random house group ballantine books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition
reprint anthology of five short stories, four novelettes and a novella, introduction & afterword by the editor, overview by the editor of locus
cover art (none; typographical cover unsigned, uncredited)
cover price $1.95
320pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising
refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed,
no priority established nor liable to be, both state first printing, july 1975
and to distinguish also from 10/1976 near-identical ballantine books mmpb second printing on same cat# & sbn, bearing same cover price
introduction (nf) terry carr
we purchased people (short story) frederik pohl, in ''final stage'' eds. edward l. fernan, barry n. malzberg (1974; corrected text 1975)
pale roses (novelette) michael moorcock, in new worlds 7'' eds. hilary bailey, charles platt (1974) with b+w illustration by jim cawthorn
the hole man (ss) larry niven, analog vol. xcii #5, 1/1974 with a b+w illustration by jack gaughan
born with the dead (novella) robert silverberg, f&sf vol.46 #4, 4/1974 the cover story, art by ed emshwiller
the author of the acacia seed and other extracts from the journal of the association of therolinguistics (ss) ursula k. le guin, in ''fellowship of the stars'' ed. terry carr (1974)
dark icarus (ss) bob shaw, science fiction monthly vol.1 #4, 4/1974; if (usa) vol.22 #6, 7-8/1974; if (tandem bre) #4 (ignore this as universal-tandem's tandem books numbering was delusional; vol.22 #6 & 7-8/1974 merkin date on internal masthead)
a little something for us tempunauts (ntte) philip k. dick, in ''final stage'' ibid.
on venus, have we got a rabbi (ntte) william tenn, in ''wandering stars'' eds. jack dann, gardner dozois (1974)
the engine at heartspring's center (ss) roger zelazny, analog vol. xciii #5, 7/1974
if the stars are gods (ntte) gregory benford, gordon eklund, in ''universe 4'' ed. terry carr (1974)
honorable mentions (nf) terry carr
° the science fiction year (nf) charles n. brown (the founder-editor & publisher of locus)
° - omitted from the victor gollancz uk h/cvr edition (this comment is from another edition of this book)
victor gollancz h/cvr first printing, first uk edition, first h/cvr edition
reprint anthology of five short stories, four novelettes and a novella, introduction & afterword by the editor, omits the annual overview by the editor of locus
cover (d-j) art (none; typographical in magenta & black cover on ''gollancz yellow'' field)
cover (d-j) price £3.75
272pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards (this comment is from another edition of this book)