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• ix • Preface (Explorers: SF Adventures to Far Horizons) • essay by Gardner Dozois
• 1 • The Sentinel • [A Space Odyssey] • (1951) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 9 • Moonwalk • (1952) • novelette by H. B. Fyfe
• 41 • Grandpa • [The Hub] • (1955) • novelette by James H. Schmitz
• 60 • The Red Hills of Summer • (1959) • novelette by Edgar Pangborn
• 90 • The Longest Voyage • (1960) • novelette by Poul Anderson
• 115 • Hot Planet • (1963) • short story by Hal Clement
• 133 • Drunkboat • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1963) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
• 158 • Becalmed in Hell • [Known Space] • (1965) • short story by Larry Niven
• 169 • Nine Hundred Grandmothers • [Habitable Worlds] • (1966) • short story by R. A. Lafferty
• 178 • The Keys to December • (1966) • novelette by Roger Zelazny
• 198 • Vaster Than Empires and More Slow • [Hainish] • (1971) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 222 • A Meeting with Medusa • [A Meeting with Medusa • 1] • (1971) • novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
• 255 • The Man Who Walked Home • (1972) • short story by James Tiptree, Jr.
• 268 • Long Shot • (1972) • short story by Vernor Vinge
• 279 • In the Hall of the Martian Kings • (1976) • novella by John Varley
• 313 • Ginungagap • (1980) • novelette by Michael Swanwick
• 339 • Exploring Fossil Canyon • [Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)] • (1982) • novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
• 359 • Promises to Keep • (1984) • novelette by Jack McDevitt
• 374 • Lieserl • [Xeelee] • (1993) • short story by Stephen Baxter
• 389 • Crossing Chao Meng Fu • (1997) • novelette by G. David Nordley
• 416 • Wang's Carpets • (1995) • novelette by Greg Egan
• 443 • A Dance to Strange Musics • (1998) • novelette by Gregory Benford
• 462 • Approaching Perimelasma • (1998) • novelette by Geoffrey A. Landis