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• 1 • Introduction (Best SF: 1969) • (1970) • essay by Harry Harrison
• 7 • The Muse • (1968) • short story by Anthony Burgess
• 29 • Working in the Spaceship Yards • (1969) • short story by Brian W. Aldiss
• 37 • The Schematic Man • (1969) • short story by Frederik Pohl
• 45 • The Snows Are Melted, the Snows Are Gone • (1969) • short story by James Tiptree, Jr.
• 61 • Hospital of Transplanted Hearts • (1969) • poem by D. M. Thomas
• 67 • Eco-Catastrophe! • (1969) • short story by Paul R. Ehrlich
• 85 • The Castle on the Crag • (1969) • short story by Pg Wyal
• 91 • Nine Lives • (1969) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 123 • Progression of the Species • (1967) • poem by Brian W. Aldiss
• 125 • Report Back • (1969) • poem by John Cotton (poet)
• 129 • The Killing Ground • (1969) • short story by J. G. Ballard
• 141 • The Dannold Cheque • (1969) • short story by Ken W. Purdy
• 153 • Womb to Tomb • (1969) • short story by Joseph Wesley
• 171 • Like Father • (1969) • short story by Jon Hartridge
• 185 • The Electric Ant • (1969) • short story by Philip K. Dick
• 207 • The Man Inside • (1969) • short story by Bruce McAllister
• 211 • Now Hear the Word of the Lord • (1969) • short story by Algis Budrys
• 219 • Afterword - An Awful Lot of Copy • (1970) • essay by Brian W. Aldiss