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• xiii • Introduction (From Here to Forever) • (1982) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 4 • Born of Man and Woman • (1950) • short story by Richard Matheson
• 9 • The Luckiest Man in Denv • (1952) • short story by C. M. Kornbluth
• 22 • Common Time • (1953) • short story by James Blish
• 44 • My Boy Friend's Name Is Jello • (1954) • short story by Avram Davidson
• 51 • The First Canticle • [Saint Leibowitz] • (1955) • novelette by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (variant of A Canticle for Leibowitz)
• 74 • Nobody Bothers Gus • [Gus] • (1955) • short story by Algis Budrys
• 89 • Flowers for Algernon • (1959) • novelette by Daniel Keyes
• 119 • The Moon Moth • (1961) • novelette by Jack Vance
• 154 • The Library of Babel • (1998) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of La biblioteca de Babel 1941)
• 165 • Dune (excerpt) • [Dune] • (1982) • short fiction by Frank Herbert (variant of From Dune)
• 188 • Light of Other Days • [Slow Glass] • (1966) • short story by Bob Shaw
• 198 • The First Sally (A), or Trurl's Electronic Bard • [Cyberiada (The Cyberiad)] • (1974) • short story by
  Stanisław Lem^?Stanislaw Lem
  (trans. of
  Wyprawa pierwsza A, czyli Elektrybałt Trurla^?Wyprawa pierwsza A, czyli Elektrybalt Trurla
  1965) [as by Stanislaw Lem]
• 211 • The Heat Death of the Universe • (1967) • short story by Pamela Zoline
• 227 • The Planners • (1968) • short story by Kate Wilhelm
• 244 • The Dance of the Changer and the Three • (1968) • short story by Terry Carr
• 260 • The Last Flight of Doctor Ain • short story by James Tiptree, Jr. (variant of The Last Flight of Dr. Ain 1969)
• 269 • Where No Sun Shines • (1970) • short story by Gardner Dozois
• 280 • The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories • [Archipelago] • (1970) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 298 • Angouleme • (1971) • short story by Thomas M. Disch
• 315 • Gather Blue Roses • (1972) • short story by Pamela Sargent
• 322 • With a Finger in My I • (1972) • short story by David Gerrold
• 335 • Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand • [Snake] • (1973) • novelette by Vonda N. McIntyre
• 357 • Air Raid • (1977) • short story by John Varley
• 373 • Uncoupling • (1975) • short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• 385 • Rogue Tomato • (1975) • short story by Michael Bishop
• 399 • This Tower of Ashes • [Thousand Worlds] • (1976) • short story by George R. R. Martin
• 418 • Particle Theory • (1977) • short story by Edward Bryant
• 442 • View from a Height • (1978) • short story by Joan D. Vinge
• 458 • The Word Sweep • (1979) • short story by George Zebrowski
• 471 • The World Science Fiction Convention of 2080 • (1980) • short story by Ian Watson
• 477 • Abominable • (1980) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
• 490 • Exposures • (1981) • short story by Gregory Benford
• 505 • Schrödinger's Kitten • [Budayeen] • (1988) • novelette by George Alec Effinger