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• 9 • Preface (Masters' Choice) • essay by Laurence M. Janifer
• 15 • Liar! • [Susan Calvin] • (1941) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 34 • It's a Good Life • (1953) • short story by Jerome Bixby
• 52 • The Veldt • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 67 • The Golem • (1955) • short story by Avram Davidson
• 73 • Helen O'Loy • (1938) • short story by Lester del Rey
• 85 • The Cold Equations • [Cold Equations (Godwin)] • (1954) • novelette by Tom Godwin
• 111 • The Dwindling Sphere • (1940) • short story by Willard E. Hawkins
• 128 • Requiem • [D. D. Harriman] • (1940) • short story by Robert A. Heinlein
• 147 • Theory of Rocketry • (1958) • short story by C. M. Kornbluth
• 162 • Don't Look Now • (1948) • short story by Henry Kuttner
• 176 • Seven-Day Terror • (1962) • short story by R. A. Lafferty
• 184 • Coming Attraction • (1950) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 198 • Politics • (1932) • novelette by Murray Leinster
• 227 • Memento Homo • (1954) • short story by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (variant of Death of a Spaceman)
• 245 • The Bright Illusion • (1934) • short story by C. L. Moore
• 272 • And Now the News ... • (1956) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• 293 • The Custodian • (1953) • novelette by William Tenn
• 314 • The New Accelerator • (1901) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 329 • The Honor Roll • essay by uncredited
• 333 • Bibliography (Masters' Choice) • essay by uncredited