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• 7 • Introduction (The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 8) • essay by Harry Harrison (variant of Editorial (Best SF: 1974) 1975) [as by Harry Harrison and Bruce McAllister]
• 12 • After King Kong Fell • [Wold Newton] • (1973) • short story by
  Philip José Farmer^?Philip Jose Farmer
• 28 • When Petals Fall • (1973) • novelette by Sydney J. Van Scyoc
• 47 • Paleontology: An Experimental Science • (1974) • short story by Robert R. Olsen
• 57 • The Women Men Don't See • (1973) • novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• 89 • Listen with Big Brother • (1974) • short story by Brian W. Aldiss (variant of Wired for Sound)
• 95 • The Rise of Airstrip One • (1974) • short story by Clive James
• 96 • Owing to Circumstances Beyond Our Control 1984 Has Been Unavoidably Detained... • (1974) • short story by Alan Coren
• 102 • Lost and Found • (1974) • short story by Thomas Baum
• 118 • The Four-Hour Fugue • (1974) • short story by Alfred Bester
• 138 • The Scream • (1974) • novelette by Kate Wilhelm
• 166 • The Executioner's Beautiful Daughter • (1974) • short story by Angela Carter
• 174 • After Weightlessness • (1974) • poem by Lawrence Sail
• 175 • A Picture by Klee • (1974) • poem by Lawrence Sail
• 175 • Backward, Into Beasts Evolving ... • poem by Dick Allen
• 176 • Science Fiction Story • (1973) • poem by Duane Ackerson
• 177 • DNA • (1974) • poem by Duane Ackerson
• 178 • Songs of War • (1974) • novelette by Kit Reed
• 219 • Time Deer • (1974) • short story by Craig Strete
• 226 • A Typical Day • (1974) • short story by Doris Piserchia
• 238 • Programmed Love Story • (1974) • short story by Ian Watson
• 244 • Afterword: The Galaxy Begins at Home (Best SF: 1974) • (1975) • essay by Brian W. Aldiss