Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• vii • Introduction (The Best Science Fiction of the Year #3) • (1974) • essay by Terry Carr
• 1 • Something Up There Likes Me • (1973) • short story by Alfred Bester
• 27 • The World As Will and Wallpaper • (1973) • short story by R. A. Lafferty
• 45 • Breckenridge and the Continuum • (1973) • novelette by Robert Silverberg
• 79 • Rumfuddle • (1973) • novella by Jack Vance
• 143 • Tell Me All About Yourself • (1973) • short story by F. M. Busby
• 153 • The Deathbird • (1973) • novelette by Harlan Ellison
• 187 • Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand • [Snake] • (1973) • novelette by Vonda N. McIntyre
• 211 • The Death of Dr. Island • [Archipelago] • (1973) • novella by Gene Wolfe
• 273 • The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas • (1973) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 281 • Sketches Among the Ruins of My Mind • (1973) • novelette by Philip José Farmer
• 333 • The Women Men Don't See • (1973) • novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• 367 • Honorable Mentions - 1973 • (1974) • essay by Terry Carr