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• A Case of Conscience • [After Such Knowledge] • (1953) • novella by James Blish
• Beyond Bedlam • (1951) • novella by Wyman Guin
• Born with the Dead • [Born with the Dead • 1] • (1974) • novella by Robert Silverberg
• By His Bootstraps • (1941) • novella by Robert A. Heinlein
• Dio • (1957) • novelette by Damon Knight
• Equinoctial • [Eight Worlds] • (1977) • novella by John Varley
• Giant Killer • (1945) • novelette by A. Bertram Chandler
• Houston, Houston, Do You Read? • (1976) • novella by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Introduction (The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels) • (1980) • essay by Martin H. Greenberg and Robert Silverberg [as by Martin Harry Greenberg and Robert Silverberg]
• On the Storm Planet • [Casher O'Neill] • (1965) • novella by Cordwainer Smith
• Second Game • [Kalin Trobt] • (1958) • novelette by Charles V. De Vet and Katherine MacLean
• The Dead Past • (1956) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
• The Golden Helix • (1954) • novella by Theodore Sturgeon
• The Miracle-Workers • (1958) • novella by Jack Vance
• The Road to the Sea • (1951) • novella by Arthur C. Clarke
• The Star Pit • (1967) • novella by Samuel R. Delany