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• 1 • The Sky Was Full of Ships • (1947) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 15 • The Halfling • [Earth (Brackett)] • (1943) • novelette by Leigh Brackett
• 40 • Knock • (1948) • short story by Fredric Brown
• 53 • Voices in the Dust • (1947) • short story by Gerald Kersh (variant of Voices in the Dust of Annan)
• 70 • A Hitch in Time • (1947) • short story by Frederik Pohl [as by James MacCreigh]
• 80 • Gentlemen, Be Seated • [Future History] • (1948) • short story by Robert A. Heinlein (variant of Gentlemen, Be Seated!) [as by Robert Heinlein]
• 92 • Nightmare Number Three • (1935) • poem by Stephen Vincent Benét
• 95 • The Star • (1897) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 109 • The Dark Angel • (1946) • novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
• 126 • Mr. Lupescu • (1945) • short story by Anthony Boucher
• 132 • The Day of the Deepies • (1947) • short story by Murray Leinster
• 151 • The Shadow and the Flash • (1903) • short story by Jack London
• 169 • Spokesman for Terra • (1941) • short story by John B. Michel [as by Hugh Raymond]
• 174 • He Was Asking After You • (1946) • short story by Margery Allingham
• 183 • Strange Playfellow • (1940) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 198 • Brooklyn Project • (1948) • short story by William Tenn
• 211 • Interview with a Lemming • (1941) • short story by James Thurber
• 213 • Mars Is Heaven! • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1948) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 236 • Who Is Charles Avison? • (1916) • short story by Edison Marshall [as by Edison Tesla Marshall]
• 252 • The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 264 • The Bronze Parrot • (1918) • short story by R. Austin Freeman
• 281 • Life on the Moon • (1946) • short story by Alexander Samalman
• 290 • Blunder • (1946) • short story by Philip Wylie