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• 1 • Introduction (The Playboy Book of Science Fiction) • essay by Alice K. Turner
• 3 • The Lost City of Mars • (1967) • novelette by Ray Bradbury
• 35 • Nine Lives • (1969) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 63 • Deathwatch • (1965) • short story by Norman Spinrad
• 71 • Masks • (1968) • short story by Damon Knight
• 85 • Welcome to the Monkey House • (1968) • short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• 105 • The Dead Astronaut • (1968) • short story by J. G. Ballard
• 119 • The Schematic Man • (1969) • short story by Frederik Pohl
• 127 • Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? • (1969) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• 139 • Transit of Earth • (1971) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 155 • Report on the Threatened City • (1971) • novelette by Doris Lessing
• 189 • Leviathan! • [Svetz] • (1970) • short story by Larry Niven
• 203 • All the Birds Come Home to Roost • (1979) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 219 • The Apotheosis of Myra • (1980) • novelette by Walter Tevis
• 243 • Frozen Journey • (1980) • short story by Philip K. Dick
• 265 • Gianni • (1982) • short story by Robert Silverberg
• 287 • The Word Processor • (1983) • short story by Stephen King
• 309 • Interstellar Pigeon • (1982) • short story by Donald E. Westlake
• 329 • Heirs of the Perisphere • (1985) • short story by Howard Waldrop
• 349 • Earth Station Charlie • (1986) • short story by Billy Crystal
• 357 • Slow, Slow Burn • [Budayeen] • (1988) • short story by George Alec Effinger
• 377 • More Than the Sum of His Parts • (1985) • short story by Joe Haldeman
• 397 • Sen Yen Babbo & the Heavenly Host • (1987) • short story by Chet Williamson
• 415 • Fire Zone Emerald • (1986) • novelette by Lucius Shepard
• 441 • The Ghost Standard • (1994) • short story by William Tenn
• 453 • An Office Romance • (1997) • short story by Terry Bisson