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• xi • Preface (The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 40th Anniversary Anthology) • (1989) • essay by Edward L. Ferman
• xiii • Introduction (The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 40th Anniversary Anthology) • (1989) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 1 • The Cat Hotel • [Gummitch the Cat] • (1983) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 17 • Slow Birds • (1983) • novelette by Ian Watson
• 44 • Judgment Call • (1987) • novelette by John Kessel
• 62 • The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything • (1984) • short story by George Alec Effinger
• 78 • The God Machine • (1985) • short story by Damon Knight
• 82 • Understanding Human Behavior: A Romance of the Rocky Mountains • (1982) • novelette by Thomas M. Disch (variant of Understanding Human Behavior)
• 105 • A Rarebit of Magic • [Kedrigern] • (1983) • short story by John Morressy
• 119 • In Midst of Life • (1987) • short story by James Tiptree, Jr.
• 139 • Surviving • (1986) • novelette by Judith Moffett
• 174 • Cage 37 • (1987) • novelette by Wayne Wightman
• 212 • While You're Up • (1988) • short story by Avram Davidson
• 215 • Eidolons • (1988) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 230 • Face Value • (1986) • short story by Karen Joy Fowler
• 243 • Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight • (1987) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 272 • The Boy Who Plaited Manes • (1986) • short story by Nancy Springer
• 285 • Out of All Them Bright Stars • (1985) • short story by Nancy Kress
• 293 • Salvador • (1984) • short story by Lucius Shepard
• 312 • State of the Art • (1985) • short story by Robert Charles Wilson
• 322 • Black Air • (1983) • novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
• 349 • Uncle Tuggs • (1986) • novelette by Michael Shea