Edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss.

The ninth and final volume in this series of annual anthologies of the best SF of the year.

Introduction, by Harry Harrison

"A Scraping at the Bones" by Algis Budrys

"Changelings" by Lisa Tuttle

"The Santa Claus Compromise" by Thomas M. Disch

"A Galaxy Called Rome" by Barry N. Malzberg

"A Twelvemonth" by Peter Redgrove

"The Custodians" by Richard Cowper

"The Linguist" by Stephen Robinett

"Settling the World" by M. John Harrison

"The Chaste Planet" by John Updike

"End Game" by Joe Haldeman

"The Long-Eared Cat that Devoured Philadelphia" by Louis Phillips

"A Dead Singer" by Michael Moorcock

Afterword: "Science Fiction on the Titanic" by Brian W. Aldiss

as: The Year's Best Science Fiction, No.9. London: Orbit, June 1976, 206pp., ISBN: 0-8600-7894-9, pbk.

New York: Bobbs-Merrill, September 1976, 240pp., ISBN: 0-672-52197-0, hbk. Jacket Photograph: Frederick Samperi.

as: The Year's Best Science Fiction, No.9. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, October 1976, 206pp., hbk.

Booklist, 1st October 1975. Review by D. Miller.

Foundation #13, May 1978. Eview by Hilary Bailey.

Kirkus Reviews, 15th August 1976.

New York Times Book Review, 23rd January 1977. Review by Girard Jonas.

The Times Literary Supplement, 14th January 1977, p.42a. Review by Stephen Clark.

Vector #78, November 1976. Review by David Wingrove.