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• 1 • Introduction (Classic Science Fiction: The First Golden Age) • essay by Terry Carr
• 18 • The Smallest God • (1940) • novelette by Lester del Rey
• 63 • Into the Darkness • [Darkness (Rocklynne)] • (1940) • novelette by Ross Rocklynne
• 99 • Vault of the Beast • (1940) • novelette by A. E. van Vogt
• 134 • The Mechanical Mice • (1941) • novelette by Maurice G. Hugi and Eric Frank Russell
• 166 • "—And He Built a Crooked House" • (1941) • novelette by Robert A. Heinlein
• 195 • Microcosmic God • (1941) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• 233 • Nightfall • (1941) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
• 279 • By His Bootstraps • (1941) • novella by Robert A. Heinlein
• 344 • Child of the Green Light • [Leigh Brackett's Solar System] • (1942) • short story by Leigh Brackett
• 371 • Victory Unintentional • [Jovians • 2] • (1942) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 399 • The Twonky • (1942) • short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner]
• 429 • Storm Warning • (1942) • short story by Donald A. Wollheim