The Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: Ninth Series

• The Science-Fiction Year, by T. E. Dikty
• "2066: Election Day, by Michael Shaara
• "The Mile-Long Spaceship, by Kate Wilhelm
• "The Last Victory, by Tom Godwin
• "Call Me Joe, by Poul Anderson
• "Didn’t He Ramble, by Chad Oliver
• "The Queen’s Messenger, by John J. McGuire
• "The Other People, by Leigh Brackett
• "Into Your Tent I’ll Creep, by Eric Frank Russell
• "Nor Dust Corrupt, by James V. McConnell
• "Nightsound, by Algis Budrys
• "The Tunesmith, by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
• "Hunting Machine, by Carol Emshwiller
• The Science-Fiction Book Index, by Earl Kemp

Anthony Boucher unhappily dismissed this anthology as an "assembly of the tedious, trite and ill-reasoned," excepting only Anderson's story as "firstrate" and the short pieces from Emshwiller, Oliver and Russell as "good (if far from 'best')".[1] Damon Knight singled out the Anderson and Emshwiller stories as "first-rate," dismissing the remainder as "mostly dead-level puzzles of melodramas, each one grayly blending into a hundred similar stories you have read and mildly enjoyed."[2]

• Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 3.
• Contento, William G. "Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections". Archived from the original on 2008-01-07. Retrieved 2008-01-24.