Best Science Fiction Stories of the year Del Rey/Dozois Series by Lester del Rey

ContentsA Little Knowledge / Poul AndersonAutumntime / A. LentiniForeword: Alternate Possibilities / Lester del ReyGood News from the Vatican / Robert SilverbergHot Potato / Burt K. FilerI'll Be Waiting for You When the Swimming Pool Is Empty / James Tiptree Jr.Occam's Scalpel / Theodore SturgeonOrnithanthropus / B. Alan BurhoeRammer / Larry NivenThe Human Operators / Harlan Ellison and A.E. van VogtThe Man Underneath / R.A. LaffertyThe Power of the Sentence / David M... moreContentsA Little Knowledge / Poul AndersonAutumntime / A. LentiniForeword: Alternate Possibilities / Lester del ReyGood News from the Vatican / Robert SilverbergHot Potato / Burt K. FilerI'll Be Waiting for You When the Swimming Pool Is Empty / James Tiptree Jr.Occam's Scalpel / Theodore SturgeonOrnithanthropus / B. Alan BurhoeRammer / Larry NivenThe Human Operators / Harlan Ellison and A.E. van VogtThe Man Underneath / R.A. LaffertyThe Power of the Sentence / David M. LockeThe Science Fiction Yearbook (1971) / essay by Lester del ReyThe Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World / Philip José FarmerThe Wicked Flee / Harry HarrisonTo Make a New Neanderthal / W. Macfarlane, as Wallace MacfarlaneWhen You Hear the Tone / Thomas N. Scortia less

This anthology contains: If This Is Winnetka You Must Be Judy by F. M. Busby; Sleeping Dogs by Harlan Ellison; The Mountains of Sunset the Mountains of Dawn by Vonda M. McIntyre; Earth Mother by Carolyn Gloeckner; Dream Gone Green by Alan Dean Foster; The Night Is Cold the Stars Are Far Away by Mildred Downey Broxon; Ad Astra by Harry Harrison; And Name My Name by R. A. Lafferty; Mute Inglorious Tam by Frederik Pohl and C. M... moreThis anthology contains: If This Is Winnetka You Must Be Judy by F. M. Busby; Sleeping Dogs by Harlan Ellison; The Mountains of Sunset the Mountains of Dawn by Vonda M. McIntyre; Earth Mother by Carolyn Gloeckner; Dream Gone Green by Alan Dean Foster; The Night Is Cold the Stars Are Far Away by Mildred Downey Broxon; Ad Astra by Harry Harrison; And Name My Name by R. A. Lafferty; Mute Inglorious Tam by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth; The Man Who Came Back by Robert Silverberg; Dress Rehearsal by Harvey Jacobs; Enter a Pilgrim by Gordon R. Dickson; The Postponed Cure by Stan Nodvik; and The Birch Clump Cylinder by Clifford D. Simak. less

Foreword: The Spice of Variety by Lester del ReyCloak of Anarchy by Larry NivenWhen We Went to See the End of the World by Robert Silverberg Watchdog by Jack C. HaldemanPatron of the Arts by William RotslerThe Man Who Walked Home by James TiptreeWoman's Rib by Thomas N. ScortiaThus Love Betrays Us by Phyllis MacLennanMiscount by C.N. GloecknerLong Shot by Vernor VingeThe Long Silence by Donald NoakesTeratohippus by Robert L. DavisEurema's Dam by R.A... moreForeword: The Spice of Variety by Lester del ReyCloak of Anarchy by Larry NivenWhen We Went to See the End of the World by Robert Silverberg Watchdog by Jack C. HaldemanPatron of the Arts by William RotslerThe Man Who Walked Home by James TiptreeWoman's Rib by Thomas N. ScortiaThus Love Betrays Us by Phyllis MacLennanMiscount by C.N. GloecknerLong Shot by Vernor VingeThe Long Silence by Donald NoakesTeratohippus by Robert L. DavisEurema's Dam by R.A. LaffertyThe Meeting by Frederick Pohl & C.M. KornbluthThe Greates Asset by Isaac AsimovUnderbelly by Gordon EklundThe Science Fiction Yearbook less

Contents:Diary of the rose / Ursula K. Le Guin --Custer's last jump / Steven Utley and Howard Waldrop --Air raid / John Varley --Ladies and gentlemen, this is your crisis / Kate Wilhelm --Back to the stone age / Jake Saunders --Armaja das / Joe Haldeman --Mary Margaret road-grader / Howard Waldrop --Sanmurai and the willows / Michael Bishop.