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• 6 •  "The future waits to be made and remade again." • (1987) • interior artwork by Edmond Hamilton
• 7 • Our Incredible Future • (1987) • essay by Ray Bradbury
• 10 •  A Collection of Prose and Poetry on the Theme of Tomorrow • (1987) • interior artwork by Robert Burroughs
• 11 • from Address Upon Receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature • (1954) • poem by William Faulkner
• 12 •  "Our age is future-oriented, the first age that is." • (1987) • interior artwork by Frank R. Paul (variant of cover art for Fantastic, September 1965 1965)
• 13 • Why Read Science Fiction? • (1987) • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 16 •  A Collection of Prose and Poetry on the Theme of Tomorrow [2] • (1987) • interior artwork by Michael Collins (astronaut)
• 17 • The Forecast • (1987) • poem by Dan Jaffe
• 18 •  "The ran and ran - what else could they do?" • (1987) • interior artwork by Jim Ludtke
• 19 • Trurl's Machine • [Cyberiada (The Cyberiad)] • (1974) • short story by
  Stanisław Lem^?Stanislaw Lem
  (trans. of Maszyna Trurla 1964) [as by Stanislaw Lem]
• 24 •  "What do you think it's waiting for now?" • (1987) • interior artwork by Jim Ludtke
• 29 • On a Tree Fallen Across the Road • (1923) • poem by Robert Frost
• 30 •  "You don't like Terra, do you? • (1987) • interior artwork by Jim Ludtke
• 31 • Terrafied • (1973) • short story by Arthur Tofte
• 35 •  "Terra ... has a bit of everything." • (1987) • interior artwork by Jim Ludtke
• 38 •  "What was going to happen to her?" • (1987) • interior artwork by Jim Ludtke
• 43 • Song of the Open Road • (1932) • poem by Ogden Nash
• 44 •  "So that was a circus." • (1987) • interior artwork by Greg Spalenka
• 45 • Time in Thy Flight • (1953) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 49 •  "I want firecrackers and pumpkins and circuses." • (1987) • interior artwork by Greg Spalenka
• 51 • Earth • (1924) • poem by Oliver Herford
• 51 • Earth • (1961) • poem by John Hall Wheelock
• 52 •  "It is no easy task to make you understand the past." • (1987) • interior artwork by Frank R. Paul (variant of City of the Future 1942)
• 53 • In the Year Ten Thousand • (1892) • short story by Will N. Harben
• 57 •  "In the year 4000 it was a country of its own." • (1987) • interior artwork by Brian Lewis (variant of cover art for New Worlds Science Fiction, #61 July 1957 1957)
• 59 • Night of Lift-off, July 16, 1969 • (1977) • poem by Raymond Roseliep
• 60 •  "He will also use the sea for actual living space." • (1987) • interior artwork by Jim Harter
• 61 • The World of Tomorrow • (1987) • essay by Alvin Toffler
• 64 •  "The robots chase girls, play music, fire pistols." • (1987) • interior artwork by Jim Harter
• 67 • The King of Beasts • (1964) • short story by
  Philip José Farmer^?Philip Jose Farmer
  (variant of The King of the Beasts)
• 68 •  "Is it so dangerous?" • (1987) • interior artwork by Jim Ludtke
• 70 •  A Collection of Prose and Poetry on the Theme of Tomorrow [3] • (1987) • interior artwork by Joan Hall
• 71 • More Than Iron • (1987) • poem by Racter
• 71 • In a Half Bright Sky • (1987) • poem by Racter
• 72 •  A Collection of Prose and Poetry on the Theme of Tomorrow [4] • (1987) • interior artwork by Ron Barrett
• 73 • Predictions • (1987) • essay by uncredited
• 77 •  "The bomb will never go off." • (1987) • interior artwork by Ron Barrett
• 79 • For the Children • (1987) • poem by Gary Snyder
• 80 •  "The creature strode across the rough gravel to the door." • (1987) • interior artwork by Greg Spalenka
• 81 • Image of the Gods • (1963) • short story by Alan E. Nourse (variant of The Image of the Gods 1954)
• 86 •  "I don't like it, Paula. There isn't any ship due this year." • (1987) • interior artwork by Greg Spalenka
• 90 •  "Nobody can get that kind of yield from this planet." • (1987) • interior artwork by Greg Spalenka
• 95 •  "The statue was weirdly beautiful." • (1987) • interior artwork by Greg Spalenka
• 98 •  A Collection of Prose and Poetry on the Theme of Tomorrow [5] • (1987) • interior artwork by UPI
• 99 • Southbound on the Freeway • (1963) • poem by May Swenson
• 100 •  "My first clear thought was of my family." • (1987) • interior artwork by Ken Hamilton
• 101 • Warday (excerpt) • (1987) • short fiction by James Kunetka and Whitley Strieber
• 108 •  "We have been married for twenty-three years." • (1987) • interior artwork by Ken Hamilton
• 110 •  "We have always hugged like this, the three of us." • (1987) • interior artwork by Ken Hamilton
• 113 •  "Do not leave the train. Have your entry permits ready." • (1987) • interior artwork by Ken Hamilton
• 115 •  "Venders commonly advertise their fruits as 'radiation-free.'" • (1987) • interior artwork by Ken Hamilton
• 120 •  A Collection of Prose and Poetry on the Theme of Tomorrow [6] • (1987) • interior artwork by Werner Bischof
• 121 • Harder Than Granite • (1963) • poem by Robinson Jeffers
• 122 •  "It's someone's test satellite -" • (1987) • interior artwork by Jim Ludtke
• 123 • Who's There? • (1958) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 125 •  "Ours are really baby spaceships." • (1987) • interior artwork by Jim Ludtke
• 127 •  "Panic slowly flooded into my mind like a rising tide." • (1987) • interior artwork by Jim Ludtke
• 130 • Electronic Tape Found in a Bottle • (1971) • poem by O. M. Cabral [as by Olga Cabral]
• 131 •  A Collection of Prose and Poetry on the Theme of Tomorrow [7] • (1987) • interior artwork by Palomar Observatory
• 132 •  "Get out while you can." • (1987) • interior artwork by Ken Hamilton
• 133 • The Great Nebraska Sea • (1963) • short story by Allan Danzig
• 136 •  "Soon the Missouri began slipping away westward." • (1987) • interior artwork by Ken Hamilton
• 138 •  The United States before the Great Nebraska Sea was formed. • (1987) • interior artwork by Ed Jacobus
• 139 •  The United States today. • (1987) • interior artwork by Ed Jacobus
• 140 •  "The barn luckily collapsed as the waves bore down on them." • (1987) • interior artwork by Ken Hamilton
• 143 •  "It is hard to remember the terror and despair of those weeks." • (1987) • interior artwork by Ken Hamilton
• 146 •  "Well, the things is, I can't remember." • (1987) • interior artwork by Greg Spalenka
• 147 • The Choice • (1953) • short story by Wayland Hilton-Young [as by W. Hilton-Young]
• 149 • Preposterous • (1954) • short story by Fredric Brown
• 150 •  "Such impossibly wild ideas." • (1987) • interior artwork by Jim Ludtke
• 152 • Prologue • (1963) • poem by Edward Field
• 153 •  A Collection of Prose and Poetry on the Theme of Tomorrow [8] • (1987) • interior artwork by Jack E. Cress
• 154 •  "I have saved what I loved." • (1987) • interior artwork by Darryl Zudeck
• 155 • The Portable Phonograph • (1941) • short story by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
• 159 •  "I do not play them more than once a week." • (1987) • interior artwork by Darryl Zudeck
• 163 • The Human Family • (1980) • essay by Carl Sagan
• 164 •  "Out loyalties must ... include the entire planet Earth." • (1987) • interior artwork by Jim Harter
• 166 •  "Tommy: They looked just like humans." • (1987) • interior artwork by Jim Ludtke
• 167 • The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street (teleplay) • (1981) • short fiction by Rod Serling
• 170 •  "Narrator: Maple Street ... before the monsters came." • (1987) • interior artwork by Jim Ludtke
• 181 •  "First Figure: Their world is full of Maple Streets." • (1987) • interior artwork by Jim Ludtke
• 184 • The Last Flower • graphic format • (1939) • short fiction by James Thurber