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• Foreword: Science Fiction Short Stories • (2015) • essay by Andy Sawyer
• Publisher's Note (Science Fiction Short Stories) • (2015) • essay by uncredited
• Flatland • [Flatland • 1] • (2007) • novel by Edwin A. Abbott (variant of Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions 1884)
• The Body Surfer • (2011) • short fiction by Edward Ahern
• Behind the First Years • (2013) • short story by Stewart C. Baker
• Genetic Changelings • (2015) • short story by Keyan Bowes
• Overlap • (2012) • short story by Beth Cato
• Phantoms of Reality • (1930) • novelette by Ray Cummings
• The Disintegration Machine • [Professor Challenger • 5] • (1929) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Machine Stops • (1909) • novelette by E. M. Forster
• Smith and the Pharaohs • (1912) • novella by H. Rider Haggard
• Rest in Peace • (2014) • short fiction by Sarah Hans
• The Hives and the Hive-Nots • (2015) • short fiction by Rob Hartzell
• The Vast Weight of Their Bleeding Hearts • (2013) • short fiction by Alexis A. Hunter
• Makeisha in Time • (2014) • short story by Rachael K. Jones
• The Ego Machine • (1952) • novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner]
• The Julius Directive • (2015) • short fiction by Jacob Lambert [as by Jacob M. Lambert]
• The Shadow and the Flash • (1903) • short story by Jack London
• Metsys • (2013) • short story by Adrian Ludens
• The Tachypomp • (1874) • short story by Edward Page Mitchell
• Fishing Expedition • (2015) • short story by Mike Morgan
• Armageddon—2419 A. D. • [Buck Rogers • 1] • (1928) • novella by Philip Francis Nowlan
• Red • (2012) • short story by Kate O'Connor
• Time and Time Again • (1947) • short story by H. Beam Piper
• Nude Descending an Elevator Shaft • (2013) • short fiction by Conor Powers-Smith
• The Invisible Ray • [Craig Kennedy] • (1911) • short fiction by Arthur B. Reeve
• Sweet Dreams, Glycerine • (2015) • short fiction by Zach Shephard
• Jenny's Sick • (2010) • short story by David Tallerman
• Shortcuts • (2014) • short fiction by Brian Trent
• A Life as Warm as Death • (2015) • short fiction by Patrick Tumblety
• Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven • (1907) • novelette by Mark Twain (variant of Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven)
• Butterfly Dreams • (2010) • short story by Donald Jacob Uitvlugt
• The Day of an American Journalist in 2889 • (2015) • short story by Jules Verne and Michel Verne (trans. of La journée d'un journaliste américain en 2890 1890) [as by Jules Verne]
• Planetoid 127 • (1929) • novella by Edgar Wallace
• The Care and Feeding of Mammalian Bipeds, v. 2.1 • (2012) • short fiction by M. Darusha Wehm
• The Worlds of If • [Professor Manderpootz] • (1935) • short story by Stanley G. Weinbaum
• Clockwork Evangeline • (2014) • short fiction by Nemma Wollenfang
• Biographies & Sources (Science Fiction Short Stories) • (2015) • essay by uncredited