Contents (view Concise Listing)

• ix • Introduction (The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5) • essay by Terry Carr
• 1 • Down to a Sunless Sea • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1975) • novelette by Genevieve Linebarger and Cordwainer Smith [as by Cordwainer Smith]
• 35 • Retrograde Summer • [Eight Worlds] • (1975) • novelette by John Varley
• 59 • The Hero As Werwolf • (1975) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 79 • The Silent Eyes of Time • (1975) • novella by Algis Budrys
• 133 • Croatoan • (1975) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 151 • Doing Lennon • (1975) • short story by Gregory Benford
• 165 • The New Atlantis • (1975) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 193 • Clay Suburb • (1975) • short story by Robert F. Young
• 209 • The Storms of Windhaven • [Windhaven] • (1975) • novella by George R. R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle
• 277 • Child of All Ages • [Melissa] • (1975) • short story by P. J. Plauger
• 299 • In the Bowl • [Eight Worlds] • (1975) • novelette by John Varley
• 337 • Sail the Tide of Mourning • [Space War Blues] • (1975) • short story by Richard A. Lupoff
• 359 • Recommended Reading - 1975 (The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5) • essay by Terry Carr
• 361 • The Science Fiction Year (1975) • essay by Charles N. Brown