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