The Best Science Fiction of the Year. #1

Contents:· Introduction · Terry Carr · Occam’s Scalpel · Theodore Sturgeon · The Queen of Air and Darkness · Poul Anderson · In Entropy’s Jaws · Robert Silverberg · The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World · Philip José Farmer · A Meeting with Medusa · Arthur C. Clarke · The Frayed String on the Stretched Forefinger of Time · Lloyd Biggle, Jr. · How Can We Sink When We Can Fly? · Alexei Panshin · No Direction Home · Norman Spinrad · Vaster Than Empires and More Slow · Ursula K. Le Guin · All the Last Wars at Once · George Alec Effinger · The Fourth Profession · Larry Niven