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• vii • Introduction (The 1974 Annual World's Best SF) • (1974) • essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• 1 • A Suppliant in Space • (1973) • novelette by Robert Sheckley
• 21 • Parthen • (1973) • short story by R. A. Lafferty
• 28 • Doomship • [Cuckoo] • (1973) • novella by Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson
• 85 • Weed of Time • (1970) • short story by Norman Spinrad (variant of The Weed of Time)
• 93 • A Modest Genius • (1973) • short story by
  Вадим Шефнер^?Vadim Shefner
  (trans. of
  Скромный гений^?Skromnyy geniy
  1963) [as by Vadim Shefner]
• 108 • The Deathbird • (1973) • novelette by Harlan Ellison
• 136 • Evane • (1973) • short story by E. C. Tubb
• 144 • Moby, Too • (1973) • novelette by Gordon Eklund
• 161 • Death and Designation Among the Asadi • (1973) • novella by Michael Bishop
• 233 • Construction Shack • (1973) • short story by Clifford D. Simak