The best of everything.
The best editor - Ben Bova has won the Hugo Award for Best Editor five years in a row.

The best magazine - During those years Analog, previously acclaimed as the best sf magazine in the world, reached heights of prestige that may never again be equaled by any magazine.

The best stories - Mr. Bova has chosen the very best stories from the last five years of Analog, including four Hugo and two Nebula winners.

Contents:

Persephone and Hades by Scott W. Schumack
Common Denominator by David Lewis
The Four-Hour Fugue by Alfred Bester
How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion by Gene Wolfe
A Song for Lya by George R.R. Martin
Unlimited Warfare by Hayford Pierce
Tricentennial by Joe Haldeman
The Present State of Igneos Research by Gordon R. Dickson
Child of All Ages by P.J. Plauger
The Hole Man by Larry Niven
Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand by Vonda N. McIntyre
A Thing of Beauty by Norman Spinrad
When I Was in Your Mind by Joe Allred
Unified Field Theory by Tim Joseph
Home is the Hangman by Roger Zelazny