CONTENTS:
• Introduction (Nova 2) • (1972) • essay by Harry Harrison
• Zirn Left Unguarded, the Jenghik Palace in Flames, Jon Westerley Dead • (1972) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• "East Wind, West Wind" • (1972) • novelette by Frank M. Robinson
• The Sumerian Oath • (1972) • short story by Philip José Farmer
• Now+n Now-n • (1972) • novelette by Robert Silverberg (variant of {Now + n, Now - n})
• Two Odysseys Into the Center • (1972) • short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• Darkness • (1972) • short story by André Carneiro (trans. of A Escuridão 1963)
• On the Wheel • (1972) • short story by Damon Knight
• Miss Omega Raven • (1972) • short story by Naomi Mitchison
• The Poet in the Hologram in the Middle of Prime Time • (1972) • short story by Edward Bryant [as by Ed Bryant]
• The Old Folks • (1972) • short story by James E. Gunn
• The Steam-Driven Boy • (1972) • short story by John Sladek
• I Tell You, It's True • (1972) • novelette by Poul Anderson
• And I Have Come Upon This Place by Lost Ways • (1972) • novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• The Ergot Show • (1972) • short story by Brian W. Aldiss