Contents:
Introduction · Terry Carr
Ill Met in Lankhmar [Fafhrd & Gray Mouser] · Fritz Leiber
Slow Sculpture · Theodore Sturgeon
The Missing Man [Rescue Squad] · Katherine MacLean
The Queen of Air and Darkness · Poul Anderson
Good News from the Vatican · Robert Silverberg
A Meeting with Medusa · Arthur C. Clarke
Goat Song · Poul Anderson
When It Changed · Joanna Russ
The Death of Dr. Island · Gene Wolfe
Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand [Snake] · Vonda N. McIntyre
Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death · James Tiptree, Jr.
Born with the Dead · Robert Silverberg
If the Stars Are Gods · Gordon Eklund & Gregory Benford
The Day Before the Revolution · Ursula K. Le Guin