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The 1972 Annual World’s Best SF, sometimes called Donald A. Wollheim Presents The 1972 Annual World’s Best SF, and also published under the title Wollheim’s World’s Best SF Series One, is the first book in The Annual World's Best SF anthology series from DAW Books. It was edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha in 1972, and in it Wollheim presents what he regarded as the fourteen best short stories and novellas from the year 1971. The book includes a cover painting by John Schoenherr, and an introduction from Wollheim.

Contents

“The Fourth Profession” by Larry Niven
“Gleepsite” by Joanna Russ
“The Bear With The Knot on His Tail” by Stephen Tall
“The Sharks of Pentreath” by Michael G. Coney
“A Little Knowledge” by Poul Anderson
“Real-Time World” by Christopher Priest
“All Pieces of a River Shore” by R. A. Lafferty
“With Friends Like These. . . ” by Alan Dean Foster
“Aunt Jennie’s Tonic” by Leonard Tushnet
“Timestorm” by Eddy C. Bertin
“Transit of Earth” by Arthur C. Clarke
“Gehenna” by Barry Malzberg
“One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty” by Harlan Ellison
“Occam’s Scalpel” by Theodore Sturgeon