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• xi • Preface (Science Fiction of the 50's) • (1979) • essay by Frederik Pohl
• xv • Introduction (Science Fiction of the Fifties) • (1979) • essay by Martin H. Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander [as by Martin Harry Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander]
• 1 • Spectator Sport • (1950) • short story by John D. MacDonald
• 9 • Feedback • (1951) • short story by Katherine MacLean
• 29 • Bettyann • [Bettyann • 1] • (1951) • novelette by Kris Neville
• 71 • Dark Interlude • (1951) • short story by Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds
• 81 • What Have I Done? • (1952) • short story by Mark Clifton
• 99 • DP! • (1953) • short story by Jack Vance
• 121 • The Liberation of Earth • (1953) • short story by William Tenn
• 141 • A Bad Day for Sales • (1953) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 149 • Saucer of Loneliness • (1953) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon (variant of A Saucer of Loneliness)
• 163 • Heirs Apparent • (1954) • novelette by Robert Abernathy
• 187 • 5,271,009 • (1954) • novelette by Alfred Bester
• 223 • Short in the Chest • (1954) • short story by Margaret St. Clair
• 233 • The Academy • (1954) • novelette by Robert Sheckley
• 257 • Nobody Bothers Gus • [Gus] • (1955) • short story by Algis Budrys
• 271 • Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus • (1956) • novelette by Frederik Pohl
• 295 • A Work of Art • (1956) • short story by James Blish
• 313 • The Country of the Kind • (1956) • short story by Damon Knight
• 327 • The Education of Tigress McCardle • (1957) • short story by C. M. Kornbluth (variant of The Education of Tigress Macardle)
• 339 • The Cage • (1957) • short story by A. Bertram Chandler
• 353 • The Last of the Deliverers • (1958) • short story by Poul Anderson
• 367 • Adrift on the Policy Level • (1959) • short story by Chan Davis
• 387 • Afterword: Love O Careless Love • (1979) • essay by Barry N. Malzberg
• 391 • Selected Bibliography (Science Fiction of the Fifties) • (1979) • essay by uncredited