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• 9 • Introduction (The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 17) • (1968) • essay by Edward L. Ferman
• 13 • Cyprian's Room • (1967) • novelette by Frances Oliver [as by Monica Sterba]
• 37 • Out of Time, Out of Place • (1967) • short story by George Collyn
• 53 • Von Goom's Gambit • (1966) • short story by Victor Contoski
• 59 • Bumberboom • (1966) • novelette by Avram Davidson
• 97 • Fill in the Blank • [Max Kearny] • (1967) • short story by Ron Goulart
• 113 • Balgrummo's Hell • (1967) • short story by Russell Kirk
• 133 • Corona • (1967) • short story by Samuel R. Delany
• 153 • The Inner Circles • (1967) • short story by Fritz Leiber (variant of The Winter Flies)
• 169 • Problems of Creativeness • (1967) • novelette by Thomas M. Disch
• 193 • Encounter in the Past • (1967) • short story by Robert Nathan
• 201 • The Sea Change • (1967) • short story by Arthur Jean Cox [as by Jean Cox]
• 219 • The Devil and Democracy • [Devil & Belphagor • 1] • (1966) • short story by Brian Cleeve
• 235 • Randy's Syndrome • (1967) • novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
• [257] •  Cartoon: "You can tell she's thinking it over!" • (1967) • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• [258] •  Cartoon: "Ding dong the witch is dead!" • (1967) • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• [259] •  Cartoon: "It's the one attack the country wasn't prepared for, Mr. President!" • (1967) • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson