When Terry Carr says these 10 science-fiction stories are the best of the year...you better believe it!

We Purchased People, Frederik Pohl: A strange love story of a man and woman whose bodies belonged to the aliens...but whose hearts belonged to each other!

The Hole Man, Larry Niven: Explorers on Mars found a city...abandoned but somehow still functioning!

Born With the Dead, Robert Silverberg: A haunting tale of a man who followed the woman he loved...beyond the gates of death!

The Author of the Acacia Seeds, Ursula K. Le Guin: Of course there are no aliens on Earth...or are there?

On Venus, Have We Got A Rabbi, William Tenn: The First Interstellar Neozionist Conference really had a problem--a delegation from Rigel was seeking admittance. But are giant cockroaches...really Jewish?

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Dark Icarus, Bob Shaw
If the Stars Are Gods, Gordon Eklund and Gregory Benford
The Engine at Heartspring's Center, Roger Zelany
Pale Roses, Michael Moorcock
A Little Something For Us Tempunauts, Philip K. Dick
On Venus, Have We Got a Rabbi, William Tenn
The Engine at Heartspring's Center, Roger Zelazny
If the Stars Are Gods, Gordon Eklund and Gregory Benford
Honorable Mentions - 1974, Terry Carr
The Science Fiction Year (1974), Charles N. Brown