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• The Nine Billion Names of God • (1953) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• The Man with English • (1953) • short story by H. L. Gold
• The Chronoclasm • (1953) • novelette by John Wyndham (variant of Chronoclasm)
• The Deserter • (1953) • short story by William Tenn
• Dominoes • (1953) • short story by C. M. Kornbluth
• Contraption • (1953) • short story by Clifford D. Simak
• The Night He Cried • (1953) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• A Scent of Sarsaparilla • (1953) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• The Last Weapon • (1953) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• Idealist • (1953) • short story by Lester del Rey
• So Proudly We Hail • (1953) • short story by Judith Merril
• The Journey • (1953) • short story by Murray Leinster
• A Wild Surmise • (1953) • short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
• Country Doctor • (1953) • novelette by William Morrison
• Editor's Note (Star Science Fiction Stories) • (1953) • essay by Frederik Pohl
• "Nobody Here But ..." • (1953) • short story by Isaac Asimov (variant of Nobody Here But—)