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• xiii • Introduction (From Heinlein to Here) • (1979) • essay by James E. Gunn (variant of On the Road to Science Fiction: From Heinlein to Here) [as by James Gunn]
• 4 • All You Zombies— • (1971) • short story by Robert A. Heinlein (variant of "All You Zombies ..." 1959)
• 18 • Reason • [Mike Donovan] • (1941) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 36 • Desertion • [City] • (1944) • short story by Clifford D. Simak
• 50 • Mimsy Were the Borogoves • (1943) • novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
• 82 • The Million-Year Picnic • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of The Million Year Picnic 1946)
• 94 • Thunder and Roses • (1947) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• 117 • That Only a Mother • (1948) • short story by Judith Merril
• 129 • Brooklyn Project • (1948) • short story by William Tenn
• 141 • Coming Attraction • (1950) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 156 • The Sentinel • [A Space Odyssey] • (1951) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 167 • Sail On! Sail On! • (1952) • short story by Philip José Farmer
• 179 • Critical Factor • (1953) • short story by Hal Clement
• 195 • Fondly Fahrenheit • (1954) • novelette by Alfred Bester
• 216 • The Cold Equations • [Cold Equations (Godwin)] • (1954) • novelette by Tom Godwin
• 240 • The Game of Rat and Dragon • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1955) • short story by Cordwainer Smith
• 257 • Pilgrimage to Earth • (1956) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• 270 • Who Can Replace a Man? • (1958) • short story by Brian W. Aldiss
• 282 • Harrison Bergeron • (1961) • short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• 291 • The Streets of Ashkelon • (1962) • short story by Harry Harrison
• 307 • The Terminal Beach • (1964) • novelette by J. G. Ballard
• 329 • Dolphin's Way • (1964) • short story by Gordon R. Dickson
• 348 • Slow Tuesday Night • (1965) • short story by R. A. Lafferty
• 359 • Day Million • (1966) • short story by Frederik Pohl
• 367 • We Can Remember It for You Wholesale • (1966) • novelette by Philip K. Dick
• 389 • I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream • (1967) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 406 • Aye, and Gomorrah • (1970) • short story by Samuel R. Delany (variant of Aye, and Gomorrah ... 1967)
• 418 • The Jigsaw Man • [Known Space] • (1967) • short story by Larry Niven
• 431 • Kyrie • (1968) • short story by Poul Anderson
• 444 • Masks • (1968) • short story by Damon Knight
• 456 • Stand on Zanzibar (excerpt) • (1979) • short fiction by John Brunner
• 472 • The Big Flash • (1969) • novelette by Norman Spinrad
• 494 • Sundance • (1969) • short story by Robert Silverberg
• 510 • The Left Hand of Darkness (excerpt) • [Hainish] • (1979) • short fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 526 • When It Changed • [Whileaway] • (1972) • short story by Joanna Russ
• 537 • The Engine at Heartspring's Center • (1974) • short story by Roger Zelazny
• 548 • Tricentennial • (1976) • short story by Joe Haldeman