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• vii • Introduction (The Best Science Fiction of the Year) • essay by Terry Carr
• 1 • Occam's Scalpel • (1971) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• 25 • The Queen of Air and Darkness • [The Queen of Air and Darkness] • (1971) • novella by Poul Anderson
• 73 • In Entropy's Jaws • (1971) • novelette by Robert Silverberg
• 113 • The Sliced-Crosswise Only-on-Tuesday World • [Dayworld] • (1971) • short story by
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• 131 • A Meeting with Medusa • [A Meeting with Medusa • 1] • (1971) • novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
• 177 • The Frayed String on the Stretched Forefinger of Time • (1971) • short story by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
• 195 • How Can We Sink When We Can Fly? • (1971) • novelette by Alexei Panshin
• 227 • No Direction Home • (1971) • short story by Norman Spinrad
• 245 • Vaster Than Empires and More Slow • [Hainish] • (1971) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 277 • All the Last Wars at Once • (1971) • short story by George Alec Effinger
• 293 • The Fourth Profession • (1971) • novelette by Larry Niven