This is a different series from Gardner Dozois' The Year's Best Science Fiction.

Simon & Schuster, 1964; Dell #9775, May 1965 #9775, Cover photo by Three Lions.; Mayflower-Dell 1967; Mayflower 1970

Includes "Bernie the Faust' by William Tenn; "Fortress Ship" by Fred Saberhagen; "Mr. Waterman;" by Peter Redgrove; "Mrs. Pigafetta Swims Well" by R. Bretnor; "Tree Trunks" by John Gallagher; "They Don't Make Life Like They Used Too" by Alfred Bester; "Great Nebraska Sea" by Allan Danzig; "The Faces Outside" by Bruce McAllister; "A Slight Case of Limbo" by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.; "237 Talking Statues, Etc." by Fritz Leiber; "The Jazz Machine" by Richard Matheson; "Mourning Song" by Charles Beaumont; "Dog Eat Dog' by Jules Feiffer; "The Jewbird" by Bernard Malamud; "On the Fourth Planet" by J. F. Bone; "Poppa Needs Shorts" by Walt & Leigh Richmond; "Double Standard" by Fredric Brown; "Interview" by Frank A. Javor; "Eight O'Clock in the Morning" by Ray Nelson; "Where Is Everybody?" by Ben Bova; "Earth Dwellers" by Andre Maurois; "Nobel Prize Winners" by W. J. J. Gordon; "Hot Planet" by Hal Clement; "IBM" by Mort Gerberg; "Confessions of the First Number" by Cliff Owsley; "Ming Vase" by E. C. Tubb; "A Bargain with Cashel" by Gerald Kersh; "Drunkboat' by Cordwainer Smith; "Summation SF, 1963" by Judith Merril; "Books' by Anthony Boucher; "Honorable Mentions".