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• 1 • Foreword: The Bad News and the Good • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 7 • Rainbird • (1961) • short story by R. A. Lafferty
• 21 • Nine Lives • (1969) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 49 • Idiot Stick • (1958) • short story by Damon Knight
• 65 • The Ark of James Carlyle • (1974) • short story by Cherry Wilder
• 85 • The Commuter • (1953) • short story by Philip K. Dick [as by Phillip K. Dick]
• 99 • The Oath • (1960) • short story by James Blish
• 121 • Takeover Bid • (1965) • novelette by John Baxter
• 143 • Comes Now the Power • (1966) • short story by Roger Zelazny
• 151 • Litterbug • (1969) • novelette by Tony Morphett
• 173 • Late • (1955) • short story by A. Bertram Chandler
• 185 • Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1961) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
• 211 • A Song Before Sunset • short story by David Grigg
• 225 • Sundance • (1969) • short story by Robert Silverberg
• 243 • The Oh in Jose • (1966) • short story by Brian W. Aldiss (variant of The O in José) [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 255 • The Man Who Came Early • (1956) • novelette by Poul Anderson
• 283 • Call Him Lord • (1966) • novelette by Gordon R. Dickson
• 307 • The Garden of Time • (1962) • short story by J. G. Ballard
• 317 • Afterword (Beyond Tomorrow) • essay by Lee Harding