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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