Contents (view Concise Listing)

• vii • Introduction (The 1980 Annual World's Best SF) • (1980) • essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• 1 • The Way of Cross and Dragon • [Thousand Worlds] • (1979) • novelette by George R. R. Martin
• 20 • The Thirteenth Utopia • [Inquestor] • (1979) • short story by S. P. Somtow [as by Somtow Sucharitkul]
• 43 • Options • [Eight Worlds] • (1979) • novelette by John Varley
• 73 • Unaccompanied Sonata • (1979) • short story by Orson Scott Card
• 92 • The Story Writer • (1979) • novella by Richard Wilson
• 136 • Daisy, in the Sun • (1979) • short story by Connie Willis
• 155 • The Locusts • (1979) • novelette by Steven Barnes and Larry Niven
• 196 • The Thaw • (1979) • novelette by Tanith Lee
• 217 • Out There Where the Big Ships Go • (1979) • novelette by Richard Cowper
• 246 • Can These Bones Live? • (1979) • short story by Ted Reynolds
• 266 • The Extraordinary Voyages of Amélie Bertrand • (1979) • short story by Joanna Russ