Notes: "Presentazione" is an original Italian essay "So Proudly We Hail" was translated by Arianna [Rossi] Livenzev as "Per una nuova frontiera" "The Night He Cried" was translated by Ferruccio Alessandri as "Piangi, terrestre amato" "Solipsist" was translated by Valentino De Carlo as "Solipsismo" "The First Men" was translated by Gian Luigi Gonano as "I primi uomini" "Stato concorrenziale" is an original Italian shortstory "Caccia alla strega" is an original Italian essay "Introduction (A Century of Science Fiction-excerpt)" was translated by Ugo Fossati as "Le regole del gioco" "Storia «di massa»" is an original Italian essay "Riunione di famiglia" is an original English essay, translated (by an uncredited translator)