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• ix • Introduction (Best SF: 1973) • (1974) • essay by Harry Harrison
• 1 • Roller Ball Murder • (1973) • short story by William Harrison
• 17 • Mason's Life • (1972) • short story by Kingsley Amis
• 21 • Welcome to the Standard Nightmare • (1973) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• 37 • Serpent Burning on an Altar • (1973) • short story by Brian W. Aldiss
• 53 • We Are Very Happy Here • [Mandella] • (1973) • novelette by Joe Haldeman
• 106 • The Birds • (1973) • short story by Thomas M. Disch
• 114 • The Wind and the Rain • (1973) • short story by Robert Silverberg
• 125 • Ten Years Ago ... • (1972) • short story by Max Beerbohm
• 126 •  Ten Years Ago ... • (1972) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 128 • Parthen • (1973) • short story by R. A. Lafferty
• 136 • The Man Who Collected the First of September 1973 • (1973) • short story by
  Tor Åge Bringsvaerd^?Tor Aage Bringsvaerd
  Tor Age Bringsvaerd
  (trans. of
  Mannen som samlet på første September^?Mannen som samlet paa foerste September
  Mannen som samlet pa forste September
  Mannen som samlet paa forste September
  1972)
• 142 • Captain Nemo's Last Adventure • (1973) • novelette by Josef Nesvadba (trans. of
  Poslední dobrodružství kapitána Nemo^?Posledni dobrodruzstvi kapitana Nemo
  1960)
• 170 • La Befana • (1973) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 175 • A Curse • (1972) • poem by W. H. Auden
• 176 • Auto-Apotheosis • (1972) • poem by Anthony Haden-Guest
• 177 • Two Poems • (1973) • poem by William John Watkins [as by William Jon Watkins]
• 178 • Sport • (1973) • poem by Steven Utley
• 179 • The Window in Dante's Hell • [Urban Nucleus] • (1973) • short story by Michael Bishop (variant of The Windows in Dante's Hell)
• 198 • Sister Francetta and Pig Baby • (1973) • short story by Kenneth Bernard
• 200 • Escape • [
  В Дономаге / In Donomag^?V Donomage
  ] • (1973) • short story by
  Илья Варшавский^?Ilya Varshavsky
  Ilja Varsjavskij
  Ilja Warschawski
  (trans. of
  Побег^?Pobeg
  1968) [as by Ilya Varshavsky]
• 216 • Early Bird • (1973) • short story by Theodore R. Cogswell and Theodore L. Thomas
• 231 • Afterword: The Wizard and the Plumber • (1974) • essay by Brian W. Aldiss