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• 9 • Introduction (The Great SF Stories #23 (1961)) • essay by Martin H. Greenberg [as by uncredited]
• 13 • The Highest Treason • (1961) • novella by Randall Garrett
• 75 • Hothouse • [Hothouse] • (1961) • novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
• 112 • Hiding Place • [Nicholas Van Rijn] • (1961) • novella by Poul Anderson
• 154 • What Is This Thing Called Love? • (1961) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 168 • A Prize for Edie • (1961) • short story by J. F. Bone
• 174 • The Ship Who Sang • [The Ship Who ...] • (1961) • novelette by Anne McCaffrey
• 195 • Death and the Senator • (1961) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 217 • The Quaker Cannon • (1961) • novelette by C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl
• 243 • The Moon Moth • (1961) • novelette by Jack Vance
• 281 • A Planet Named Shayol • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1961) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
• 320 • Rainbird • (1961) • short story by R. A. Lafferty
• 333 • Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night • (1961) • novelette by Algis Budrys
• 356 • Remember the Alamo! • (1961) • short story by T. R. Fehrenbach [as by R. R. Fehrenbach]