Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• vii • Introduction (The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 24th Series) • essay by Edward L. Ferman
• 1 • Window • (1980) • short story by Bob Leman
• 19 • The Fire When It Comes • (1981) • novelette by Parke Godwin
• 65 • From Competition 22: Anecdotes in the Style of a SF Writer in the style of Jack Vance • (1979) • short fiction by Paul Major
• 66 • From Competition 22: Anecdotes in the Style of a SF Writer in the style of Philip K. Dick • (1979) • short fiction by Robert Stewart
• 67 • From Competition 22: Anecdotes in the Style of a SF Writer in the style of Barry Malzberg • (1979) • short fiction by Marc Desmond
• 67 • From Competition 22: Anecdotes in the Style of a SF Writer in the style of Robert A. Heinlein • (1979) • short fiction by Buzz Dixon
• 69 • Books: The Secret Language of Science Fiction • (1981) • essay by Algis Budrys
• 80 • Wives • (1979) • short story by Lisa Tuttle
• 90 • The Alien Mind • (1981) • short story by Philip K. Dick
• 94 • Spidersong • (1980) • short story by Susan C. Petrey
• 110 • From Competition 23: Unwieldy SF Titles • (1980) • essay by Bruce Berges
• 110 • From Competition 23: Unwieldy SF Titles • (1980) • essay by Elizabeth Singleton
• 111 • From Competition 23: Unwieldy SF Titles • (1980) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 111 • From Competition 23: Unwieldy SF Titles • (1980) • essay by David Lubar
• 111 • From Competition 23: Unwieldy SF Titles • (1980) • essay by Miki Magyar
• 111 • From Competition 23: Unwieldy SF Titles • (1980) • essay by Robert Werner
• 112 • From Competition 23: Unwieldy SF Titles • (1980) • essay by Niles Gwinn
• 112 • From Competition 23: Unwieldy SF Titles • (1980) • essay by Larry Dan Frost
• 113 • Out There Where the Big Ships Go • (1979) • novelette by Richard Cowper
• 143 • Films and TV: Lost Rewards • (1982) • essay by Baird Searles
• 149 • From Competition 24: Author/Title Misprints • (1980) • essay by Mario Milosevic
• 149 • From Competition 24: Author/Title Misprints • (1980) • essay by Tad Turner
• 149 • From Competition 24: Author/Title Misprints • (1980) • essay by Daniel P. Dern
• 150 • From Competition 24: Author/Title Misprints • (1980) • essay by Augustine Funnell
• 150 • From Competition 24: Author/Title Misprints • (1980) • essay by David Finklestein
• 150 • From Competition 24: Author/Title Misprints • (1980) • essay by Jeff Grimshaw
• 150 • From Competition 24: Author/Title Misprints • (1980) • essay by Michael J. Padgett
• 150 • From Competition 24: Author/Title Misprints • (1980) • essay by Susan Milmore
• 151 • The Curse of the Mhondoro Nkabele • (1978) • novelette by Eric Norden (variant of The Curse of the Mohndoro Nkabele or The Revenge of Stanley G. Weinbaum)
• 183 • The Autopsy • (1980) • novella by Michael Shea
• 221 • From Competition 25: Short Poems About SF Animals: The Sipple • (1980) • poem by Rachel Cosgrove Payes
• 222 • From Competition 25: Short Poems About SF Animals • (1980) • poem by Mary C. Pangborn
• 222 • From Competition 25: Short Poems About SF Animals: The Fleffel • (1980) • poem by Bruce Berges
• 222 • From Competition 25: Short Poems About SF Animals: Conkew • (1980) • poem by Pat Cadigan
• 222 • From Competition 25: Short Poems About SF Animals: The Wud • (1980) • poem by Mike DeSimone
• 223 • From Competition 25: Short Poems About SF Animals • (1980) • poem by Sebastian Robinson
• 224 • A Day at the Fair • (1981) • short story by Neal Barrett, Jr. (variant of "A Day at the Fair")
• 238 • The Most Illuminatingly Doleful and Instructively Affecting Demise of Flo, Late of Upper Blooton • [Bad Habits] • (1980) • poem by Russell M. Griffin
• 241 • The Word I Invented • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1980) • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 252 • The Pusher • (1981) • short story by John Varley
• 269 • From Competition 26: Imaginary Collaborations • (1981) • essay by Jeff Grimshaw
• 269 • From Competition 26: Imaginary Collaborations • (1981) • essay by Susan Milmore
• 270 • From Competition 26: Imaginary Collaborations • (1981) • essay by Michael Tippens
• 270 • From Competition 26: Imaginary Collaborations • (1981) • essay by S. Hamm
• 270 • From Competition 26: Imaginary Collaborations • (1981) • essay by Pat Cadigan
• 270 • From Competition 26: Imaginary Collaborations • (1981) • essay by Jim Detry
• 271 • From Competition 26: Imaginary Collaborations • (1981) • essay by John Nieminski
• 272 • The Brave Little Toaster • [Brave Little Toaster • 1] • (1980) • novelette by Thomas M. Disch