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• ix • Introduction: Comets • [Asimov's Essays: Other's Work] • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 1 • A Blazing Starre Seene in the West • (1642) • short fiction by Jonas Wright
• 5 • Into the Sun • [Into the Sun • 1] • (1882) • short story by Robert Duncan Milne
• 23 • Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven • (1907) • novelette by Mark Twain (variant of Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven)
• 32 • The Comet Doom • (1928) • novelette by Edmond Hamilton
• 71 • Sunspot • (1960) • short story by Hal Clement
• 93 • Inside the Comet • (1960) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke (variant of Into the Comet)
• 103 • Raindrop • (1965) • novelette by Hal Clement
• 149 • Comet Wine • (1967) • novelette by Ray Russell
• 167 • The Red Euphoric Bands • (1967) • short story by R. S. Richardson [as by Philip Latham]
• 180 • Throwback • (1970) • short story by Sydney J. Bounds
• 189 • Kindergarten • (1970) • short story by James E. Gunn
• 192 • West Wind, Falling • (1971) • novelette by Gregory Benford and Gordon Eklund
• 213 • The Comet, the Cairn and the Capsule • (1972) • short story by Duncan Lunan (variant of Comet, Cairn and Capsule)
• 230 • Some Joys Under the Star • (1973) • short story by Frederik Pohl
• 243 • Future Forbidden • (1973) • short story by R. S. Richardson [as by Philip Latham]
• 260 • The Death of Princes • (1976) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 277 • The Funhouse Effect • [Eight Worlds] • (1976) • novelette by John Varley
• 302 • The Family Man • (1978) • short story by Theodore L. Thomas
• 309 • Double Planet • (1984) • short story by John Gribbin [as by Dr. John Gribbin]
• 317 • Pride • (1985) • novelette by Poul Anderson