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• vii • Introduction (The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century) • essay by Harry Turtledove
• 2 • Among Thieves • (1957) • novelette by Poul Anderson
• 27 • Second Variety • [Claws • 1] • (1953) • novelette by Philip K. Dick
• 72 • Hero • [Mandella] • (1972) • novella by Joe Haldeman [as by Joe W. Haldeman]
• 129 • Superiority • (1951) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 140 • Ender's Game • [Ender Wiggin] • (1977) • novelette by Orson Scott Card
• 179 • Hangman • [Hammer's Slammers] • (1979) • novella by David Drake
• 231 • The Last Article • (1988) • novelette by Harry Turtledove
• 263 • The Game of Rat and Dragon • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1955) • short story by Cordwainer Smith
• 279 • Night of the Vampyres • (1975) • novelette by George R. R. Martin
• 307 • To the Storming Gulf • (1985) • novella by Gregory Benford
• 358 • Wolf Time • (1987) • novelette by Walter Jon Williams
• 389 • The Scapegoat • [Alliance-Union] • (1985) • novella by C. J. Cherryh
• 436 • Dragonrider • [Dragonriders of Pern short fiction] • (1967) • novella by Anne McCaffrey