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•  World's Best Science Fiction: 1971 • (1970) • interior artwork by Jack Gaughan
• vii • Introduction (World's Best Science Fiction: 1971) • (1971) • essay by Terry Carr and Donald A. Wollheim
• 1 • Slow Sculpture • (1970) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 26 • Bird in the Hand • [Svetz] • (1970) • novelette by Larry Niven
• 50 • Ishmael in Love • (1970) • short story by Robert Silverberg
• 65 • Invasion of Privacy • (1970) • novelette by Bob Shaw
• 91 • Waterclap • (1970) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
• 128 • Continued on Next Rock • (1970) • novelette by R. A. Lafferty
• 155 • The Thing in the Stone • (1970) • novelette by Clifford D. Simak
• 205 • Nobody Lives on Burton Street • (1970) • short story by Gregory Benford [as by Greg Benford]
• 214 • Whatever Became of the McGowans? • (1970) • novelette by Michael G. Coney
• 238 • The Last Time Around • (1968) • novelette by Arthur Sellings
• 261 • Greyspun's Gift • (1970) • short story by Neal Barrett, Jr.
• 276 • The Shaker Revival • (1970) • novelette by Gerald Jonas
• 309 • Dear Aunt Annie • (1970) • novelette by Gordon Eklund
• 343 • Confessions • [Jose Silvera] • (1970) • novelette by Ron Goulart
• 364 • Gone Are the Lupo • (1970) • short story by H. B. Hickey