Vivid writing, compelling plots, and boundless imagination - these are the distinctive qualities of the Hugo award-winning magazine Fantasy and Science Fiction. For this fourteenth annual collection of stories from the magazine, editor and science fiction writer Avram Davidson gathered to-gether works by the most intriguing authors of the genre:
Ron Goulart reduces automated law enforcement to a state of absurdity, in a story that is not funny at all. . . .
With an icy touch, England’s J. G. Ballard tells of the day the earth be-gan to crystallize. . . .
Jack Sharkey’s hero was thirty-six years old, but suddenly he looked seventy. . . .
Ron Webb opens a bottle of Scotch and out pops Jeannie, the girl with the hundred proof eyes. . . .
. . . and thirteen other tales of today and tomorrow for fans of science fiction and fantasy.

- Avram Davidson SACHEVERELL
- Jack Sharkey TRADE-IN
- J. G. Ballard THE ILLUMINATED MAN
- Wilma Shore A BULLETIN FROM THE TRUSTEES OF THE INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED RESEARCH
- Kit Reed AUTOMATIC TIGER
- T. P. Caravan THE COURT OF TARTARY
- Terry Carr TOUCHSTONE
- Allen Kim Lang THAW AND SERVE
- Thomas M. Disch NADA
- Ron Goulart INTO THE SHOP
- Roger Zelazny A ROSE FOR ECCLESIASTES
- Eric St. Clair OLSEN AND THE GULL
- Louis J. A. Adams DARK CONCEPTION
- Alan E. Nourse THE COMPLEAT CONSUMATORS
- S. S. Johnson THE HOUSE BY THE CRAB APPLE TREE
- Ron Webb THE GIRL WITH THE HUNDRED PROOF EYES
- James Ransom FRED ONE