The best of everything.The best editor - Ben Bova has won the Hugo Award for Best Editor five years in a row.The best magazine - During those years Analog, previously acclaimed as the best sf magazine in the world, reached heights of prestige that may never again be equaled by any magazine.The best stories - Mr. Bova has chosen the very best stories from the last five years of Analog, including four Hugo and two Nebula winners.Contents:Persephone and Hades by Scott W. SchumackCommon Denominator by David LewisThe Four-Hour Fugue by Alfred BesterHow I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion by Gene WolfeA Song for Lya by George R.R. MartinUnlimited Warfare by Hayford PierceTricentennial by Joe HaldemanThe Present State of Igneos Research by Gordon R. DicksonChild of All Ages by P.J. PlaugerThe Hole Man by Larry NivenOf Mist, and Grass, and Sand by Vonda N. McIntyreA Thing of Beauty by Norman SpinradWhen I Was in Your Mind by Joe AllredUnified Field Theory by Tim JosephHome is the Hangman by Roger Zelazny