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A mutant baby goes on a rampage through Central Park. An immigrant reveals secrets in the folds of a perfect gift. Lucky Cats extend their virtual paws to salute a generous revolution. The Internet invades a third-world village.

The premier speculative-fiction magazine Fantasy & Science Fiction continues to discover and showcase many of the most inventive authors writing in any genre. Now drawing even more deeply upon F&SF's impressive history, this extraordinary companion anthology expands upon sixty-five years' worth of top-notch storytelling. The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Volume Two is a star-studded tribute to the continuing vision of F&SF.

Table of Contents

• Foreword - essay by Gordon Van Gelder
• Introduction - essay by Michael Dirda
• The Third Level - (1950) - shortstory by Jack Finney
• The Cosmic Charge Account - (1956) - novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
• The Country of the Kind - (1956) - shortstory by Damon Knight
• The Anything Box - (1956) - shortstory by Zenna Henderson
• The Prize of Peril - (1958) - shortstory by Robert Sheckley
• "—All You Zombies—" - (1959) - shortstory by Robert A. Heinlein
• A Kind of Artistry - (1962) - novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
• Green Magic - (1963) - shortstory by Jack Vance
• Narrow Valley - (1966) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• Sundance - (1969) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• The Attack of the Giant Baby - (1975) - shortstory by Kit Reed
• The Hundredth Dove - (1977) - shortstory by Jane Yolen
• Jeffty Is Five - (1977) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Salvador - (1984) - shortstory by Lucius Shepard
• The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything - (1984) - shortstory by George Alec Effinger
• Rat - (1986) - shortstory by James Patrick Kelly
• The Friendship Light - (1989) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• The Bone Woman - (1992) - shortstory by Charles de Lint
• The Lincoln Train - (1995) - shortstory by Maureen F. McHugh
• Maneki Neko - (1998) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
• Winemaster - (1999) - novelette by Robert Reed
• Suicide Coast - (1999) - shortstory by M. John Harrison
• Have Not Have - (2001) - novelette by Geoff Ryman
• The People of Sand and Slag - (2004) - novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Echo - (2005) - shortstory by Elizabeth Hand
• The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates - (2008) - shortstory by Stephen King
• The Paper Menagerie - (2011) - shortstory by Ken Liu

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