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• 9 • Something New Under the Sun • essay by Robin Scott Wilson
• 15 • The Prize of Wonder • essay by Robert Hoskins
• 18 • The Balloon-Hoax • (1844) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 34 • Flatland: Two Excerpts • (1884) • short fiction by Edwin A. Abbott
• 46 • Moxon's Master • (1899) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 58 • The Land Ironclads • (1903) • novelette by H. G. Wells
• 86 • With the Night Mail • [Aerial Board of Control • 1] • (1905) • novelette by Rudyard Kipling
• 112 • The Machine Stops • (1909) • novelette by E. M. Forster
• 152 • The Unparalleled Invasion • (1910) • short story by Jack London
• 170 • The Disintegration Machine • [Professor Challenger • 5] • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle [as by A. Conan Doyle]
• 186 • Metropolitan Nightmare • (1927) • poem by Stephen Vincent Benét
• 190 • Nightmare Number Three • (1935) • poem by Stephen Vincent Benét
• 194 • Killdozer! • (1944) • novella by Theodore Sturgeon
• 276 • Surface Tension • [Pantropy] • (1952) • novelette by James Blish