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• ix • Introduction: The History of Australian Science Fiction • (1982) • essay by Van Ikin
• 4 • The Monster Mine • (1845) • short story by P. G. M.
• 7 • "Oo-a-deen": or, The Mysteries of the Interior Unveiled • (1847) • novelette by Anonymous
• 28 • Human Repetends • (1872) • short story by Marcus Clarke
• 40 • A Vision Out West • (1897) • poem by Barcroft Boake
• 45 • Utopian Dreams: From "Melbourne and Mars: My Mysterious Life on Two Planets" (Excerpt) • (1889) • short fiction by Joseph Fraser
• 52 • The Red Sickness: From "The Germ Growers" (Excerpt) • (1892) • short fiction by Robert Potter (1831-1908) [as by Robert Potter, B.A.]
• 63 • War: From "Beyond the Ice" (Excerpt) • (1894) • short fiction by G. Read Murphy
• 74 • The Bunyip Dies: From "The Last Lemurian" (Excerpt) • (1898) • short fiction by G. Firth Scott
• 87 • A Woman of Earth: from "A Woman of Mars" • (1901) • short fiction by Mary Ann Moore-Bentley
• 92 • The Invasion of Sydney: From "The Coloured Conquest" (Excerpt) • (1904) • short fiction by Rata
• 103 • The Shadow Falls: From "The Electric Gun" (Excerpt) • (1911) • short fiction by Harold Johnston
• 114 • Andax and Odi: from "Out of the Silence" • (1925) • short fiction by Erle Cox
• 131 • The Wreck in the Void: From "Vandals of the Void" (Excerpt) • (1931) • short fiction by J. M. Walsh [as by James Morgan Walsh]
• 146 • Aubade: from "Tomorrow and Tomorrow" (excerpt) • (1947) • short fiction by Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw (variant of Aubade from "Tomorrow and Tomorrow" (excerpt)) [as by M. Barnard Eldershaw]
• 159 • Place of the Throwing-stick • (1956) • short story by Frank Bryning (variant of Place of the Throwing Stick)
• 166 • Kelly Country • (1976) • short story by A. Bertram Chandler
• 181 • One Way to Tomorrow • (1957) • short story by Wynne Whiteford [as by Wynne N. Whiteford]
• 190 • Re-Deem the Time • (1978) • short story by David J. Lake
• 204 • One Clay Foot • (1979) • novelette by Jack Wodhams
• 236 • In a Petri Dish Upstairs • (1978) • novelette by George Turner
• 266 • A Passage in Earth • (1978) • short story by Damien Broderick
• 278 • Inhabiting the Interspaces • (1979) • short story by Philippa C. Maddern
• 294 • The Gentle Basilisk • (1957) • short story by Dal Stivens
• 298 • Limbo: From "Displaced Person" (excerpt) • (1979) • short fiction by Lee Harding
• 309 • The Words She Types • (1975) • short story by Michael Wilding
• 312 • Report on the Shadow Industry • (1974) • short story by Peter Carey
• 314 • Select Bibliography • (1982) • essay by uncredited