A anthology of the best short Science Fiction published in 1964. Selected by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg. Includes: Outward bound by Norman Spinrad The Kragen by Jack Vance The master key by Poul Anderson The crime and the glory of commander Suzdal by Cordwainer Smith The graveyard heart by Roger Zelazny Purple priestess of the mad moon by Leigh Brackett The last lonely man by John Brunner Soldier, ask not by Gordon R. Dickson A man of the renaissance by Wyman Guin The dowry of Angyar by Ursula K. Le Guin When the change-winds blow by Fritz Leiber The fiend by Frederik Pohl The life hater by Fred Saberhagen Neighbor by Robert Silverberg Four brands of impossible by Norman Kagan