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• vii • Introduction (Great Science Fiction: Stories by the World's Great Scientists) • (1985) • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 1 • White Creatures • (1975) • short story by Gregory Benford
• 29 • The Singing Diamond • (1979) • short story by Robert L. Forward
• 39 • Publish and Perish • (1978) • short story by Paul J. Nahin
• 51 • Skystalk • (1979) • novelette by Charles Sheffield
• 73 • The Universal Library • (1958) • short story by Kurd Lasswitz (trans. of Die Universalbibliothek 1904)
• 83 • Long Shot • (1972) • short story by Vernor Vinge
• 99 • Blackmail • (1967) • short story by Fred Hoyle
• 105 • Jeannette's Hands • [Bob and Dagny Archer] • (1973) • short story by R. S. Richardson [as by Philip Latham]
• 129 • The Warm Space • (1985) • novelette by David Brin
• 147 • The Wind from the Sun • (1964) • novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
• 169 • Industrial Accident • (1980) • novelette by G. Harry Stine [as by Lee Correy]
• 193 • Choice • [Harvey Adam] • (1971) • short story by John R. Pierce
• 209 • The Winnowing • (1976) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 219 • Dr. Snow Maiden • (1975) • short story by Larry Eisenberg
• 229 • On the Fourth Planet • (1963) • short story by J. F. Bone
• 249 • Learning Theory • (1965) • short story by James McConnell [as by James V. McConnell]
• 265 • Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death • (1973) • short story by James Tiptree, Jr.
• 285 • Transfusion • (1959) • novelette by Chad Oliver
• 329 • In the Beginning • (1954) • short story by Morton Klass
• 347 • Modulation in All Things • (1975) • short story by Suzette Haden Elgin
• 365 • The Bones of Charlemagne • novelette by Mario Pei [as by Mario A. Pei]