Notes: • "First Ballantine Books Edition: May 1983" • Printing not stated, no number line • The artist is not credited, Sternbach's S inside a box is on the artwork • The TOC is split into three sections [not repeated in the book], each section with subtitles [also not repeated in the book] for each story in the section

The Complement:
• Captain [Cordwainer Smith]
• Crew [Richard McKenna]
• Passengers [Robert Sheckley]
• Cargo [Christopher Anvil]

The Type:
• Time Relativity Ships [Doris Pitkin Buck]
• Generation Ships [Frank M. Robinson]
• Suspended Animation Ships [A. E. Van Vogt]
• Cybernetic Ships [Anne McCaffrey]
• Faster Than Light/Hyperspace Ships [James V. McConnell, note that the story title page drops the 'V.']

The Events:
• First Contact [A. Bertram Chandler]
• Inspection [Eric Frank Russell]
• Disaster [Isaac Asimov]
• Combat [Fred Saberhagen]

• The page numbers in the TOC correspond to a brief one-paragraph 'about-the author' that precedes the story title page and text by two pages, the latter numbers are used in the contents below • Cover printed in the US, book in Canada