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• 3 • Introduction (The Best of Omni Science Fiction) • essay by Ben Bova
• 4 • Found! • (1978) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 4 •  Found! • (1978) • interior artwork by H. R. Giger
• 10 • Robots (Excerpt from Mechanismo) • (1978) • essay by Harry Harrison
• 20 • Count the Clock That Tells the Time • (1978) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 20 •  Count the Clock That Tells the Time • (1978) • interior artwork by Mati Klarwein
• 28 •  Inner Domains • (1979) • interior artwork by Frank Armitage
• 28 • Inner Domains • (1979) • essay by Kathleen Stein
• 34 • Body Game • (1978) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• 34 •  Body Game • (1978) • interior artwork by Samuel Bak
• 38 • Unaccompanied Sonata • (1979) • short story by Orson Scott Card
• 38 •  Unaccompanied Sonata • (1979) • interior artwork by Evelyn Taylor
• 46 • Magnifications • (1979) • essay by Scot Morris
• 46 •  Magnifications (photographs) • (1979) • interior artwork by David Scharf
• 52 • Iceback Invasion • (1979) • novelette by Hayford Peirce
• 52 •  Iceback Invasion • (1979) • interior artwork by Evelyn Taylor
• 60 •  Visions of the Cosmos • (1979) • interior artwork by Andrei Sokolov
• 60 • Visions of the Cosmos • (1979) • essay by Frederick C. Durant, III
• 68 • No Future in It • (1979) • short story by Joe Haldeman
• 68 •  No Future in It • (1979) • interior artwork by Gottfried Helnwein
• 72 • Galatea Galante • (1979) • novelette by Alfred Bester (variant of Galatea Galante, the Perfect Popsy)
• 73 •  Galatea Galante • (1979) • interior artwork by H. R. Giger
• 86 • Alien Landscapes (excerpt) • (1979) • essay by Malcolm Edwards and Robert Holdstock
• 86 •  The Time Machine • (1980) • interior artwork by Les Edwards
• 88 •  Dune • (1980) • interior artwork by Terry Oakes
• 90 •  Mission of Gravity • (1980) • interior artwork by Tony Roberts (artist)
• 92 •  Cities in Flight • (1980) • interior artwork by John Harris
• 94 •  Kinsman • (1979) • interior artwork by John Schoenherr (variant of cover art for Analog Science Fact -> Science Fiction, April 1962 1962)
• 94 • Kinsman (excerpt) • [Kinsman] • (1979) • short fiction by Ben Bova
• 102 • Space Cities (excerpt from Mechanismo) • (1979) • essay by Harry Harrison
• 110 • Halfjack • (1979) • short story by Roger Zelazny
• 110 •  Halfjack • (1979) • interior artwork by Michel Henricot
• 114 • Sandkings • [Thousand Worlds] • (1979) • novelette by George R. R. Martin
• 114 •  Sandkings • (1979) • interior artwork by Ernst Fuchs
• 130 • Planet Story (Excerpt) • (1979) • short fiction by Jim Burns and Harry Harrison
• 138 • Interview: Arthur C. Clarke • (1979) • interview of Arthur C. Clarke • interview by Malcolm Kirk