Four award winning stories and four distinguished runners-up from the 1965 Nebula Awards. Edited by one of the masters, Mr. Damon Knight. This was the first Nebula Awards anthology.

Contents:

• The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth by Roger Zelazny (winner)
• Balanced Ecology by James H. Schmitz
• "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison (winner)
• He Who Shapes by Roger Zelazny (winner)
• Computers Don't Argue by Gordon R. Dickson
• Becalmed in Hell by Larry Niven
• The Saliva Tree by Brian W. Aldiss (winner)
• The Drowned Giant by J.G. Ballard