7th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F

Contents: Oneiromachia, poem by Conrad Aiken; A Passage from the Stars, by Kaatje Hurlbut; Among the Dangs (excerpt), by George P. Elliott; Immediately Yours, by Robert Beverly Hale; Parky, by David Rome; The Fastest Gun Dead, by Julian F. Grow; All the Tea in China, by Reginald Bretnor; The Portobello Road, by Muriel Spark; Ottmar Balleau X 2, by George Bamber; The Dandelion Girl, by Robert F. Young; Nightmare in Time, by Fredric Brown; Cartoon: Looking Backwar, interior artwork by Jules Feiffer; Three Prologues and an Epilogue, poem by John Dos Passos; It Becomes Necessary, by Ward Moore; My Trial as a War Criminal, by Leo Szilard; A Prize for Edie, by J. F. Bone; Freedom, by Mack Reynolds; High Barbary, by Lawrence Durrell; The Quaker Cannon, by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth; Quake, Quake, Quake, interior artwork by Edward Gorey; Quake, Quake, Quake (Excerpt), poem by Paul Dehn; Judas Bomb, by Kit Reed; A Small Miracle of Fishhooks and Straight Pins, by David R. Bunch; The Tunnel Ahead, by Alice Glaser; Extraterrestrial Trilogue on Terran Self-Destruction, poem by Sheri S. Eberhart; The Countdown, by John Haase; The Beat Cluster, by Fritz Leiber; In Tomorrow's Little Black Bag, essay by James Blish; The Ship Who Sang, by Anne McCaffrey; A Planet Named Shayol, by Cordwainer Smith; The Asteroids, 2194, by John Wyndham; The Long Night, by Ray Russell; To an Astronaut Dying Young, poem by Maxine W. Kumin; Summation: S-F, 1961, essay by Judith Merril; Books, essay by Anthony Boucher; Honorable Mentions, essay by Judith Merril.