Search Worlds Without End

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (World's Best Science Fiction: 1965) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
• Greenplace - (1964) - shortstory by Tom Purdom
• Men of Good Will - (1964) - shortstory by Ben Bova and Myron R. Lewis
• Bill for Delivery - [Federation of Humanity] - (1964) - shortstory by Christopher Anvil
• Four Brands of Impossible - (1964) - novelette by Norman Kagan
• A Niche in Time - (1964) - shortstory by William F. Temple
• Sea Wrack - (1964) - novelette by Edward Jesby
• For Every Action - (1964) - shortstory by C. C. MacApp
• Vampires Ltd. - (1964) - shortstory by Josef Nesvadba (trans. of Upir ltd 1962)
• The Last Lonely Man - (1964) - shortstory by John Brunner
• The Star Party - (1964) - shortstory by Robert Lory
• The Weather in the Underworld - (1964) - shortstory by Colin Free
• Oh, to Be a Blobel! - (1964) - novelette by Philip K. Dick
• The Unremembered - (1964) - shortstory by Edward Mackin
• What Happened to Sergeant Masuro? - novelette by Harry Mulisch (trans. of Wat Gebeurde er met Sergeant Massuro? 1957)
• Now Is Forever - (1964) - shortstory by Thomas M. Disch
• The Competitors - (1964) - novelette by Jack B. Lawson
• When the Change-Winds Blow - (1964) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (World's Best Science Fiction: 1966) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
• Sunjammer - (1964) - novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
• Calling Dr. Clockwork - (1965) - shortstory by Ron Goulart
• Becalmed in Hell - (1965) - shortstory by Larry Niven
• Apartness - (1965) - novelette by Vernor Vinge
• Over the River and Through the Woods - (1965) - shortstory by Clifford D. Simak
• Planet of Forgetting - (1965) - novelette by James H. Schmitz
• "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman - (1965) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Decision Makers - (1965) - novelette by Joseph Green
• Traveler's Rest - (1965) - shortstory by David I. Masson
• Uncollected Works - (1965) - shortstory by Lin Carter
• Vanishing Point - (1965) - novelette by Jonathan Brand
• In Our Block - (1965) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• Masque of the Red Shift - (1965) - novelette by Fred Saberhagen
• The Captive Djinn - (1965) - shortstory by Christopher Anvil
• The Good New Days - (1965) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (World's Best Science Fiction: 1967) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
• We Can Remember It for You Wholesale - (1966) - novelette by Philip K. Dick
• Light of Other Days - (1966) - shortstory by Bob Shaw
• The Keys to December - (1966) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
• Nine Hundred Grandmothers - (1966) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• Bircher - (1966) - novelette by A. A. Walde
• Behold the Man - (1966) - novella by Michael Moorcock
• Bumberboom - (1966) - novelette by Avram Davidson
• Day Million - (1966) - shortstory by Frederik Pohl
• The Wings of a Bat - (1966) - novelette by Paul Ash
• The Man from When - (1966) - shortstory by Dannie Plachta
• Amen and Out - (1966) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• For a Breath I Tarry - (1966) - novelette by Roger Zelazny

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (World's Best Science Fiction: 1968) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
• See Me Not - (1967) - novelette by Richard Wilson
• Driftglass - (1967) - shortstory by Samuel R. Delany
• Ambassador to Verdammt - (1967) - shortstory by Colin Kapp
• The Man Who Never Was - (1967) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• The Billiard Ball - (1967) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• Hawksbill Station - (1967) - novella by Robert Silverberg
• The Number You Have Reached - (1967) - shortstory by Thomas M. Disch
• The Man Who Loved the Faioli - (1967) - shortstory by Roger Zelazny
• Population Implosion - (1967) - novelette by Andrew J. Offutt
• I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream - (1967) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Sword Swallower - (1967) - novelette by Ron Goulart
• Coranda - (1967) - novelette by Keith Roberts
• Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne - (1967) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• Handicap - (1967) - novelette by Larry Niven
• Full Sun - (1967) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• It's Smart to Have an English Address - (1967) - shortstory by D. G. Compton

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (World's Best Science Fiction 1969) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
• Street of Dreams, Feet of Clay - (1967) - novelette by Robert Sheckley
• Backtracked - (1968) - shortstory by Burt K. Filer
• Kyrie - (1968) - shortstory by Poul Anderson
• Going Down Smooth - (1968) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• The Worm That Flies - (1968) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• Masks - (1968) - shortstory by Damon Knight
• Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones - (1968) - novelette by Samuel R. Delany
• HEMEAC - (1968) - shortstory by E. G. Von Wald
• The Cloudbuilders - (1968) - novelette by Colin Kapp
• This Grand Carcass - (1968) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• A Visit to Cleveland General - (1968) - shortstory by Sydney J. Van Scyoc
• The Selchey Kids - (1968) - novelette by Laurence Yep
• Welcome to the Monkey House - (1968) - shortstory by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• The Dance of the Changer and the Three - (1968) - shortstory by Terry Carr
• Sword Game - (1968) - shortstory by H. H. Hollis
• Total Environment - (1968) - novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
• The Square Root of Brain - (1968) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
• Starsong - (1968) - shortstory by Fred Saberhagen
• Fear Hound - (1968) - novelette by Katherine MacLean

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (World's Best Science Fiction: 1970) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
• A Man Spekith - (1969) - novelette by Richard Wilson
• After the Myths Went Home - (1969) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• Death by Ecstasy - (1969) - novella by Larry Niven
• One Sunday in Neptune - (1969) - shortstory by Alexei Panshin
• For the Sake of Grace - (1969) - novelette by Suzette Haden Elgin
• Your Haploid Heart - (1969) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Therapy 2000 - (1969) - shortstory by Keith Roberts
• Sixth Sense - (1969) - shortstory by Michael G. Coney
• A Boy and His Dog - (1969) - novella by Harlan Ellison
• And So Say All of Us - (1969) - shortstory by Bruce McAllister
• Ship of Shadows - (1969) - novella by Fritz Leiber
• Nine Lives - (1969) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Big Flash - (1969) - novelette by Norman Spinrad

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (World's Best Science Fiction: 1971) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
• Slow Sculpture - (1970) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• Bird in the Hand - (1970) - novelette by Larry Niven
• Ishmael in Love - (1970) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• Invasion of Privacy - (1970) - novelette by Bob Shaw
• Waterclap - (1970) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• Continued on Next Rock - (1970) - novelette by R. A. Lafferty
• The Thing in the Stone - (1970) - novelette by Clifford D. Simak
• Nobody Lives on Burton Street - (1970) - shortstory by Gregory Benford
• Whatever Became of the McGowans? - (1970) - novelette by Michael G. Coney
• The Last Time Around - (1968) - novelette by Arthur Sellings
• Greyspun's Gift - (1970) - shortstory by Neal Barrett, Jr.
• The Shaker Revival - (1970) - novelette by Gerald Jonas
• Dear Aunt Annie - (1970) - novelette by Gordon Eklund
• Confessions - (1970) - novelette by Ron Goulart
• Gone Are the Lupo - (1970) - shortstory by H. B. Hickey

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The 1972 Annual World's Best SF) - (1972) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• The Fourth Profession - (1971) - novelette by Larry Niven
• Gleepsite - (1971) - shortstory by Joanna Russ
• The Bear with the Knot on His Tail - (1971) - novelette by Stephen Tall
• The Sharks of Pentreath - (1971) - shortstory by Michael G. Coney
• A Little Knowledge - (1971) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• Real-Time World - (1971) - novelette by Christopher Priest
• All Pieces of a River Shore - (1970) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• With Friends Like These... - (1971) - shortstory by Alan Dean Foster
• Aunt Jennie's Tonic - (1971) - shortstory by Leonard Tushnet
• Timestorm - (1971) - shortstory by Eddy C. Bertin (trans. of Tijdstorm)
• Transit of Earth - (1971) - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
• Gehenna - (1971) - shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg
• One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty - (1970) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Occam's Scalpel - (1971) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The 1973 Annual World's Best SF) - (1973) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• Goat Song - (1972) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• The Man Who Walked Home - (1972) - shortstory by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Oh, Valinda! - (1972) - novelette by Michael G. Coney
• The Gold at the Starbow's End - (1972) - novella by Frederik Pohl
• To Walk a City's Street - (1972) - shortstory by Clifford D. Simak
• Rorqual Maru - (1972) - novelette by T. J. Bass
• Changing Woman - (1972) - shortstory by W. Macfarlane
• "Willie's Blues" - (1972) - novelette by Robert J. Tilley
• Long Shot - (1972) - shortstory by Vernor Vinge
• Thus Love Betrays Us - (1972) - shortstory by Phyllis MacLennon

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The 1974 Annual World's Best SF) - (1974) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• A Suppliant in Space - (1973) - novelette by Robert Sheckley
• Parthen - (1973) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• Doomship - [Cuckoo] - (1973) - novella by Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson
• Weed of Time - (1970) - shortstory by Norman Spinrad
• A Modest Genius - (1973) - shortstory by Vadim Shefner (trans. of 1963)
• The Deathbird - (1973) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• Evane - (1973) - shortstory by E. C. Tubb
• Moby, Too - (1973) - novelette by Gordon Eklund
• Death and Designation Among the Asadi - (1973) - novella by Michael Bishop
• Construction Shack - (1973) - shortstory by Clifford D. Simak

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The 1975 Annual World's Best SF) - (1975) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• A Song for Lya - (1974) - novella by George R. R. Martin
• Deathsong - (1974) - novella by Sydney J. Van Scyoc
• A Full Member of the Club - (1974) - novelette by Bob Shaw
• The Sun's Tears - (1974) - shortstory by Brian Stableford
• The Gift of Garigolli - (1974) - novelette by C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl
• The Four-Hour Fugue - (1974) - shortstory by Alfred Bester
• Twig - (1974) - novelette by Gordon R. Dickson
• Cathadonian Odyssey - (1974) - shortstory by Michael Bishop
• The Bleeding Man - (1974) - novelette by Craig Strete
• Stranger in Paradise - (1974) - novelette by Isaac Asimov

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The 1976 Annual World's Best SF) - (1976) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• Catch That Zeppelin! - (1975) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
• The Peddler's Apprentice - (1975) - novelette by Joan D. Vinge and Vernor Vinge
• The Bees of Knowledge - (1975) - novelette by Barrington J. Bayley
• The Storms of Windhaven - (1975) - novella by George R. R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle
• The Engineer and the Executioner - (1975) - novelette by Brian Stableford
• Allegiances - (1975) - novella by Michael Bishop
• Child of All Ages - (1975) - shortstory by P. J. Plauger
• Helbent 4 - (1975) - novelette by Stephen Robinett
• The Protocols of the Elders of Britain - (1974) - shortstory by John Brunner
• The Custodians - (1975) - novelette by Richard Cowper

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The 1977 Annual World's Best SF) - (1977) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• Appearance of Life - (1976) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• Overdrawn at the Memory Bank - (1976) - novelette by John Varley
• Those Good Old Days of Liquid Fuel - (1976) - shortstory by Michael G. Coney
• The Hertford Manuscript - (1976) - novelette by Richard Cowper
• Natural Advantage - (1976) - shortstory by Lester del Rey
• The Bicentennial Man - (1976) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• The Cabinet of Oliver Naylor - (1976) - novelette by Barrington J. Bayley
• My Boat - (1976) - shortstory by Joanna Russ
• Houston, Houston, Do You Read? - (1976) - novella by James Tiptree, Jr.
• I See You - (1976) - shortstory by Damon Knight

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The 1978 Annual World's Best SF) - (1978) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• In the Hall of the Martian Kings - (1976) - novella by John Varley
• A Time to Live - (1977) - shortstory by Joe Haldeman
• The House of Compassionate Sharers - (1977) - novelette by Michael Bishop
• Particle Theory - (1977) - shortstory by Edward Bryant
• The Taste of the Dish and the Savor of the Day - (1977) - novelette by John Brunner
• Jeffty Is Five - (1977) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Screwfly Solution - (1977) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Eyes of Amber - (1977) - novelette by Joan D. Vinge
• Child of the Sun - (1977) - novelette by James E. Gunn
• Brother - (1977) - novelette by Clifford D. Simak

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The 1979 Annual World's Best SF) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• Come to the Party - (1978) - novelette by Frank Herbert and F. M. Busby
• Creator - (1978) - novelette by David J. Lake
• Dance Band on the Titanic - (1978) - novelette by Jack L. Chalker
• Cassandra - (1978) - shortstory by C. J. Cherryh
• In Alien Flesh - (1978) - novelette by Gregory Benford
• SQ - (1978) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Persistence of Vision - (1978) - novella by John Varley
• We Who Stole the Dream - (1978) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Scattershot - (1978) - novelette by Greg Bear
• Carruthers' Last Stand - (1978) - novelette by Dan Henderson

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The 1980 Annual World's Best SF) - (1980) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• The Way of Cross and Dragon - (1979) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
• The Thirteenth Utopia - (1979) - shortstory by S. P. Somtow
• Options - (1979) - novelette by John Varley
• Unaccompanied Sonata - (1979) - shortstory by Orson Scott Card
• The Story Writer - (1979) - novella by Richard Wilson
• Daisy, in the Sun - (1979) - shortstory by Connie Willis
• The Locusts - (1979) - novelette by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
• The Thaw - (1979) - novelette by Tanith Lee
• Out There Where the Big Ships Go - (1979) - novelette by Richard Cowper
• Can These Bones Live? - (1979) - shortstory by Ted Reynolds
• The Extraordinary Voyages of Amélie Bertrand - (1979) - shortstory by Joanna Russ

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The 1981 Annual World's Best SF) - (1981) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• Variation on a Theme from Beethoven - (1980) - novelette by Sharon Webb
• Beatnik Bayou - (1980) - novelette by John Varley
• Elbow Room - (1980) - novelette by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• The Ugly Chickens - (1980) - novelette by Howard Waldrop
• Prime Time - (1980) - shortstory by Norman Spinrad
• Nightflyers - (1980) - novella by George R. R. Martin
• A Spaceship Built of Stone - (1980) - shortstory by Lisa Tuttle
• Window - (1980) - shortstory by Bob Leman
• The Summer Sweet, the Winter Wild - (1980) - shortstory by Michael G. Coney
• Achronos - (1980) - shortstory by Lee Killough

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The 1982 Annual World's Best SF) - (1982) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• Blind Spot - (1981) - shortstory by Jayge Carr
• Highliner - (1981) - novelette by C. J. Cherryh
• The Pusher - (1981) - shortstory by John Varley
• Polyphemus - (1981) - novella by Michael Shea
• Absent Thee from Felicity Awhile... - (1981) - shortstory by S. P. Somtow
• Out of the Everywhere - (1981) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Slac// - (1981) - novelette by Michael P. Kube-McDowell
• The Cyphertone - (1981) - shortstory by S. C. Sykes
• Through All Your Houses Wandering - (1981) - novella by Ted Reynolds
• The Last Day of Christmas - (1981) - novelette by David J. Lake

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The 1983 Annual World's Best SF) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• The Scourge - (1982) - novella by James White
• A Letter from the Clearys - (1982) - shortstory by Connie Willis
• Farmer on the Dole - (1982) - novelette by Frederik Pohl
• Playing the Game - (1982) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
• Pawn's Gambit - (1982) - novelette by Timothy Zahn
• The Comedian - (1982) - shortstory by Tim Sullivan
• Written in Water - (1982) - shortstory by Tanith Lee
• Souls - (1982) - novella by Joanna Russ
• Swarm - (1982) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
• Peg-Man - (1982) - shortstory by Rudy Rucker

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The 1984 Annual World's Best SF) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• Blood Music - (1983) - novelette by Greg Bear
• Potential - (1983) - shortstory by Isaac Asimov
• Knight of Shallows - (1983) - novelette by Rand B. Lee
• Spending a Day at the Lottery Fair - (1983) - shortstory by Frederik Pohl
• In the Face of My Enemy - (1983) - novella by Joseph H. Delaney
• The Nanny - (1983) - novelette by Thomas Wylde
• The Leaves of October - (1983) - novelette by Don Sakers
• As Time Goes By - (1983) - shortstory by Tanith Lee
• The Harvest of Wolves - (1983) - shortstory by Mary Gentle
• Homefaring - (1983) - novella by Robert Silverberg

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The 1985 Annual World's Best SF) - (1985) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• The Picture Man - (1984) - shortstory by John Dalmas
• Cash Crop - (1984) - novelette by Connie Willis
• We Remember Babylon - (1984) - novelette by Ian Watson
• What Makes Us Human - (1984) - novelette by Stephen R. Donaldson
• Salvador - (1984) - shortstory by Lucius Shepard
• Press Enter [] - (1984) - novella by John Varley
• The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything - (1984) - shortstory by George Alec Effinger
• Bloodchild - (1984) - novelette by Octavia E. Butler
• The Coming of the Goonga - (1984) - shortstory by Gary W. Shockley
• Medra - (1984) - shortstory by Tanith Lee

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The 1986 Annual World's Best SF) - (1986) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• Earthgate - (1985) - novelette by J. Brian Clarke
• On the Dream Channel Panel - (1985) - shortstory by Ian Watson
• The Gods of Mars - (1985) - novelette by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann and Michael Swanwick
• The Jaguar Hunter - (1985) - novelette by Lucius Shepard
• Sailing to Byzantium - (1985) - novella by Robert Silverberg
• Webrider - (1985) - shortstory by Jayge Carr
• With Virgil Oddum at the East Pole - (1985) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Curse of Kings - (1985) - novella by Connie Willis
• Fermi and Frost - (1985) - shortstory by Frederik Pohl
• Pots - (1985) - novelette by C. J. Cherryh

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The 1987 Annual World's Best SF) - (1987) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• Permafrost - (1986) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
• Timerider - (1986) - novelette by Doris Egan
• Pretty Boy Crossover - (1986) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
• R & R - (1986) - novella by Lucius Shepard
• Lo, How an Oak E'er Blooming - (1986) - shortstory by Suzette Haden Elgin
• Dream in a Bottle - (1986) - shortstory by Jerry Meredith and D. E. Smirl
• Into Gold - (1986) - novelette by Tanith Lee
• The Lions Are Asleep This Night - (1986) - novelette by Howard Waldrop
• Against Babylon - (1986) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
• Strangers on Paradise - (1986) - shortstory by Damon Knight

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The 1988 Annual World's Best SF) - (1988) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• The Pardoner's Tale - (1987) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• Rachel in Love - (1987) - novelette by Pat Murphy
• America - (1987) - novelette by Orson Scott Card
• Crying in the Rain - (1987) - shortstory by Tanith Lee
• The Sun Spider - (1987) - novelette by Lucius Shepard
• Angel - (1987) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
• Forever Yours, Anna - (1987) - shortstory by Kate Wilhelm
• Second Going - (1987) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Dinosaurs - (1987) - novelette by Walter Jon Williams
• All Fall Down - (1987) - novelette by Don Sakers

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Isaac Asimov
• The Giving Plague - (1988) - shortstory by David Brin
• Peaches for Mad Molly - (1988) - novelette by Steven Gould
• Shaman - (1988) - novelette by John Shirley
• Schrödinger's Kitten - (1988) - novelette by George Alec Effinger
• The Flies of Memory - (1988) - novella by Ian Watson
• Skin Deep - (1988) - shortstory by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• A Madonna of the Machine - (1988) - novelette by Tanith Lee
• Waiting for the Olympians - (1988) - novelette by Frederik Pohl
• Ain't Nothin' But a Hound Dog - (1988) - shortstory by B. W. Clough
• Adrift Among the Ghosts - (1988) - shortstory by Jack L. Chalker
• Ripples in the Dirac Sea - (1988) - shortstory by Geoffrey A. Landis

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The 1990 Annual World's Best SF) - essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• Alphas - (1989) - novelette by Gregory Benford
• The Magic Bullet - (1989) - novelette by Brian Stableford
• North of the Abyss - (1989) - novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
• Chiprunner - (1989) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• Abe Lincoln in McDonald's - (1989) - shortstory by James Morrow
• Death Ship - (1989) - shortfiction by Barrington J. Bayley
• In Translation - (1989) - shortfiction by Lisa Tuttle
• A Sleep and a Forgetting - (1989) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• Not Without Honor - (1989) - novelette by Judith Moffett
• Dogwalker - (1989) - novelette by Orson Scott Card
• Surrender - (1989) - novelette by Lucius Shepard
• War Fever - (1989) - novelette by J. G. Ballard