The Year's Best Science Fiction 9

I do not know how to classify or even to describe the work of Edward Gorey, whose verses and pictures so eerily evoke “... feelings of horror, resentment, and pity/For things, which so seldom turn out for the best.” Let me simply say that the most disturbing (and morally instructive) work of pure fantasy in 1963 was Gorey’s three-volume The Vinegar Works (Simon and Schuster).

[Answers to parlor game, in order of listings L. Sprague de Camp, Robert A. Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, Judith Merril, A. & van Vogt.]

Abbreviations:

Amz Amazing Stories

Anal Analog Science Fact & Fiction

All Atlantic Monthly

BW Book Week

CY Catholic Youth

Csmp Cosmopolitan

DC The Diner’s Club Magazine

Dude The Dude

Fant Fantastic

F&SF Fantasy and Science Fiction

Gal Galaxy

Gam Gamma

Gent Gent

GH Good Housekeeping

If If

LHJ Ladies’ Home Journal

McC McCall’s

Mlle Mademoiselle

NL The New Leader

NW New Worlds (British)

Plby Playboy

Rep The Reporter

R&T Road and Track

Rog Rogue

SEP The Saturday Evening Post

SciF Science Fantasy (British)

SSI Short Story International

WoT Worlds of Tomorrow

WRD The Worm Runner’s Digest

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vance aandahl “The Weremartini,” F&SF, Jun.

Brian w. aldiss “Skeleton Crew,” SciF, Dec.

poul anderson “Turning Point,” If, May.

piers anthony “Quinquepedalian,” Amz, Nov.

Christopher anvil “Not in the Literature,” Anal, Mar.

John ashcroft “The Shtarman,” NW, Aug.

isaac asimov “My Son, the Physicist,” F&SF, Apr.

j. G. ballard “The Sherrington Theory,” Amz, Mar.

stephen barr “The Mirror of Gigantic Shadows,” Plby, Sep.

john baxter “Eviction,” NW, Mar.

peter s. beagle “Come, Lady Death,” Atl, Sep.

k. w. Bennett “The Seventeenth Summer,” SciF, Apr.

frank bequaert “Alice Grebel and the Doomsday Machine,” Csmp

jerome bixby “The God-Plllnk,” WoT, Dec.

robert bloch “Beelzebub,” Plby, Dec.

juan bosch “The Indelible Spot,” SEP, Nov. 16.

lyle g. boyd “The Provenance of Swift,” WoT, Feb.

ray bradbury “Bright Phoenix,” F&SF, May;

----------, “To the Chicago Abyss,” in the Machineries of Joy (Simon and Schuster,

1964).

christianna brand “Akin to Love,” Rog, Apr.

fredric brown “It Didn’t Happen,” Plby, Oct

John brunner “Singleminded,” If, May;

----------, “The Totally Rich,” WoT, Jun.

Walter bupp “The Right Time,” Anal, Dec.

otis kidwell burger “The Pleiades,” F&SF, Feb.

Jonathan burke “When I Come Back,” NW, Dec.

alfred chester “The Word,” BW, Dec. 29.

price day “Four O’clock,” DC, Apr.

Harrison Denmark “The Stainless Steel Leech,” Amz, Apr.

philip k. dick “If There Were No Benny Cemoli,” Gal, Dec.

jack egan “Cully,” Amz, Jan.

larry eisenberg “The Fastest Draw,” Amz, Oct

david ely “The Human Factor,” SEP, Nov. 16.

Frederick ely “Chance the Prairie Prey,” Rog, Jul.

Michael fessier “The H. K. Brock,” Rog, Feb.

david e. fisher “Mr. Mateosian and the Chinaman,” Gent, Dec.

Gertrude friedberg “The Short and Happy Death of George Frumkin,” F&SF, Apr.

daniel f. galouye “Recovery Area,” Amz, Feb.;

----------, “Reign of the Telepuppets,” Amz, Aug.

david Gordon “With No Strings Attached,” Anal, Feb.

graham greene Stories in A Sense of Reality (Viking, 1963)

william lindsay gresham “Punch Line,” Rog, Apr.

davis grubb “The Enchanted Room,” GH, Mar.

larry Harris & donald westlake “The Question,” F&SF, Mar.

zenna Henderson “Deluge,” F&SF, Oct.

james leo herlihy “The Astral Body of a U. S. Mail Truck,” Mile, Feb.

P. m. hubbard “The Golden Brick,” F&SF, Jan.

eileen jensen “Androcles and the Librarian,” LHJ, Sep.

ward s. just “The Day the News Managers Quit,” Rep, May.

Herbert d. kastle “The God on the 36th Floor,” Amz, Dec.

daniel keyes “A Jury of Its Peers,” WoT, Aug.

damon knight “The Second-Class Citizen,” If, Nov.

aaron l. kolom “Heavenly Gifts,” WoT, Apr.

keith laumer “It Could Be Anything,” Amz, Jan.

fritz leiber “Game for Motel Room,” F&SF, Mar.

Murray leinster “The Hate Disease,” Anal, Aug.

Magnus ludens “My Lady Selene,” Gal, Apr.

donald malcolm “Twice Bitten,” NW, Feb.

david mason “Road Stop,” If, Jan.

john j. mcguire “Take the Reason Prisoner,” Anal, Nov.

richard mckenna “Hunter, Come Home,” F&SF, Mar.

seaton mckettrig “A World by the Tale,” Anal, Oct.

slawomir mrozek “The Elephant,” Mile, May.

william f. nolan “The Last Three Months,” R&T, Sep.

gerald w. page “The Happy Man,” Anal, Mar.

alexei panshin “Down to the Worlds of Men,” If, JuL

mervyn peake “Same Time, Same Place,” SciF, Aug.

terry prachett “The Hades Business,” SciF, Aug.

Theodore pratt “Robert Robot,” CY, May

robert presslie “No Brother of Mine,” NW, Dec.

ken w. purdy “The Golden Frog,” Plby, Jan.

john rackham “Dossier,” NW, Apr.

rick Raphael “Sonny,” Anal, Apr.;

----------, “The Thirst Quenchers,” Anal, Sep.

mack Reynolds “Expediter,” Anal, May.

david rome “Inside,” SciF, Feb.

james h. schmitz “Ham Sandwich,” Anal, Jun.;

----------, “Oneness,” Anal, May.

eugene s. Schwartz “The Shelter in the Jungle,” NL; SSI, Dec.

jack sharkey “Transient,” Rog, Oct.

Clifford d. simak “New Folks’ Home,” Anal, Jul.

Herbert a. simmons “One Night Stand,” Gam #1.

b. f. skinner “A Christmas Caramel” (a play), WRD, Aug.

henry slesar “The Valley of Good News,” Dude, Mar.

cordwainer smith “Think Blue, Count Two,” Gal, Feb.

albert teichner “Cerebrum,” Amz, Jan.;

----------, “The Forelife Myth,” Font, Jan.

william tenn “The Men in the Walls,” Gal, Oct.

Theodore l. thomas “The Lonely Man,” Gal, Apr.

dobbin thorpe “Minnesota Gothic,” Fant, Jun.

jack vance “Green Magic,” F&SF, Jun.

John j. wells & marion zimmer bradley “Another Rib,” F&SF, Jun.

james white “Counter Security,” F&SF, Feb.

ted white & terry carr “I, Executioner,” If, Mar.

jack williamson “The Masked World,” WoT, Oct

robert f. young “Sweet Tooth,” Gal, Oct.