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10th Annual Edition: The Year's Best SF

Judith Merril

First published 1965
Publisher Delacorte Press
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art G. Ziel
Pages 400
Price $4.95

  • On copyright page: "First Printing" (as noted by Currey), "Copyright (c) 1965 by Judith Merril" and LCCN for this series ({{LCCN|65-8938}}.)
  • $4.95 price on front flap of jacket. "Illustration by G. Ziel" on back flap.
  • The Acknowledgements on the copyright page includes, "When first published, The Carson Effect, The Search, The Mathenauts, and Be of Good Cheer appeared in slightly different form".
  • "Issued later in Great Britain as 10th Annual S-F." - Currey

Page Title Author(s) Type
9 Automatic Tiger Kit Reed Short Story
25 The Carson Effect Richard Wilson Short Story
41 The Shining Ones Arthur C. Clarke Short Story
60 Pacifist Mack Reynolds Short Story
80 The New Encyclopaedist Stephen Becker Short Story
87 The Legend of Joe Lee John D. MacDonald Short Story
100 Gas Mask James D. Houston Short Story
111 A Sinister Metamorphosis Russell Baker Short Story
114 Sonny Rick Raphael Short Story
132 The Last Secret Weapon of the Third Reich Josef Nesvadba Short Story
146 Descending Thomas M. Disch Short Story
159 Decadence Romain Gary Short Story
177 Be of Good Cheer Fritz Leiber Short Story
182 It Could Be You Frank Roberts Short Story
192 A Benefactor of Humanity James T. Farrell Short Story
198 Synchromocracy Hap Cawood Short Story
200 The Search Bruce Simonds Poem
207 The Pirokin Effect Larry Eisenberg Short Story
211 The Twerlik Jack Sharkey Short Story
221 A Rose for Ecclesiastes Roger Zelazny Novelette
261 The Terminal Beach J. G. Ballard Novelette
284 Problem Child Arthur Porges Short Story
290 The Wonderful Dog Suit Donald Hall Short Story
293 The Mathenauts Norman Kagan Short Story
310 Family Portrait Morgan Kent Short Story
314 The Red Egg José María Gironella Short Story
326 The Power of Positive Thinking M. E. White Short Story
336 A Living Doll Robert Wallace (II) Short Story
340 Training Talk David R. Bunch Short Story
345 A Miracle Too Many Philip H. Smith & Alan E. Nourse Short Story
359 The Last Lonely Man John Brunner Short Story
377 The Man Who Found Proteus Robert Rohrer Short Story
383 Yachid and Yechida Isaac Bashevis Singer Short Story
392 Summation (10th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F) Judith Merril Essay
397 Honorable Mentions (10th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F) Judith Merril Essay