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• Introduction: A Quick Dip • [Asimov's Essays: Other's Work] • (1980) • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 1 • The Last Answer • (1980) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 8 • Package Deal • (1980) • short story by Donald Franson
• 15 • Gemini 74 • (1966) • short story by Jack Ritchie
• 18 • Geever's Flight • (1965) • short story by Charles E. Fritch
• 18 • Lycanthrope • (1976) • short story by Norm Hartman [as by Norman E. Hartman]
• 22 • Lost and Found • (1978) • short story by Phyllis Eisenstein
• 27 • Pattern • (1954) • short story by Fredric Brown
• 28 • Discovering a New Earth • (1980) • short story by Robert Mattingly
• 32 • Varieties of Technological Experience • (1978) • short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• 37 • Listen, Love • (1971) • short story by Jack Dann and George Zebrowski
• 41 • That Strain Again • (1980) • short story by Charles Sheffield
• 43 • Take Me to Your Leader • (1980) • short story by George H. Smith [as by George Henry Smith]
• 45 • Put Your Head Upon My Knee • (1967) • short story by Jack Ritchie
• 48 • The Big Fix • (1980) • short story by Robert F. Decker
• 51 • Speed of the Cheetah, Roar of the Lion • (1975) • short story by Harry Harrison
• 55 • Just Call Me Irish • (1958) • short story by Richard Wilson
• 59 • Renaissance Man • (1974) • short story by T. E. D. Klein
• 65 • Pulpworld • (1980) • short story by Richard K. Lyon [as by R. K. Lyon]
• 68 • The Other Tiger • (1953) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 71 • Little William • (1975) • short story by Patricia Matthews
• 75 • Steel • (1977) • short story by Alan Brennert
• 81 • Appointment on the Barge • (1980) • short story by Jack Ritchie
• 85 • And So On, and So On • (1971) • short story by James Tiptree, Jr.
• 89 • Nellthu • (1955) • short story by Anthony Boucher
• 90 • Taste of Battle • (1980) • short story by Donald Franson
• 95 • Deflation 2001 • (1972) • short story by Bob Shaw
• 98 • Do Androids Dream of Electric Love? • (1972) • short story by Walt Liebscher
• 100 • Dog Star • (1956) • short story by Mack Reynolds
• 102 • The Great Judge • (1948) • short story by A. E. van Vogt
• 107 • 2001: A Love Story • (1976) • short story by Paul Dellinger
• 110 • Answer • (1954) • short story by Fredric Brown
• 111 • Hadj • (1956) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 116 • Good Morning! This Is the Future • (1962) • short story by Henry Slesar
• 121 • A Shape in Time • (1970) • short story by Anthony Boucher
• 124 • Linkage • (1973) • short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• 128 • Murder in the Nth Degree • (1980) • short story by Ron Montana [as by R. A. Montana]
• 132 • Useful Phrases for the Tourist • (1972) • short story by Joanna Russ
• 136 • The Burning • (1960) • short story by Theodore R. Cogswell
• 140 • One Small Step • (1980) • short story by Marcia Martin and Eric Vinicoff
• 143 • Dead End • (1957) • short story by Mack Reynolds
• 144 • Paths • (1973) • short story by Edward Bryant
• 148 • Woman's Work • (1956) • short story by
  Garen Drussaï^?Garen Drussai
• 152 • Death Double • (1963) • short story by William F. Nolan
• 156 • Tag • short story by Helen M. Urban [as by Helen Urban]
• 157 • Nightmare in Time • (1962) • short story by Fredric Brown (variant of The End 1961)
• 158 • The Nature of the Place • (1963) • short story by Robert Silverberg
• 160 • True Love • (1977) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 164 • The Game of the Name • (1980) • short story by Alice Laurance
• 168 • Down the Digestive Tract • (1971) • short story by Robert Sheckley (variant of Down the Digestive Tract and Into the Cosmos with Mantra, Tantra, and Specklebang)
• 170 • Upon My Soul • (1965) • short story by Jack Ritchie
• 174 • Drawing Board • (1980) • short story by Charles A. Spano, Jr.
• 175 • Shell Shock • (1974) • short story by Donald Franson
• 180 • Speak • (1965) • short story by Henry Slesar
• 182 • Your Cruel Face • (1976) • short story by Craig Strete
• 186 • The Best-Laid Plans... • (1980) • short story by Rick Conley
• 189 • Devil to Pay • (1957) • short story by Mack Reynolds
• 194 • Who Else Could I Count On? • [Wonder as I Wander: Some Footprints on John's Trail Through Magic Mountains] • (1964) • short story by Manly Wade Wellman (variant of Who Else Could I Count On 1962)
• 195 • The Rat and the Snake • (1971) • short story by A. E. van Vogt
• 198 • The Finest Hunter in the World • (1970) • short story by Harry Harrison
• 201 • Life • (1980) • short story by Dennis R. Caro
• 203 • Love Story • (1957) • short story by Eric Frank Russell
• 207 • Exile in Lakehurst • (1980) • short story by Robert Payes
• 209 • The Bait • [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] • (1973) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 212 • The Humanic Complex • (1978) • short story by Ray Russell
• 218 • Friends? • (1973) • short story by Roberta Ghidalia
• 222 • Take a Deep Breath • [The Other Side of the Sky] • (1957) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 226 • The Quest of the Infidel • (1980) • short story by Sherwood Springer
• 227 • Legal Rights for Germs? • (1977) • short story by Joseph F. Patrouch, Jr. [as by Joe Patrouch]
• 230 • Blood • (1955) • short story by Fredric Brown
• 231 • The Diana Syndrome • (1980) • short story by Ron Montana [as by R. A. Montana]
• 235 • Emergency Rations • (1953) • short story by Theodore R. Cogswell
• 240 • Buy Jupiter! • (1958) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 244 • The Old Man • (1962) • short story by Henry Slesar
• 248 • Exile's Greeting • (1980) • short story by Roland J. Green
• 253 • The Biography Project • (1951) • short story by H. L. Gold [as by Dudley Dell]
• 256 • The Grapes of the Rath • (1980) • short story by Jan Howard Finder
• 258 • Mr. Lupescu • (1945) • short story by Anthony Boucher
• 263 • What I Did During My Park Vacation • (1980) • short story by Ruth Berman
• 264 • A Fragment of Manuscript • (1980) • short story by Harry Harrison
• 267 • The Boy with Five Fingers • (1953) • short story by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 270 • The King of the Beasts • (1964) • short story by
  Philip José Farmer^?Philip Jose Farmer
• 272 • Displaced Person • (1948) • short story by Eric Frank Russell
• 275 • A Clone at Last • (1978) • short story by Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini
• 277 • X Marks the Pedwalk • (1963) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 282 • The Mission • (1980) • short story by Arthur Tofte
• 285 • Proof • (1972) • short story by F. M. Busby
• 291 • Dreamworld • (1955) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 292 • The Reunion • (1979) • short story by Paul J. Nahin
• 299 • The Futile Flight of John Arthur Benn • (1956) • short story by Richard Wilson [as by Edward Halibut]
• 300 • Servants of the Lord • short story by James A. Stevens [as by James Stevens]
• 302 • Mattie Harris, Galactic Spy • (1974) • short story by Rachel Cosgrove Payes
• 306 • Changeover • (1980) • short story by Juleen Brantingham
• 308 • Hometown • (1957) • short story by Richard Wilson
• 311 • The Penalty • (1962) • short story by Henry Slesar
• 313 • The Pill • (1972) • short story by Maggie Nadler
• 316 • The Final Battle • (1970) • short story by Harry Harrison
• 318 • Earthbound • (1963) • short story by Lester del Rey
• 320 • Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation • (1977) • short story by Larry Niven
• 324 • The Voice in the Garden • (1967) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 325 • If Eve Had Failed to Conceive • (1974) • short story by Edward Wellen