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• vii • Introduction (A Science Fiction Omnibus) • essay by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 1 • Sole Solution • (1956) • short story by Eric Frank Russell
• 4 • Lot • [David Jimmon] • (1953) • novelette by Ward Moore
• 31 • Skirmish • (1955) • short story by Clifford D. Simak [as by Clifford Simak]
• 52 • And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side • (1972) • short story by James Tiptree, Jr.
• 61 • Poor Little Warrior! • (1959) • short story by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 67 • Grandpa • [The Hub] • (1955) • novelette by James H. Schmitz
• 89 • Nightfall • (1941) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
• 119 • The Snowball Effect • (1952) • short story by Katherine MacLean
• 133 • Swarm • [Shaper/Mechanist] • (1982) • novelette by Bruce Sterling
• 159 • Blood Music • (1983) • novelette by Greg Bear
• 184 • Answer • (1954) • short story by Fredric Brown
• 185 • The Liberation of Earth • (1953) • short story by William Tenn
• 203 • An Alien Agony • (1962) • short story by Harry Harrison (variant of The Streets of Ashkelon)
• 219 • Track 12 • (1958) • short story by J. G. Ballard
• 225 • Sexual Dimorphism • [Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)] • (1999) • short story by Kim Stanley Robinson
• 242 • The Tunnel Under the World • (1955) • novelette by Frederik Pohl
• 275 • Friends in Need • short fiction by Eliza Blair
• 290 • The Store of the Worlds • (1959) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• 297 • Jokester • [Multivac] • (1956) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 311 • The Short-Short Story of Mankind • (1957) • short story by John Steinbeck (variant of We Are Holding Our Own 1955)
• 317 • Night Watch • (1965) • short story by James Inglis
• 329 • Story of Your Life • (1998) • novella by Ted Chiang
• 378 • Protected Species • (1951) • short story by H. B. Fyfe
• 390 • The Rescuer • (1962) • short story by Arthur Porges
• 397 • I Made You • (1954) • short story by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• 409 • The Country of the Kind • (1956) • short story by Damon Knight
• 423 • The Cage • (1957) • short story by A. Bertram Chandler [as by Bertram Chandler]
• 435 • Fulfilment • (1964) • novelette by A. E. van Vogt (variant of Fulfillment 1951)
• 462 • Common Time • (1953) • short story by James Blish
• 485 • Alien Embassy • (2006) • short fiction by Garry Kilworth
• 498 • Great Work of Time • (1989) • novella by John Crowley