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• Blueprint for Tomorrow • (1953) • essay by Samuel Mines
• Dark Nuptial • (1953) • short story by Robert Donald Locke
• Dormant • (1948) • short story by A. E. van Vogt
• Introduction (The Best from Startling Stories) • (1953) • essay by Robert A. Heinlein
• Moment Without Time • (1952) • novelette by Joel Townsley Rogers
• No Land of Nod • (1952) • short story by Sherwood Springer
• Noise • (1952) • short story by Jack Vance
• The Perfect Gentleman • (1952) • short story by R. J. McGregor
• The Wages of Synergy • (1953) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• Thirty Seconds - Thirty Days • (1949) • novelette by Arthur C. Clarke (variant of Breaking Strain)
• What's It Like Out There? • (1952) • novelette by Edmond Hamilton
• Who's Cribbing? • (1953) • short story by Jack Lewis
• The Naming of Names • (1949) • short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed)