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The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 15th Series ed. Edward L. Ferman (Gollancz, 1967, 222pp, hc); Pagination taken from Panther 1969 pb edition.

7 · Introduction · Edward L. Ferman · in
9 · Rake [Ben Jolson] · Ron Goulart · ss F&SF Jun ’65
21 · The History of Doctor Frost · Roderic C. Hodgins · ss F&SF Apr ’65
37 · Four Ghosts in Hamlet · Fritz Leiber · nv F&SF Jan ’65
74 · Keep Them Happy · Robert H. Rohrer, Jr. · ss F&SF Apr ’65
84 · A Murkle for Jesse · Gary Jennings · ss F&SF Jul ’65
102 · Eyes Do More Than See · Isaac Asimov · vi F&SF Apr ’65
106 · The House the Blakeneys Built · Avram Davidson · ss F&SF Jan ’65
119 · The Eight Billion · Richard Wilson · ss F&SF Jul ’65
130 · Something Else · Robert J. Tilley · ss F&SF Oct ’65
148 · Aunt Millicent at the Races · Len Guttridge · ss F&SF Apr ’65
161 · Sea Bright · Hal R. Moore · ss F&SF Sep ’65
174 · Hog-Belly Honey · R. A. Lafferty · ss F&SF Sep ’65
183 · No Different Flesh [People] · Zenna Henderson · nv F&SF May ’65
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 16 ed. Edward L. Ferman (Doubleday, 1967, hc); Ace edition omits all poems and all but two cartoons.

· Introduction · Edward L. Ferman · in
· Luana · Gilbert Thomas · ss F&SF Sep ’66
· And Madly Teach · Lloyd Biggle, Jr. · nv F&SF May ’66
· Matog · Joan Patricia Basch · ss F&SF Aug ’66
· The Key [Wendell Urth] · Isaac Asimov · nv F&SF Oct ’66
· The Seven Wonders of the Universe · Mose Mallette · ss F&SF Aug ’66
· A Few Kindred Spirits · John Christopher · ss F&SF Nov ’65
· We Can Remember It for You Wholesale · Philip K. Dick · nv F&SF Apr ’66
· Three for Carnival · John Shepley · ss F&SF May ’66
· Experiment in Autobiography [Jose Silvera] · Ron Goulart · ss F&SF Jul ’66
· The Adjusted · Kenneth Bulmer · ss F&SF Jun ’66
· The Age of Invention · Norman Spinrad · ss F&SF Jul ’66
· Apology to Inky · Robert M. Green, Jr. · nv F&SF Jan ’66
· This Moment of the Storm · Roger Zelazny · nv F&SF Jun ’66
· Mickey Finn · Doris Pitkin Buck · pm F&SF Mar ’66
· Imaginary Numbers in a Real Garden · Gerald Jonas · pm F&SF Apr ’65
· Letter to a Tyrant King · Bill Butler · pm F&SF Aug ’66
· Memo to Secretary · Pat de Graw · pm F&SF Jun ’66
· Six Cartoons · Gahan Wilson · ct F&SF, 1966
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 17 ed. Edward L. Ferman (Doubleday, 1968, hc)

· Introduction · Edward L. Ferman · in
· Cyprian’s Room · Monica Sterba · nv F&SF May ’67
· Out of Time, Out of Place · George Collyn · ss F&SF Sep ’67
· Von Goom’s Gambit · Victor Contoski · ss Chess Review Apr ’66; F&SF Dec ’66
· Bumberboom · Avram Davidson · nv F&SF Dec ’66
· Fill in the Blank [Max Kearny] · Ron Goulart · ss F&SF May ’67
· Balgrummo’s Hell · Russell Kirk · ss F&SF Jul ’67
· Corona · Samuel R. Delany · ss F&SF Oct ’67
· The Inner Circles · Fritz Leiber · ss F&SF Oct ’67
· Problems of Creativeness · Thomas M. Disch · ss F&SF Apr ’67; revised, as “The Death of Socrates”, 334, Thomas N. Disch, Avon, 1974
· Encounter in the Past · Robert Nathan · ss F&SF Jul ’67
· The Sea Change · Arthur Jean Cox · ss F&SF Mar ’67
· The Devil and Democracy [Devil] · Brian Cleeve · ss Argosy (UK) Oct ’66
· Randy’s Syndrome · Brian W. Aldiss · nv F&SF Apr ’67
· Four Cartoons · Gahan Wilson · ct F&SF, 1967
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 18 ed. Edward L. Ferman (Doubleday, 1969, hc)

· The Cloud-Sculptors of Coral D [Vermillion Sands] · J. G. Ballard · ss F&SF Dec ’67
· The People Trap · Robert Sheckley · ss F&SF Jun ’68
· In His Own Image · Lloyd Biggle, Jr. · ss F&SF Jan ’68
· Ogre! · Edward Jesby · nv F&SF Sep ’68
· Lunatic Assignment · Sonya Dorman · ss F&SF Jan ’68
· Gifts from the Universe · Leonard Tushnet · ss F&SF May ’68
· Sundown · David Redd · nv F&SF Dec ’67
· Beyond the Game · Vance Aandahl · ss F&SF May ’68
· Sea Home · William M. Lee · nv F&SF Jun ’68
· That High-Up Blue Day That Saw the Black Sky-train Come Spinning · David R. Bunch · ss F&SF Mar ’68
· Muscadine · Ron Goulart · ss F&SF Apr ’68
· Final War · K. M. O’Donnell · nv F&SF Apr ’68
· I Have My Vigil · Harry Harrison · vi F&SF Feb ’68
· The Egg of the Glak · Harvey Jacobs · nv F&SF Mar ’68
· Five Cartoons · Gahan Wilson · ct F&SF, 1968
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 19 ed. Edward L. Ferman (Doubleday, 1971, hc)

· Gone Fishin’ · Robin Scott Wilson · ss F&SF Oct ’70
· Selectra Six-ten · Avram Davidson · ss F&SF Oct ’70
· Longtooth · Edgar Pangborn · nv F&SF Jan ’70
· Sundance · Robert Silverberg · ss F&SF Jun ’69
· The Brief, Swinging Career of Dan and Judy Smythe · Carter Wilson · ss F&SF Apr ’70
· Dream Patrol · Charles W. Runyon · ss F&SF Feb ’70
· Calliope and Gherkin and the Yankee Doodle Thing · Evelyn E. Smith · nv F&SF Mar ’69
· Notes Just Prior to the Fall · Barry N. Malzberg · ss F&SF Oct ’70
· Confessions [Jose Silvera] · Ron Goulart · nv F&SF Aug ’70
· Get a Horse! [Hanville Svetz] · Larry Niven · ss F&SF Oct ’69
· The Man Who Learned Loving [“Brownshoes”] · Theodore Sturgeon · ss Adam May ’69; F&SF Oct ’69
· Litterbug · Tony Morphett · nv F&SF Jul ’69
· An Adventure in the Yolla Bolly Middle Eel Wilderness · Vance Aandahl · nv F&SF Aug ’69
· Starting from Scratch · Robert Sheckley · ss F&SF Nov ’70
· Benji’s Pencil · Bruce McAllister · ss F&SF Mar ’69
· Six Cartoons · Gahan Wilson · ct F&SF, 1970
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 20 ed. Edward L. Ferman (Doubleday, 1973, hc)

· Shaffery Among the Immortals · Frederik Pohl · ss F&SF Jul ’72
· A Different Drummer · Raylyn Moore · ss F&SF Feb ’71
· The Deathbird · Harlan Ellison · nv F&SF Mar ’73
· Born to Exile [Alaric] · Phyllis Eisenstein · nv F&SF Aug ’71
· Thus Love Betrays Us · Phyllis MacLennan · ss F&SF Sep ’72
· The Animal Fair · Alfred Bester · nv F&SF Oct ’72
· Is It the End of the World? · Wilma Shore · ss F&SF Mar ’72
· The Bear with the Knot on His Tail [Stardust] · Stephen Tall · nv F&SF May ’71
· Birdlime · B. L. Keller · ss F&SF Mar ’71
· The Problem of Pain · Poul Anderson · nv F&SF Feb ’73
· Sooner or Later or Never Never [Crispin Mobey] · Gary Jennings · nv F&SF May ’72
· Cartoons · Gahan Wilson · ct F&SF
Once and Future Tales from the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction ed. Edward L. Ferman (Harris-Wolfe, 1968, hc)

· Introduction · Judith Merril · in
· The Manor of Roses [John & Stephen] · Thomas Burnett Swann · na F&SF Nov ’66
· End of the Line · Chad Oliver · nv F&SF Jan ’65
· The Fifteenth Wind of March · Frederick Bland · nv F&SF Jun ’62
· Journey of Ten Thousand Miles · Will Mohler · ss F&SF Mar ’63
· Fruiting Body · Rosel George Brown · nv F&SF Aug ’62
· Open to Me, My Sister · Philip José Farmer · na F&SF May ’60
· The Case of the Homocidal Robots · Murray Leinster · nv F&SF Aug ’61
· When You Care, When You Love · Theodore Sturgeon · nv F&SF Sep ’62
· The Masculinist Revolt · William Tenn · nv F&SF Aug ’65
Arena: Sports SF ed. Edward L. Ferman & Barry N. Malzberg (Doubleday, 1976, hc)

· Introduction · Edward L. Freman · in
· Whispers in Bedlam · Irwin Shaw · na Playboy Feb ’69
· Mirror of Ice · Gary Wright · ss Galaxy Jun ’67
· Dodger Fan · Will Stanton · ss F&SF Jun ’57
· Closed Sicilian · Barry N. Malzberg · ss F&SF Nov ’73
· Arena · Fredric Brown · nv Astounding Jun ’44
· Nobody Bothers Gus [as by Paul Janvier] · Algis Budrys · ss Astounding Nov ’55
· Open Warfare · James E. Gunn · nv Galaxy May ’54
· Gladys’s Gregory · John Anthony West · ss F&SF Feb ’63
· The Night Boxing Ended · Bruce Jay Friedman · ss Gentleman’s Quarterly, 1966
· Beyond the Game · Vance Aandahl · ss F&SF May ’68
· The Hungarian Cinch · Bill Pronzini · nv *
· Afterword: On the Non-Transcendence of Sport · Barry N. Malzberg · aw
Final Stage ed. Edward L. Ferman & Barry N. Malzberg (Charterhouse, 1974, hc)

· Introduction · Edward L. Ferman & Barry N. Malzberg · in
· We Purchased People · Frederik Pohl · ss *
· The Voortrekkers · Poul Anderson · nv *
· Great Escape Tours, Inc. · Kit Reed · ss *
· Diagrams for Three Enigmatic Stories · Brian W. Aldiss · gp *; The Girl in the Tau-Dream, ss; The Immobility Crew, ss; A Cultural Side-Effect, ss
· —That Thou Art Mindful of Him! · Isaac Asimov · nv F&SF May ’74
· We Three · Dean R. Koontz · ss *
· An Old Fashioned Girl · Joanna Russ · ss *
· Catman · Harlan Ellison · nv *
· Space Rats of the C.C.C. · Harry Harrison · nv *
· Trips · Robert Silverberg · nv *
· The Wonderful, All-Purpose Transmogrifier · Barry N. Malzberg · ss *
· Her Smoke Rose Up Forever · James Tiptree, Jr. · nv *
· A Little Something for Us Tempunauts · Philip K. Dick · nv *
Twenty Years of Fantasy & Science Fiction ed. Edward L. Ferman & Robert P. Mills (G.P. Putnam’s, 1970, hc)

· F&SF and I · Isaac Asimov · in
· 5,271,009 · Alfred Bester · nv F&SF Mar ’54
· Free Dirt · Charles Beaumont · ss F&SF May ’55
· Becalmed in Hell · Larry Niven · ss F&SF Jul ’65
· Private—Keep Out! · Philip MacDonald · ss F&SF Fll ’49
· Gladys’s Gregory · John Anthony West · ss F&SF Feb ’63
· Feminine Intuition [Susan Calvin (Robot)] · Isaac Asimov · nv F&SF Oct ’69
· That Hell-Bound Train · Robert Bloch · ss F&SF Sep ’58
· A Touch of Strange · Theodore Sturgeon · ss F&SF Jan ’58
· Gratitude Guaranteed · Reginald Bretnor & Kris Neville · nv F&SF Aug ’53
· Prime-Time Teaser · Bruce McAllister · ss F&SF Dec ’68
· As Long as You’re Here · Will Stanton · ss F&SF Jul ’63
· Sweet Helen · Charles W. Runyon · ss F&SF Sep ’69
· A Final Sceptre, a Lasting Crown · Ray Bradbury · ss F&SF Oct ’69
· Yes, We Have No Ritchard · Bruce Jay Friedman · ss F&SF Nov ’60
· We Can Remember It for You Wholesale · Philip K. Dick · nv F&SF Apr ’66
· 237 Talking Statues, Etc. · Fritz Leiber · ss F&SF Sep ’63
· M-1 · Gahan Wilson · ss F&SF Feb ’70
· The Silly Season · C. M. Kornbluth · ss F&SF Fll ’50
· The Holiday Man · Richard Matheson · ss F&SF Jul ’57
· Something Else · Robert J. Tilley · ss F&SF Oct ’65
No Limits ed. Joseph W. Ferman (Ballantine, Aug ’64, pb)

· The Education of Tigress Macardle · C. M. Kornbluth · ss Venture Jul ’57
· All the Colors of the Rainbow · Leigh Brackett · nv Venture Nov ’57
· Now Let Us Sleep · Avram Davidson · ss Venture Sep ’57
· Vengeance for Nikolai · Walter M. Miller, Jr. · nv Venture Mar ’57
· The Seat of Judgment · Lester del Rey · ss Venture Jul ’57
· Buy Jupiter! · Isaac Asimov · ss Venture May ’58
· And Then She Found Him... · Algis Budrys · ss Venture Jul ’57
· Before the Talent Dies · Henry Slesar · nv Venture Sep ’57
· The Comedian’s Children · Theodore Sturgeon · nv Venture May ’58
In Dreams Awake ed. Leslie A. Fiedler (Dell, Jul ’75, pb)

· Introduction · Leslie A. Fiedler · in
· The Beginnings · Leslie A. Fiedler · si
· The Crystal Egg · H. G. Wells · ss The New Review May, 1897
· Unprofessional · Rudyard Kipling · ss Saturday Review of Literature Oct ’30
· The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine Dec, 1839
· The Tartarus of Maids [from “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids”] · Herman Melville · ss, 1855
· Three Thousand Years Among the Microbes · Mark Twain · ss
· The Colour Out of Space · H. P. Lovecraft · nv Amazing Sep ’27
· The Golden Age · Leslie A. Fiedler · si
· The Cold Equations · Tom Godwin · nv Astounding Aug ’54
· Helen O’Loy · Lester del Rey · ss Astounding Dec ’38
· It’s a Good Life · Jerome Bixby · ss Star Science Fiction Stories #2, ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1953
· Resurrection [“The Monster”] · A. E. van Vogt · ss Astounding Aug ’48
· The Green Hills of Earth · Robert A. Heinlein · ss The Saturday Evening Post Feb 8 ’47
· Liar! [Susan Calvin (Robot)] · Isaac Asimov · ss Astounding May ’41
· The Nine Billion Names of God · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Star Science Fiction Stories #1, ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1953
· August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains [“There Will Come Soft Rains”] · Ray Bradbury · ss Colliers May 6 ’50
· Mother · Philip José Farmer · nv Thrilling Wonder Stories Apr ’53
· The Muse · Anthony Burgess · ss The Hudson Review Spr ’68
· New Directions · Leslie A. Fiedler · si
· Nine Lives · Ursula K. Le Guin · nv Playboy Nov ’69
· “Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman · Harlan Ellison · ss Galaxy Dec ’65
· Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones · Samuel R. Delany · nv New Worlds Dec ’68
· The Second Inquisition [Alyx] · Joanna Russ · nv Orbit 6, ed. Damon Knight, G.P. Putnam’s, 1970
· Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy · J. G. Ballard · ss Ambit #31 ’66
I Love Galesburg in the Springtime Jack Finney (Simon & Schuster LCC# 63-7623, 1963, $3.95, 224pp, hc)

11 · “I Love Galesburg in the Springtime” · nv McCall’s Apr ’60
35 · Love, Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere [“The Man with the Magic Glasses”] · nv McCall’s Mar ’62
57 · Where the Cluetts Are · nv McCall’s Jan ’62
79 · Hey, Look at Me! · ss Playboy Sep ’62
99 · A Possible Candidate for the Presidency [“Tiger Tamer”] · ss Colliers May 31 ’52
117 · Prison Legend [“Seven Days to Live”] · nv The Saturday Evening Post Jan 10 ’59
139 · The Face in the Photo [“Time Has No Boundaries”] · ss The Saturday Evening Post Oct 13 ’62
161 · The Intrepid Aeronaut [“An Old Tune”] · nv McCall’s Oct ’61
183 · The Coin Collector [“The Other Wife”] · ss The Saturday Evening Post Jan 30 ’60
205 · The Love Letter · ss The Saturday Evening Post Aug 1 ’59
The Third Level Jack Finney (Rinehart, 1957, $3.00, 256pp, hc); In England as The Clock of Time.

· The Third Level · ss Colliers Oct 7 ’50; F&SF Oct ’52
· Such Interesting Neighbors · ss Colliers Jan 6 ’51
· I’m Scared · ss Colliers Sep 15 ’51
· Cousin Len’s Wonderful Adjective Cellar · ss Ladies Home Journal Apr ’48
· Of Missing Persons · ss Good Housekeeping Mar ’55
· Something in a Cloud · ss
· There Is a Tide... · ss Colliers Aug 2 ’52; F&SF Sep ’54
· Quit Zoomin’ Those Hands Through the Air · ss Colliers Aug 4 ’51; F&SF Dec ’52
· A Dash of Spring · ss
· Second Chance · ss Good Housekeeping Apr ’56
· Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket · nv Colliers Oct 26 ’56
The Late Great Future ed. Gregory Fitz Gerald & John Dillon (Fawcett Crest, 1976, pb)

· Introduction · Gregory Fitz Gerald & John Dillon · in
· When We Went to See the End of the World · Robert Silverberg · ss Universe 2, ed. Terry Carr, Ace, 1972
· A Thing of Custom · L. Sprague de Camp · ss Fantastic Universe Jan ’57
· The Pedestrian · Ray Bradbury · ss The Reporter Aug 7 ’51; F&SF Feb ’52
· William and Mary · Roald Dahl · nv Kiss Kiss, Knopf, 1959
· Flowers for Algernon · Daniel Keyes · nv F&SF Apr ’59
· The Country of the Kind · Damon Knight · ss F&SF Feb ’56
· Come to Venus Melancholy · Thomas M. Disch · ss F&SF Nov ’65
· How Beautiful with Banners · James Blish · ss Orbit 1, ed. Damon Knight, Berkley Medallion, 1966
· The Totally Rich · John Brunner · nv Worlds of Tomorrow Jun ’63
· America the Beautiful · Fritz Leiber · ss The Year 2000, ed. Harry Harrison, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970
· The Annex · John D. MacDonald · ss Playboy May ’68
· The Shoddy Lands · C. S. Lewis · ss F&SF Feb ’56
· Crucifixus Etiam · Walter M. Miller, Jr. · ss Astounding Feb ’53
· Three Portraits and a Prayer · Frederik Pohl · ss Galaxy Aug ’62
The Saturday Evening Post Fantasy Stories ed. Barthold Fles (Avon 389, Oct ’51, 25¢, 126pp, pb)

3 · The Enemy Planet · D. V. Gallery · ss The Saturday Evening Post Sep 30 ’50
20 · The Child Who Believed · Grace Amundson · ss The Saturday Evening Post Dec 16 ’50
35 · Scene for Satan · Noel Langley · ss The Saturday Evening Post Jan 25 ’47
54 · Doomsday Deferred · Will F. Jenkins · ss The Saturday Evening Post Sep 24 ’49
71 · The Eternal Duffer · Willard Temple · ss The Saturday Evening Post May 18 ’46
83 · Note on Danger B · Gerald Kersh · ss The Saturday Evening Post Apr 5 ’47
91 · The Terrible Answer · Paul W. Gallico · ss The Saturday Evening Post Jun 17 ’50
104 · The Voice in the Earphones · Wilbur Schramm · ss The Saturday Evening Post Mar 29 ’47
114 · Doctor Hanray’s Second Chance · Conrad Richter · ss The Saturday Evening Post Jun 10 ’50
Science and Sorcery ed. Garret Ford (Fantasy Publishing Co., Inc., 1953, hc)

· Scanners Live in Vain · Cordwainer Smith · nv Fantasy Book #6 ’50
· The Little Man on the Subway · Isaac Asimov & James MacCreigh · ss Fantasy Book #6 ’50
· What Goes Up [“Goldfish Bowl”] · Alfred Coppel · ss Fantasy Book #6 ’50
· Kleon of the Golden Sun · Ed Earl Repp · nv Fantasy Book #7 ’50
· How High on the Ladder? · Leo Paige · ss Fantasy Book #7 ’50
· Footprints · Robert E. Gilbert · ss Fantasy Book #8 ’51
· The Naming of Names · Ray Bradbury · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Aug ’49
· The Eyes · Henry Hasse · nv Fantasy Book #8 ’51
· The Scarlet Lunes · Stanton A. Coblentz · ss Fantasy Book #6 ’50
· Demobilization · George R. Cowie · nv The Vortex #1 ’47
· Voices from the Cliff · John Martin Leahy · ss Weird Tales May ’25
· The Lost Chord · Sam Moskowitz · ss *
· The Watchers · R. H. Deutsch · ss *
· The Peaceful Martian · J. T. Oliver · ss Fantasy Book #8 ’51
· Escape to Yesterday · Arthur J. Burks · ss *

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