Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• 7 • Our Incredible Future • (1987) • essay by Ray Bradbury
• 11 • from Address Upon Receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature • (1954) • poem by William Faulkner
• 13 • Why Read Science Fiction? • (1987) • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 17 • The Forecast • (1987) • poem by Dan Jaffe
• 19 • Trurl's Machine • [Cyberiada (The Cyberiad)] • (1974) • short story by
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  (trans. of Maszyna Trurla 1964) [as by Stanislaw Lem]
• 29 • On a Tree Fallen Across the Road • (1923) • poem by Robert Frost
• 31 • Terrafied • (1973) • short story by Arthur Tofte
• 43 • Song of the Open Road • (1932) • poem by Ogden Nash
• 45 • Time in Thy Flight • (1953) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 51 • Earth • (1924) • poem by Oliver Herford
• 51 • Earth • (1961) • poem by John Hall Wheelock
• 53 • In the Year Ten Thousand • (1892) • short story by Will N. Harben
• 59 • Night of Lift-off, July 16, 1969 • (1977) • poem by Raymond Roseliep
• 61 • The World of Tomorrow • (1987) • essay by Alvin Toffler
• 67 • The King of Beasts • (1964) • short story by Philip José Farmer (variant of The King of the Beasts)
• 71 • More Than Iron • (1987) • poem by Racter
• 71 • In a Half Bright Sky • (1987) • poem by Racter
• 73 • Predictions • (1987) • essay by uncredited
• 79 • For the Children • (1987) • poem by Gary Snyder
• 81 • Image of the Gods • (1963) • short story by Alan E. Nourse (variant of The Image of the Gods 1954)
• 99 • Southbound on the Freeway • (1963) • poem by May Swenson
• 101 • Warday (excerpt) • (1987) • short fiction by James Kunetka and Whitley Strieber
• 121 • Harder Than Granite • (1963) • poem by Robinson Jeffers
• 123 • Who's There? • (1958) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 130 • Electronic Tape Found in a Bottle • (1971) • poem by O. M. Cabral [as by Olga Cabral]
• 133 • The Great Nebraska Sea • (1963) • short story by Allan Danzig
• 147 • The Choice • (1953) • short story by Wayland Hilton-Young [as by W. Hilton-Young]
• 149 • Preposterous • (1954) • short story by Fredric Brown
• 152 • Prologue • (1963) • poem by Edward Field
• 155 • The Portable Phonograph • (1941) • short story by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
• 163 • The Human Family • (1980) • essay by Carl Sagan
• 167 • The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street (teleplay) • (1981) • short fiction by Rod Serling
• 184 • The Last Flower • graphic format • (1939) • short fiction by James Thurber