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Cover of 7th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F

7th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F

Judith Merril

First published 1963
Publisher Dell
Format Paperback
Type Anthology
Catalog ID 9773
Cover art Brillhart
Pages 399
Price $0.75

  • "First Dell printing—June 1963"; no number line
  • "Cover Illustration by Brillhart" on back cover, no visible signature on the artwork
  • Printed in the US

Page Title Author(s) Type
11 Oneiromachia Conrad Aiken Poem
12 A Passage from the Stars Kaatje Hurlbut Short Story
26 Among the Dangs (excerpt) George P. Elliott Short Fiction
54 Immediately Yours Robert Beverly Hale Short Story
72 Parky David Rome Short Story
80 The Fastest Gun Dead Julian F. Grow Short Story
92 All the Tea in China R. Bretnor Short Story
103 The Portobello Road Muriel Spark Novelette
126 Ottmar Balleau X 2 George Bamber Short Story
138 The Dandelion Girl Robert F. Young Short Story
153 Nightmare in Time Fredric Brown Short Story
156 Three Prologues and an Epilogue John Dos Passos Poem
163 It Becomes Necessary Ward Moore Short Story
175 My Trial As a War Criminal Leo Szilard Short Story
185 A Prize for Edie J. F. Bone Short Story
190 Freedom Mack Reynolds Novelette
219 High Barbary Lawrence Durrell Short Story
224 The Quaker Cannon Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth Novelette
251 Quake, Quake, Quake (excerpt) Paul Dehn Poem
254 Judas Bomb Kit Reed Short Story
264 A Small Miracle of Fishhooks and Straight Pins David R. Bunch Short Story
267 The Tunnel Ahead Alice Glaser Short Story
276 Extraterrestrial Trilogue on Terran Self-Destruction Sheri S. Eberhart Poem
279 The Countdown John Haase Short Story
288 The Beat Cluster Fritz Leiber Short Story
303 In Tomorrow's Little Black Bag James Blish Essay
310 The Ship Who Sang Anne McCaffrey Novelette
331 A Planet Named Shayol Cordwainer Smith Novelette
371 The Asteroids, 2194 John Wyndham Short Story
387 The Long Night Ray Russell Short Story
389 To an Astronaut Dying Young Maxine W. Kumin Poem
391 Summation: S-F, 1961 Judith Merril Essay
393 Books (The 7th Annual of the Year's Best S-F) Anthony Boucher Essay
396 Honorable Mentions (The 7th Annual of the Year's Best S-F) Judith Merril Essay