"An excellent anthology, packed with fine stuff and including many good stories originally published outside the science fiction magazines." - Fantasy & Scince Fiction.

This acclaim was typical of many fine reviews of last year's compilation of the WORLD'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, and it is equally applicable to the current volume, in which nearly half of the stories will be new even to regular readers of the American science fiction magazines.

Here are stories of space exploration, strange human societies of tomorrow, adventures in the far future and compelling visions of world apocalypse. These are the finest stories of modern science fiction, a rich treasury of wonder to stay in your memory while the future continues to become the present.

Contents:

A Man Spekith by Richard Wilson
After the Myths Went Home by Robert Silverberg
Death by Ecstasy by Larry Niven
One Sunday in Neptune by Alexei Panshin
For the Sake of Grace by Suzette Haden Elgin
Your Haploid Heart by James Tiptree, Jr.
Therapy 2000 by Keith Roberts
Sixth Sense by Michael G. Coney
A Boy and His Dog by Harlan Ellison
And So Say All of Us by Bruce McAllister
Ship of Shadows by Fritz Lieber
Nine Lives by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Big Flash by Norman Spinrad