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• 8 • Introduction (The 6th Annual of the Year's Best S-F) • (1961) • essay by Judith Merril
• 9 • Double, Double, Toil and Trouble • (1960) • short story by Holley Cantine
• 26 • The Never-Ending Penny • novelette by Bernard Wolfe (variant of The Never Ending Penny 1960)
• 41 • The Fellow Who Married the Maxill Girl • (1960) • novelette by Ward Moore
• 69 • Something Invented Me • (1960) • short story by R. C. Phelan
• 79 • A Sigh for Cybernetics • (1961) • poem by Felicia Lamport
• 80 •  Obvious! (cartoon) • (1960) • interior artwork by Michael Ffolkes
• 81 • I Remember Babylon • (1960) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 93 • The Lagging Profession • (1961) • essay by Theodore L. Thomas [as by Leonard Lockhard]
• 105 •  The Distortion (cartoon) • (1960) • interior artwork by Shel Silverstein
• 109 • Report on the Nature of the Lunar Surface • (1960) • short story by John Brunner
• 112 • J.G. (Excerpt from J.G. the Upright Ape) • (1960) • short fiction by Roger Price (1918-1990)
• 138 • Chief • (1960) • short story by Henry Slesar
• 139 • Psalm • (1960) • poem by Lester del Rey
• 140 • The Large Ant • (1960) • short story by Howard Fast
• 150 • A Rose by Other Name ... • (1960) • short story by Christopher Anvil (variant of A Rose by Other Name)
• 160 • Enchantment • (1960) • short story by Elizabeth Emmett
• 175 • Thiotimoline and the Space Age • [Thiotimoline • 3] • (1960) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 184 • Beach Scene • (1960) • short story by Marshall King
• 199 • Creature of the Snows • (1960) • short story by William Sambrot
• 211 • Abominable • (1960) • short story by Fredric Brown
• 214 • The Man on Top • (1951) • short story by Reginald Bretnor [as by R. Bretnor]
• 219 • David's Daddy • (1960) • short story by Rosel George Brown
• 231 •  The Thinkers (cartoon) • (1961) • interior artwork by Walt Kelly
• 233 • Something Bright • (1960) • short story by Zenna Henderson
• 250 • In the House, Another • (1960) • short story by Joseph Whitehill
• 254 • A Serious Search for Weird Worlds • (1960) • essay by Ray Bradbury
• 268 • Ed Lear Wasn't So Crazy! • (1960) • poem by Hilbert Schenck
• 269 •  Cartoon: Instructor • interior artwork by Thelwell
• 270 • The Brotherhood of Keepers • (1960) • novelette by Dean McLaughlin
• 323 • Hemingway in Space • [Authors in Space] • (1960) • short story by Kingsley Amis
• 329 • Mine Own Ways • (1960) • short story by Richard McKenna
• 346 • Old Hundredth • (1960) • short story by Brian W. Aldiss
• 359 • Radiation Blues • (1960) • poem by Theodore R. Cogswell
• 361 • Blowup Blues • (1960) • poem by Theodore R. Cogswell
• 363 • Ballad of the Shoshonu • (1961) • poem by Gordon R. Dickson
• 365 • How to Think a Science Fiction Story (excerpt) • (1961) • essay by G. Harry Stine
• 374 • The Year in S-F (The 6th Annual of the Year's Best S-F) • (1961) • essay by Judith Merril
• 378 • S-F Books: 1960 • (1961) • essay by Anthony Boucher
• 381 • Honorable Mentions (The 6th Annual of the Year's Best S-F) • (1961) • essay by Judith Merril