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• ix • Introduction (The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 12) • (1963) • essay by Avram Davidson
• 1 • Test • (1962) • short story by Theodore L. Thomas
• 6 • Please Stand By • [Max Kearny] • (1962) • short story by Ron Goulart
• 31 • Who's in Charge Here? • (1962) • short story by James Blish
• 37 • Three for the Stars • (1962) • short story by Joseph Dickinson
• 50 • When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed • (1962) • short story by Vance Aandahl
• 73 • Landscape with Sphinxes • (1962) • short story by Karen Anderson
• 77 • My Dear Emily • (1962) • short story by Joanna Russ
• 101 • The Gumdrop King • (1962) • short story by Will Stanton
• 108 • The Golden Horn • [Tales of a Darkening World] • (1962) • novelette by Edgar Pangborn
• 148 • The Singular Events Which Occurred in the Hovel on the Alley Off of Eye Street • (1962) • short story by Avram Davidson
• 156 • A Kind of Artistry • (1962) • novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
• 184 • Two's a Crowd • (1962) • short story by Sasha Gilien
• 194 • The Man Without a Planet • (1962) • short story by Kate Wilhelm
• 202 • The Garden of Time • (1962) • short story by J. G. Ballard
• 211 • Hop-Friend • (1962) • short story by Terry Carr