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• 11 • Oneiromachia • (1961) • poem by Conrad Aiken
• 12 • A Passage from the Stars • (1961) • short story by Kaatje Hurlbut
• 26 • Among the Dangs (excerpt) • short fiction by George P. Elliott
• 54 • Immediately Yours • (1961) • short story by Robert Beverly Hale
• 72 • Parky • (1961) • short story by David Rome
• 80 • The Fastest Gun Dead • [Dr. Hiram Pertwee] • (1961) • short story by Julian F. Grow
• 92 • All the Tea in China • (1961) • short story by Reginald Bretnor [as by R. Bretnor]
• 103 • The Portobello Road • (1956) • novelette by Muriel Spark
• 126 • Ottmar Balleau X 2 • (1961) • short story by George Bamber
• 138 • The Dandelion Girl • (1961) • short story by Robert F. Young
• 153 • Nightmare in Time • (1962) • short story by Fredric Brown (variant of The End 1961)
• 156 • Three Prologues and an Epilogue • (1961) • poem by John Dos Passos
• 163 • It Becomes Necessary • (1961) • short story by Ward Moore
• 175 • My Trial As a War Criminal • (1949) • short story by Leo Szilard
• 185 • A Prize for Edie • (1961) • short story by J. F. Bone
• 190 • Freedom • (1961) • novelette by Mack Reynolds
• 219 • High Barbary • (1961) • short story by Lawrence Durrell
• 224 • The Quaker Cannon • (1961) • novelette by C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl
• 251 • Quake, Quake, Quake (excerpt) • (1961) • poem by Paul Dehn
• 251 •  Quake, Quake, Quake • (1961) • interior artwork by Edward Gorey
• 254 • Judas Bomb • (1961) • short story by Kit Reed
• 264 • A Small Miracle of Fishhooks and Straight Pins • (1961) • short story by David R. Bunch
• 267 • The Tunnel Ahead • (1961) • short story by Alice Glaser
• 276 • Extraterrestrial Trilogue on Terran Self-Destruction • (1961) • poem by Sheri S. Tepper [as by Sheri S. Eberhart]
• 279 • The Countdown • (1961) • short story by John Haase
• 288 • The Beat Cluster • (1961) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 303 • In Tomorrow's Little Black Bag • (1962) • essay by James Blish
• 310 • The Ship Who Sang • [The Ship Who ...] • (1961) • novelette by Anne McCaffrey
• 331 • A Planet Named Shayol • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1961) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
• 371 • The Asteroids, 2194 • [Troons] • (1960) • short story by John Wyndham
• 387 • The Long Night • [The Exploits of Argo • 2] • (1961) • short story by Ray Russell
• 389 • To an Astronaut Dying Young • (1961) • poem by Maxine W. Kumin
• 391 • Summation: S-F, 1961 • (1962) • essay by Judith Merril
• 393 • Books (The 7th Annual of the Year's Best S-F) • (1962) • essay by Anthony Boucher
• 396 • Honorable Mentions (The 7th Annual of the Year's Best S-F) • (1962) • essay by Judith Merril