The cover of the Twelfth Series anthology of The Best From (The Magazine of) Fantasy & Science Fiction is certainly “science-fictiony” in terms of a rocket, an alien landscape, and a portrait of a pointy-eared, red-eyed generic “alien”, but is otherwise rather bland. The name of the artist – perhaps someone in Ace’s art department? – is unknown.
Jack Gaughan’s interior, title-page illustration is much more compelling.
(The main image originally at this post – at bottom – was of a sticker-damaged copy of the book, which just demanded the replacement shown below!)
Test, by Theodore L. Thomas
Please Stand By, by Ron Goulart
Who’s In Charge Here, by James Blish
Three For The Stars, by Joseph Dickinson
When Lilacs Last in The Dooryard Bloomed, by Vance Aandahl
Landscape With Sphinxes, by Karen Anderson
My Dear Emily, by Joanna Russ
The Gumdrop King, by Will Stanton
The Golden Horn, by Edgar Pangborn
The Singular Events Which Occurred in the Hovel on The Alley Off of Eye Street, by Avram Davidson
A Kind of Artistry, by Brian W. Aldiss
Two’s A Crowd, by Sasha Gilien
The Man Without A Planet, by Kate Wilhelm
The Garden of Time, by J.G. Ballard
Hop-Friend, by Terry Carr
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