Acknowledgment is made for permission to print the following material:
"The Bleak Shore" by Fritz Leiber. Copyright © 1970 by Fritz Leiber.
"O Ugly Bird!" by Manly Wade Wellman. Copyright © 1951 by Mercury Press, Inc. First appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1951. Reprinted by permission of the author.
"The Power of the Press" by Richard Kearns. Copyright © 1983 by Richard Kearns. First appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Mid-December 1983. Reprinted by permission of the author.
"The Finger" by Naomi Mitchison. Copyright © 1980 by Naomi Mitchison. First published in Edges (Pocket Books). Reprinted by permission of the author and the author's agent, Richard Curtis Associates.
"The Word of Unbinding" by Ursula K. Le Guin. Copyright © 1964, 1975 by Ursula K. Le Guin. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author's agent, Virginia Kidd.
"His Coat So Gay" by Sterling E. Lanier. Copyright © 1970 by Mercury Press, Inc. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1970. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author's agent, Curtis Brown Associates.
"Narrow Valley" by R. A. Lafferty. Copyright © 1966 by Mercury Press, Inc. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 1966. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author's agent, Virginia Kidd.
"Sleep Well of Nights" by Avram Davidson. Copyright © 1978 by Mercury Press, Inc. First appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1978. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author's agent, John Silbersack.
"Armaja Das" by Joe Haldeman. Copyright © 1976 by Joe W. Haldeman. First published in Frights (St. Martin's Press). Reprinted by permission of the author.
"My Boat" by Joanna Russ. Copyright © 1976 by Mercury Press, Inc.; copyright © 1981 by Joanna Russ. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1976. Reprinted by permission of the author.
"The Hag Séleen" by Theodore Sturgeon. Copyright © 1941 by The Conde Nast Publications, Inc. First appeared in Unknown, December 1942. Reprinted by permission of the author.
"The Last Wizard" by Avram Davidson. Copyright © 1972 by Davis Publications, Inc. From Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 1972. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author's agent, John Silbersack.
"The Overworld" by Jack Vance. Copyright © 1965 by Mercury Press, Inc.; © 1966 by Ace Books; © 1977 by Jack Vance for the Underwood-Miller version of Eyes of the Overworld. First appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1965. Reprinted by permission of the author.
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