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• ix • Introduction (Encounters) • [Asimov's Essays: Other's Work] • (1988) • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 1 • Contact! • (1974) • short story by David Drake
• 19 • Capsule • (1982) • short story by Rosalind M. Greenberg [as by Rosalind Straley]
• 21 • Cabin Boy • (1951) • novelette by Damon Knight
• 49 • First Love • (1959) • short story by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
• 70 • All the Way Back • (1952) • short story by Michael Shaara
• 90 • A Death in the House • (1959) • novelette by Clifford D. Simak
• 111 • Firewater • (1952) • novella by William Tenn
• 173 • Hiding Place • [Nicholas Van Rijn] • (1961) • novella by Poul Anderson
• 216 • Final Contact • (1988) • short fiction by J. A. Pollard
• 227 • Proof • (1942) • short story by Hal Clement
• 245 • Scientific Method • (1953) • short story by Chad Oliver
• 260 • First Contact • (1945) • novelette by Murray Leinster
• 296 • Not Final! • [Jovians • 1] • (1941) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 316 • Angel's Egg • (1951) • novelette by Edgar Pangborn
• 357 • The Victim from Space • (1957) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• 376 • Invasion of Privacy • (1970) • novelette by Bob Shaw