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•  World's Best Science Fiction: 1971 • (1970) • interior artwork by Jack Gaughan
• 7 • Introduction (World's Best Science Fiction: 1971) • essay by Terry Carr and Donald A. Wollheim
• 11 • Slow Sculpture • (1970) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 34 • Bird in the Hand • [Svetz] • (1970) • novelette by Larry Niven
• 55 • Ishmael in Love • (1970) • short story by Robert Silverberg
• 69 • Invasion of Privacy • (1970) • novelette by Bob Shaw
• 93 • Waterclap • (1970) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
• 127 • Continued on Next Rock • (1970) • novelette by R. A. Lafferty
• 152 • The Thing in the Stone • (1970) • novelette by Clifford D. Simak
• 198 • Nobody Lives on Burton Street • (1970) • short story by Gregory Benford [as by Greg Benford]
• 207 • Whatever Became of the McGowans? • (1970) • novelette by Michael G. Coney
• 228 • The Last Time Around • (1968) • novelette by Arthur Sellings
• 249 • Greyspun's Gift • (1970) • short story by Neal Barrett, Jr.
• 263 • The Shaker Revival • (1970) • novelette by Gerald Jonas
• 293 • Dear Aunt Annie • (1970) • novelette by Gordon Eklund
• 323 • Confessions • [Jose Silvera] • (1970) • novelette by Ron Goulart
• 342 • Gone Are the Lupo • (1970) • short story by H. B. Hickey