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First published 1968
Publisher Delacorte Press
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Carl Smith
Pages 384
Price $5.95

Notes

The 1970 UK / Mayflower edition (The Best of Sci-Fi 12) does not contain the story "Crab Apple Crisis" by George MacBeth.


"First printing so stated on copyright page. Issued later in Great Britain as The Best of Sci-Fi 12." The 2 copies verified have "First printing—1968". "9778" below "$5.95" price on front flap, and "0868" (indicating published in August 1968) on bottom of back flap of dust jacket. "Jacket design by Carl Smith" on bottom of front flap of jacket.

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
SF 12 Cover 1969 Dell Paperback Anthology 7815 Paul Lehr 384
SF 12 Cover 1969 Dell Paperback Anthology 7815 Paul Lehr 384

Page Title Author(s) Type
9 Introduction: Fish Out of Water, Man Beside Himself Judith Merril Essay
11 The Cinemagicians Tuli Kupferberg Poem
12 In Seclusion Harvey Jacobs Novelette
32 The Food Farm Kit Reed Short Story
42 Gogol's Wife Tommaso Landolfi Short Story
54 The Balloon Donald Barthelme Short Story
60 The Cloud-Sculptors of Coral D J. G. Ballard Short Story
77 Luana Gilbert Thomas Short Story
87 W-a-v-e-r Tuli Kupferberg Poem
89 During the Jurassic John Updike Short Story
94 The Fall of Frenchy Steiner Hilary Bailey Novelette
127 Light of Other Days Bob Shaw Short Story
137 Beyond the Weeds Peter Tate Short Story
154 Crab Apple Crisis George MacBeth Short Story
161 The Primary Education of the Camiroi R. A. Lafferty Short Story
174 When I Was Miss Dow Sonya Dorman Short Story
187 A Vacation on Earth Thomas M. Disch Poem
189 Confluence Brian W. Aldiss Short Story
197 Journal from Ellipsia (excerpt) Hortense Calisher Short Fiction
213 An Ornament to His Profession Charles L. Harness Novelette
256 Narrow Valley R. A. Lafferty Short Story
271 They Do Not Always Remember William S. Burroughs Short Story
274 The Winter Flies Fritz Leiber Short Story
288 When I First Read ... Dick Allen Poem
290 You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe J. G. Ballard Short Story
295 And More Changes Still Henri Michaux Short Story
298 The Other Katherine MacLean Short Story
303 Chicken Icarus Carol Emshwiller Short Story
316 In the Egg Günter Grass Poem
318 The Star-Pit Samuel R. Delany Novella
382 Personal Tuli Kupferberg Short Story