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• 9 • Foreword — Why Read Science Fiction? • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 12 • Introduction-Beyond the World We Know • essay by Catherine Crook de Camp and L. Sprague de Camp
• 31 • The Odyssey (excerpt) • [The Iliad and The Odyssey] • short fiction by Homer
• 35 • Timaios (excerpt) • short fiction by Plato
• 40 • A Journey to the Moon (abridged) • [Les états et empires de la Lune et du Soleil] • short fiction by Cyrano de Bergerac
• 75 • The New Accelerator • (1901) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 94 • The Cats of Ulthar • [Dream Cycle] • (1920) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 100 • A Martian Odyssey • [Tweel • 1] • (1934) • novelette by Stanley G. Weinbaum
• 135 • Helen O'Loy • (1938) • short story by Lester del Rey
• 151 • The Cold Equations • [Cold Equations (Godwin)] • (1954) • novelette by Tom Godwin
• 185 • A Gun for Dinosaur • [Reginald Rivers] • (1956) • novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
• 221 • Before Eden • (1961) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 237 • The Last Question • [Multivac] • (1956) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 255 • Milestones . Novels Worth Reading • essay by uncredited