Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• 1 • Introduction-The Function of Science Fiction • (1971) • essay by James Blish
• 14 • The Muse • (1968) • short story by Anthony Burgess
• 34 • The Unsafe Deposit Box • (1962) • short story by Gerald Kersh
• 46 • Something Strange • (1960) • short story by Kingsley Amis
• 66 • Sold to Satan • (1923) • short story by Mark Twain
• 76 • The End of the Party • (1932) • short story by Graham Greene
• 86 • The Circular Ruins • (1962) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Las ruinas circulares 1940)
• 92 • The Shout • (1929) • novelette by Robert Graves
• 113 • The Door • (1939) • short story by E. B. White
• 119 • The Machine Stops • (1909) • novelette by E. M. Forster
• 153 • The Mark Gable Foundation • (1961) • short story by Leo Szilard
• 165 • The Enormous Radio • (1947) • short story by John Cheever
• 177 • The Finest Story in the World • (1891) • novelette by Rudyard Kipling
• 207 • The Shoddy Lands • (1956) • short story by C. S. Lewis
• 215 • Afterword (The Light Fantastic) • (1971) • essay by Harry Harrison