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Table of Contents

• In Exorcising Texas: An Introduction - essay by Harlan Ellison
• Back to the Stone Age - shortstory by Jake Saunders
• The Sweetwater Factor - shortstory by Tom Reamy
• Woman Waiting - novelette by Lisa Tuttle
• The Recent Semifinals - shortstory by Robert Lory
• From the Tower of Eridu - shortstory by T. R. Fehrenbach
• Ghost Seas - shortstory by Steven Utley
• Fiddle Ess - novelette by Glenn Lewis Gillette
• The Invasion of Dallas - shortstory by James Sallis
• Story of a Strange Relative - shortstory by Larry Holden
• The Migration - shortstory by Geo. W. Proctor
• Man-Made Self - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
• And Death Once Dead - shortstory by Joseph F. Pumilia
• Every Day in Every Way - novelette by H. H. Hollis
• Community Study - novelette by Chad Oliver
• The Talking - shortstory by Neal Barrett, Jr.
• Unsleeping Beauty and the Beast - shortstory by Howard Waldrop
• The Coming of Bast - poem by Robert E. Howard

Comprised of all the short fiction Nebula Award winners for 1966-1970 - the first five years of the award.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1981) - essay by Arthur C. Clarke
• "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman - (1965) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth - (1965) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
• The Saliva Tree - (1965) - novella by Brian W. Aldiss
• He Who Shapes - (1965) - novella by Roger Zelazny
• The Secret Place - (1966) - shortstory by Richard McKenna
• Call Him Lord - (1966) - novelette by Gordon R. Dickson
• The Last Castle - (1966) - novella by Jack Vance
• Aye, and Gomorrah... - (1967) - shortstory by Samuel R. Delany
• Gonna Roll the Bones - (1967) - novelette by Fritz Leiber
• Behold the Man - (1966) - novella by Michael Moorcock
• The Planners - (1968) - shortstory by Kate Wilhelm
• Mother to the World - (1968) - novelette by Richard Wilson
• Dragonrider - (1967) - novella by Anne McCaffrey
• Passengers - (1968) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones - (1968) - novelette by Samuel R. Delany
• A Boy and His Dog - (1969) - novella by Harlan Ellison

The Saga continues...

With their mothership in hiding, their ranks broken, the Visitors set a desperate plan in motion...

Barely escaping death from a Visitor ambush, resistance warrior Rick Hurley is rescued by Sheryl Lee Darcy and a band of Texas freedom fighters carrying vital drugs to the sick and wounded of their native state -- where the red dust toxin, once fatal to the lizard-like aliens, has lost its effect. The Visitors have placed a stranglehold on the Dallas-Fort Worth area, rounding up the terrified populace for cold storage aboard the Mother Ship. There the Texas resistance strike-and-hide guerrilla raids, aimed at the Visitors' processing centers, keep the inhuman enemy in confusion and disarray. But when Sheryl Lee is taken prisoner, it's Rick who plans a daring rescue, with the help of wild-man rancher Charlie Scoggins, striking at the heart of the enemy stronghold, across hundreds of miles of lizard-held terrain, at the deadly, desperate end...