World's Best Science-Fiction: 1966

•  CONTENTS FROM WIKIPEDIA
• "Sunjammer" (Arthur C. Clarke)
• "Calling Dr. Clockwork" (Ron Goulart)
• "Becalmed in Hell" (Larry Niven)
• "Apartness" (Vernor Vinge)
• "Over the River and Through the Woods" (Clifford D. Simak)
• "Planet of Forgetting" (James H. Schmitz)
• "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" (Harlan Ellison)
• "The Decision Makers" (Joseph L. Green)
• "Traveler's Rest" (David I. Masson)
• "Uncollected Works" (Lin Carter)
• "Vanishing Point" (Jonathan Brand)
• "In Our Block" (R. A. Lafferty)
• "Masque of the Red Shift" (Fred Saberhagen)
• "The Captive Djinn" (Christopher Anvil)
• "The Good New Days" (Fritz Leiber)

This volume came out in 1966 and while the rest of the stories are more or less forgotten today except by true SF buffs, the gem is Harlan Ellison's '"Repent, Harlequin,' Said the Tick-Tock Man." Ellison was already well on his way to becoming one of the most lauded and yet controversial science-fiction writers of all-time. 

Also in this collection were Fred Saberhagen and Ron Goulart, both of whom would become favorites of mine in the seventies, and Clifford D. Simak, whose stories I would learn through their fifties old-time radio adaptations.