Introduction, by Terry Carr
1970
“Ill Met in Lankhmar”, by Fritz Leiber
(The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April, 1970)
“Slow Sculpture”, by Theodore Sturgeon
(Galaxy Science Fiction, February, 1970)
1971
“The Missing Man”, by Katherine MacLean
(Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact, March, 1971)
“The Queen of Air and Darkness”, by Poul Anderson
(The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April, 1971)
“Good News from the Vatican”, by Robert Silverberg
(Universe 1, 1971)
1972
“A Meeting with Medusa”, by Arthur C. Clarke
(Playboy, December, 1971)
“Goat Song”, by Poul Anderson
(The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February, 1972)
“When It Changed”, by Joanna Russ
(Again, Dangerous Visions, March, 1972)
1973
“The Death of Doctor Island”, by Gene Wolfe
(Universe 3, 1973)
“Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand”, by Vonda N. Mclntyre
(Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact, October, 1973)
“Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death”, by James Tiptree, Jr.
(The Alien Condition, April, 1973)
1974
“Born with the Dead”, by Robert Silverberg
(Born with the Dead – Three Novellas About the Spirit of Man, 1974)
“If the Stars Are Gods”, by Gordon Eklund and Gregory Benford
(Universe 4, 1974)
“The Day Before the Revolution”, by Ursula K. Le Guin
(Galaxy Science Fiction, August, 1974)