This book was simultaneously released to the trade in hardcover and trade paperback, and through the Science Fiction Book Club with printing information removed. Tight, clean, flat, square, sharp and crisp book in nearly flawless DJ. 

Gardner Dozois, editor of many anthologies, collects important novellas in Science Fiction the 1960's to the 1980's.

Contents
ix • Preface (Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction) • (1994) • essay by Gardner Dozois
1 • The Miracle Workers • (1958) • novella by Jack Vance (aka The Miracle-Workers)
65 • The Longest Voyage • (1960) • novelette by Poul Anderson
94 • On the Storm Planet • [Casher O'Neill] • (1965) • novella by Cordwainer Smith
164 • The Star Pit • (1967) • novella by Samuel R. Delany
221 • Total Environment • (1968) • novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
260 • The Merchants of Venus • [Heechee] • (1972) • novella by Frederik Pohl
321 • The Death of Doctor Island • [Archipelago] • (1973) • novella by Gene Wolfe (aka The Death of Dr. Island)
373 • Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang • (1974) • novella by Kate Wilhelm
415 • Souls • (1982) • novella by Joanna Russ
459 • A Traveler's Tale • (1984) • novella by Lucius Shepard
504 • Sailing to Byzantium • (1985) • novella by Robert Silverberg
561 • Mr. Boy • (1990) • novella by James Patrick Kelly
617 • And Wild for to Hold • (1991) • novella by Nancy Kress