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Best SF: 1972 (also known as The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 6 or The Year's Best SF 1972) is the sixth in the Best SF series edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss, first published in a British edition in 1973 by Sphere Books. The first American (and first hardcover) edition was released later that year by Putnam, with a Berkley paperback following shortly thereafter.

Contents

 * Introduction to Best SF: 1972 (1973) by Harry Harrison
 * "In the Matter of the Assassin Merefirs" (1972) by Ken W. Perdy
 * "As for Our Fatal Continuity ..." (1972) by Brian W. Aldiss
 * "The Old Folks" (1972) by James E. Gunn
 * "From Sea to Shining Sea" (1972) by Jonathan Ela
 * "Weinachtabend" (1971) by Keith Roberts
 * Cartoon: "Invisibility Competition" (1973) by Y. Aratovsky
 * Cartoon: no caption (1973) by O. Tesler
 * Cartoon: no caption (The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 6) (1973) by William Rotsler
 * Cartoon: "Grin and Bear It" (1973) by Lichty
 * "The Years" (1972) by Robert F. Young
 * "Darkness" (1972) by André Carneiro
 * "Cymbal Player" (1972) by Lawrence Sail
 * "Report from the Planet Proteus" (1972) by Lawrence Sail
 * "Columbus on St. Dominica" (1972) by John Cotton
 * "After Death" (1972) by Patricia Beer
 * "Faex Delenda Est" (1972) by Theodore R. Cogswell
 * "Words of Warning" (1972) by Alex Hamilton
 * "Out, Wit!" (1972) by Howard L. Myers
 * "An Imaginary Journey to the Moon" (1972) by Victor Sabah
 * "The Head and the Hand" (1972) by Christopher Priest
 * "Hero" (1972) by Joe W. Haldeman
 * "Afterword: The Year of the Big Spring Clean" (1973) by Brian W. Aldiss