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• 9 • Introduction (The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 7) • essay by Harry Harrison (variant of Introduction (Best SF: 1973) 1974)
• 18 • Roller Ball Murder • (1973) • short story by William Harrison
• 32 • Mason's Life • (1972) • short story by Kingsley Amis
• 35 • Welcome to the Standard Nightmare • (1973) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• 50 • Serpent Burning on an Altar • (1973) • short story by Brian W. Aldiss
• 65 • We Are Very Happy Here • [Mandella] • (1973) • novelette by Joe Haldeman
• 112 • The Birds • (1973) • short story by Thomas M. Disch
• 119 • The Wind and the Rain • (1973) • short story by Robert Silverberg
• 129 • Ten Years Ago ... • (1972) • short story by Max Beerbohm
• 130 •  Ten Years Ago ... • (1972) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 132 • Parthen • (1973) • short story by R. A. Lafferty
• 139 • The Man Who Collected the First of September 1973 • (1973) • short story by
  Tor Åge Bringsvaerd^?Tor Aage Bringsvaerd
  (trans. of
  Mannen som samlet på første September^?Mannen som samlet pa foerste September
  1972)
• 144 • Captain Nemo's Last Adventure • (1973) • novelette by Josef Nesvadba (trans. of
  Poslední dobrodružství kapitána Nemo^?Posledni dobrodruzstvi kapitana Nemo
  1960)
• 170 • La Befana • (1973) • short story by Gene Wolfe