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• ix • Introduction (My Favorite Science Fiction Story) • (1999) • essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• 1 • The Man Who Lost the Sea • (1959) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 13 • The Last Command • [Bolo] • (1967) • short story by Keith Laumer
• 32 • Day Million • (1966) • short story by Frederik Pohl
• 38 • The Little Black Bag • (1950) • novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
• 67 • A Galaxy Called Rome • (1975) • novelette by Barry N. Malzberg
• 86 • Diabologic • (1955) • short story by Eric Frank Russell
• 108 • Untouched by Human Hands • (1953) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• 123 • Black Charlie • (1954) • short story by Gordon R. Dickson
• 139 • The Ugly Chickens • (1980) • novelette by Howard Waldrop
• 162 • The Mathenauts • (1964) • short story by Norman Kagan
• 178 • Lot • [David Jimmon] • (1953) • novelette by Ward Moore
• 205 • The Ballad of Lost C'mell • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1962) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
• 226 • A Martian Odyssey • [Tweel • 1] • (1934) • novelette by Stanley G. Weinbaum
• 252 • Common Time • (1953) • short story by James Blish
• 273 • The Engine at Heartspring's Center • (1974) • short story by Roger Zelazny
• 282 • Nerves • (1942) • novella by Lester del Rey
• 356 • The Only Thing We Learn • (1949) • short story by C. M. Kornbluth