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• 2 • When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer • (1865) • poem by Walt Whitman
• 2 • Introduction (The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: Eleventh Series) • (1962) • essay by Robert P. Mills
• 7 • The Sources of the Nile • (1961) • novelette by Avram Davidson
• 40 • Somebody to Play With • (1961) • short story by Jay Williams
• 53 • Softly While You're Sleeping • (1961) • short fiction by Evelyn E. Smith
• 71 • The Machine That Won the War • [Multivac] • (1961) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 78 • Go for Baroque • (1961) • short story by Jody Scott
• 95 • Time Lag • (1961) • novelette by Poul Anderson
• 134 • George • (1961) • short story by John Anthony West
• 153 • Shotgun Cure • (1961) • short story by Clifford D. Simak
• 172 • The One Who Returns • (1961) • short story by John Berry
• 179 • The Captivity • (1961) • short story by Charles G. Finney
• 189 • Alpha Ralpha Boulevard • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1961) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
• 222 • Effigy • (1961) • poem by Rosser Reeves
• 224 • E=MC² • (1961) • poem by Rosser Reeves
• 225 • Harrison Bergeron • (1961) • short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• 233 • The Haunted Village • (1961) • novelette by Gordon R. Dickson