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• 1 • On the Road to Science Fiction: From Heinlein to Here • (1979) • essay by James E. Gunn
• 25 • "All You Zombies—" • (1959) • short story by Robert A. Heinlein (variant of "All You Zombies ...")
• 40 • Reason • [Mike Donovan] • (1941) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 59 • Desertion • [City] • (1944) • short story by Clifford D. Simak
• 73 • Mimsy Were the Borogoves • (1943) • novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
• 107 • The Million-Year Picnic • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of The Million Year Picnic 1946)
• 119 • Thunder and Roses • (1947) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• 143 • That Only a Mother • (1948) • short story by Judith Merril
• 155 • Brooklyn Project • (1948) • short story by William Tenn
• 168 • Coming Attraction • (1950) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 181 • The Sentinel • [A Space Odyssey] • (1951) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 195 • Sail On! Sail On! • (1952) • short story by Philip José Farmer
• 207 • Critical Factor • (1953) • short story by Hal Clement
• 224 • Fondly Fahrenheit • (1954) • novelette by Alfred Bester
• 246 • The Cold Equations • [Cold Equations (Godwin)] • (1954) • novelette by Tom Godwin
• 273 • The Game of Rat and Dragon • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1955) • short story by Cordwainer Smith
• 290 • Pilgrimage to Earth • (1956) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• 304 • Who Can Replace a Man? • (1958) • short story by Brian W. Aldiss
• 316 • Harrison Bergeron • (1961) • short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• 326 • The Streets of Ashkelon • (1962) • short story by Harry Harrison
• 343 • The Terminal Beach • (1964) • novelette by J. G. Ballard
• 367 • Dolphin's Way • (1964) • short story by Gordon R. Dickson
• 387 • Slow Tuesday Night • (1965) • short story by R. A. Lafferty
• 398 • Day Million • (1966) • short story by Frederik Pohl
• 407 • We Can Remember It for You Wholesale • (1966) • novelette by Philip K. Dick
• 431 • I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream • (1967) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 449 • Aye, and Gomorrah ... • (1967) • short story by Samuel R. Delany
• 462 • The Jigsaw Man • [Known Space] • (1967) • short story by Larry Niven
• 476 • Kyrie • (1968) • short story by Poul Anderson
• 490 • Masks • (1968) • short story by Damon Knight
• 503 • Stand on Zanzibar (excerpt) • short fiction by John Brunner
• 519 • The Big Flash • (1969) • novelette by Norman Spinrad
• 543 • Sundance • (1969) • short story by Robert Silverberg
• 560 • The Left Hand of Darkness (excerpt) • [Hainish] • short fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 577 • When It Changed • [Whileaway] • (1972) • short story by Joanna Russ
• 588 • The Engine at Heartspring's Center • (1974) • short story by Roger Zelazny
• 600 • Tricentennial • (1976) • short story by Joe Haldeman
• 620 • Index (The Road to Science Fiction #3) • essay by uncredited