novelette by Colin Kapp
• 111 - Following Yonder Star - [(R)evolution] - (1974) - essay by Richard C. Hoagland
• 131 - Gut in Peril - (1974) - short story by Arsen Darnay
• 141 - Time Deer - (1974) - short story by Craig Strete
• 149 - The Alien Viewpoint (If, September-October 1974) - [The Alien Viewpoint (If)] - (1974) - essay by Richard E. Geis
• 163 - The Descent of Man - (1974) - short story by J. A. Lawrence
• 177 - Angel Fix - (1974) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr. [as by Raccoona Sheldon]
• 211 - Reading Room (If, November-December 1974) - [Reading Room] - (1974) - essay by Lester del Rey