"Welcome to the Standard Nightmare" by Robert Sheckley
"Serpent Burning on an Alter" by Brian W. Aldiss
"We Are Very Happy Here" by Joe W. Haldeman
"The Birds" by Thomas M. Disch
"The Wind and the Rain" by Robert Silverberg
"Ten Years Ago..." by Max Beerbohm
"Parthen" by R.A. Lafferty
"The Man Who Collected the First of September 1973" by Tor Age Bringsvaerd
"Captain Nemo's Last Adventure" by Josef Nesvadba
"La Befana" by Gene Wolfe"
"A Curse" (poem) by W. H. Auden
"Auto-Apotheosis" (poem) by Anthony Haden Guest
"Two Poems" by William Jon Watkins
"Sport" by Steven Utley
"The Window in Dante's Hell" by Michael Bishop
"Sister Francetta and the Pig Baby" by Kenneth Bernard
"Escape" by Ilya Varshavsky
"Early Bird" by Theodore R. Cogswell and Theodore L. Thomas
Afterword: "The Wizard and the Plumber" by Brian W. Aldiss
New York: G.P. Putnam's, 1974, 238pp., ISBN: 0-399-11301-0, hbk.
as: The Year's Best Science Fiction, No.7. London: Sphere, April 1975, 174pp., ISBN: 0-7221-4361-3, pbk. Note: Omits the Afterword and five stories (Everything after * above).
New York: Berkley, June 1974, 255pp., ISBN: 0-425-02581-0, pbk.
Booklist, 15th September 1974.
Kirkus Reviews, 15th May 1974.
Locus #174, 3rd June 1975. Review by Charles N. Brown
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1975. Review
by Richard Delap.
Best SF Series