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• vii • Foreword (The Armchair Science Reader) • essay by Isabel S. Gordon and Sophie Sorkin
• Invasion from Mars • [H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds Universe] • (1938) • novelette by Howard Koch (variant of The Invasion from Mars: A Radio Adaptation)
• Flight to Malacandra (excerpt from Out of the Silent Planet) • (1938) • short fiction by C. S. Lewis
• Our Distant Cousins • [Jorkens] • (1929) • novelette by Lord Dunsany
• The Nautilus Reaches the Pole (excerpt from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea) • [Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (abridgments, adaptations, and excerpts)] • short fiction by Jules Verne
• A Descent Into the Maelstrom • (1852) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of
  A Descent Into the Maelström^?A Descent Into the Maelstrom
  A Descent Into the Maelstroem
  1841)
• John Thomas's Cube • (1945) • short story by John Leimert
• In Hiding • [Children of the Atom] • (1948) • novelette by Wilmar H. Shiras
• Creative Evolution (excerpt from Preface to Back to Methuselah) • (1921) • short fiction by George Bernard Shaw
• Split Cherry Tree • short story by Jesse Stuart
• Cabinet Decision • (1950) • short fiction by Nigel Balchin
• Dr Southport Vulpes's Nightmare: The Victory of Mind Over Matter • short story by Bertrand Russell (variant of Dr. Southport Vulpes's Nightmare: The Victory of Mind Over Matter 1954)
• The Portable Phonograph • (1941) • short story by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
• By the Waters of Babylon • (1937) • short story by
  Stephen Vincent Benét^?Stephen Vincent Benet
  (variant of The Place of the Gods)
• Laputan Projects (excerpt from Gulliver's Travels) • short fiction by Jonathan Swift
• Machines Do Our Work (excerpt from Looking Backward) • (1888) • short fiction by Edward Bellamy
• In Bondage to a Central Authority (excerpt from Brave New World) • (1932) • short fiction by Aldous Huxley
• The Machine Stops • (1909) • novelette by E. M. Forster
• The Morning of the Day They Did It • (1950) • short story by E. B. White