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Best SF: 1973 (also known as The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 7) is the seventh in the Best SF series edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss, first published in an American edition in 1974 by Berkley. The first hardcover edition was released later that year by Putnam with a Sphere Books paperback following shortly thereafter.

Contents

 * Introduction to Best SF: 1973 (1974) by Harry Harrison
 * "Roller Ball Murder" (1973) by William Harrison
 * "Mason's Life" (1972) by Kingsley Amis
 * "Welcome to the Standard Nightmare" (1973) by Robert Sheckley
 * "Serpent Burning on an Altar" (1973) by Brian W. Aldiss
 * "We Are Very Happy Here" (1973) by Joe W. Haldeman
 * "The Birds" (1973) by Thomas M. Disch
 * "The Wind and the Rain" (1973) by Robert Silverberg
 * "Ten Years Ago ..." (1972) by Max Beerbohm
 * "Parthen" (1973) by R. A. Lafferty
 * "The Man Who Collected the First of September 1973" (1972) by Tor Åge Bringsværd
 * "Captain Nemo's Last Adventure" (1973) by Josef Nesvadba
 * "La Befana" (1973) by Gene Wolfe
 * "A Curse" (1972) by W. H. Auden
 * "Auto-Apotheosis" (1972) by Anthony Haden-Guest
 * "Two Poems" (1973) by William John Watkins
 * "Sport" (1973) by Steven Utley
 * "The Window in Dante's Hell" (1973) by Michael Bishop
 * "Sister Francetta and Pig Baby" (1973) by Kenneth Bernard
 * "Escape" (1968) by Ilya Varshavsky
 * "Early Bird" (1973) by Theodore R. Cogswell and Theodore L. Thomas
 * "Afterword: The Wizard and the Plumber" (1974) by Brian W. Aldiss