"In the Matter of the Assassin Merefirs" by Ken W. Purdy
"As for Our Fatal Continuity..." by Brian W. Aldiss
"The Old Folks" by James E. Gunn
"From Sea to Shining Sea" by Jonathan Ela
"Weihnachtabend" by Keith Roberts
three pages of graphics
"The Years" by Robert F. Young
"Darkness" by Andre Carneiro
"Cymbal Player" (poem) by Lawrence Sail
"Columbus on St. Domencia" (poem) by John Cotton
"After Death" (poem) by Patricia Beer
"Faex Delenda Est" by Theodore R. Cogswell
"Words of Warning" by Alex Hamilton
"Out, Wit" by Howard L. Myers
"An Imaginary Journey to the Moon" by Christopher Priest
"Hero" by Joe W. Haldeman
Afterword: "The Year of the Big Spring Clean" by Brian W. Aldiss
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 12th July 1973, 254pp., ISBN: 0-399-11112-3, hbk. Jacket: Paul Lehr.
New York: Berkley, July 1973, 240pp., ISBN: 0-425-02381-0, pbk. Cover: Paul Lehr.
as: The Year's Best Science Fiction, No.6. London: Sphere, August 1973, 236pp., ISBN: 0-7221-4355-6, pbk. Cover: Bruce Pennington. Reprinted January 1975, ISBN: 0-7221-4375-3.
Analog, October 1973, p. 162-164. Review by P. Schuyler
Miller.
"On the whole, it is one of their poorer assemblages - which may be
precisely what they wanted to show about the SF of 1972."
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