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• 11 • Introduction (From Here to Forever) • (1982) • essay by James E. Gunn
• 29 • Born of Skill and Money • (1982) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 32 • Born of Man and Woman • (1950) • short story by Richard Matheson
• 36 • Heart of Darkness • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 38 • The Luckiest Man in Denv • (1952) • short story by C. M. Kornbluth
• 50 • A Clash of Symbols • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 52 • Common Time • (1953) • short story by James Blish
• 72 • Word Magic • (1982) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 75 • My Boy Friend's Name Is Jello • (1954) • short story by Avram Davidson
• 80 • A Canticle for the Fifties • (1982) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 83 • The First Canticle • [Saint Leibowitz] • (1955) • novelette by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (variant of A Canticle for Leibowitz)
• 104 • The Lodestone Genre • (1982) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 107 • Nobody Bothers Gus • [Gus] • (1955) • short story by Algis Budrys [as by Paul Janvier]
• 120 • Inferiority: The Complex Problem • (1982) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 123 • Flowers for Algernon • (1959) • novelette by Daniel Keyes
• 150 • A Question of Identity • (1982) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 153 • The Moon Moth • (1961) • novelette by Jack Vance
• 187 • The View from Outside • (1982) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 190 • The Library of Babel • (1962) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of La biblioteca de Babel 1941)
• 199 • Inner Concerns in Outer Space • (1982) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 203 • From Dune • [Dune] • (1982) • short fiction by Frank Herbert
• 224 • The Vigor of Traditional SF • (1982) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 227 • Light of Other Days • [Slow Glass] • (1966) • short story by Bob Shaw
• 236 • Ambiguities and Inscrutabilities • (1982) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 239 • The First Sally (A), or Trurl's Electronic Bard • [Cyberiada (The Cyberiad)] • (1974) • short story by
  Stanisław Lem^?Stanislaw Lem
  (trans. of
  Wyprawa pierwsza A, czyli Elektrybałt Trurla^?Wyprawa pierwsza A, czyli Elektrybalt Trurla
  1965) [as by Stanislaw Lem]
• 251 • Entropy and the World View • (1982) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 254 • The Heat Death of the Universe • (1967) • short story by Pamela Zoline
• 269 • Speculations on Speculative Fiction • (1982) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 272 • The Planners • (1968) • short story by Kate Wilhelm
• 287 • The Alienness of the Alien • (1982) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 290 • The Dance of the Changer and the Three • (1968) • short story by Terry Carr
• 304 • The Virtues of Indirection • (1982) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 307 • The Last Flight of Dr. Ain • (1969) • short story by James Tiptree, Jr.
• 314 • Radical Sensibility • (1982) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 317 • Where No Sun Shines • (1970) • short story by Gardner Dozois
• 327 • Escape Reading • (1982) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 330 • The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories • [Archipelago] • (1970) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 346 • Understanding Reader Reaction • (1982) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 350 • Angouleme • (1971) • short story by Thomas M. Disch
• 367 • The Postwar Generation • (1982) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 370 • Gather Blue Roses • (1972) • short story by Pamela Sargent
• 377 • The Star Trek Synrome • (1982) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 379 • With a Finger in My I • (1972) • short story by David Gerrold
• 391 • Of Men, and Women, and Society • (1982) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 394 • Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand • [Snake] • (1973) • novelette by Vonda N. McIntyre
• 414 • Of Novas and Other Stars • (1982) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 417 • Air Raid • (1977) • short story by John Varley
• 430 • Science Fiction, Aliens, and Alienation • (1982) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 434 • Uncoupling • (1975) • short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• 444 • Exotic Parables • (1982) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 447 • Rogue Tomato • (1975) • short story by Michael Bishop
• 458 • The Labor Day Group • (1982) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 461 • This Tower of Ashes • [Thousand Worlds] • (1976) • short story by George R. R. Martin
• 479 • Fiction and Science • (1982) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 482 • Particle Theory • (1977) • short story by Edward Bryant
• 505 • The Anthropology of the Future • (1982) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 508 • View from a Height • (1978) • short story by Joan D. Vinge
• 523 • Form and Content • (1982) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 526 • The Word Sweep • (1979) • short story by George Zebrowski
• 538 • Dialectic of History and Transcendence • (1982) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 541 • The World Science Fiction Convention of 2080 • (1980) • short story by Ian Watson
• 544 • Estranging the Everyday • (1982) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 549 • Abominable • (1980) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
• 559 • Science and Fiction • (1982) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 563 • Exposures • (1981) • short story by Gregory Benford
• 576 • The Real and the Surreal • (1982) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 579 • Schrödinger's Kitten • [Budayeen] • (1988) • novelette by George Alec Effinger