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• 1 • Introduction (Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction) • essay by Sam Moskowitz
• 19 • The Vortex Blaster • [Vortex Blaster] • (1941) • short story by Edward E. Smith
• 44 • Night • [Twilight • 2] • (1935) • short story by John W. Campbell, Jr.
• 69 • A Logic Named Joe • (1946) • short story by Murray Leinster
• 89 • Requiem • (1962) • short story by Edmond Hamilton
• 111 • With Folded Hands ... • [Humanoids] • (1947) • novelette by Jack Williamson
• 165 • Adaptation • (1949) • short story by John Wyndham
• 186 • The Witness • (1951) • novelette by Eric Frank Russell
• 213 • The Command • [Johnny Black] • (1938) • short story by L. Sprague de Camp
• 230 • Kindness • (1944) • short story by Lester del Rey
• 248 • We Also Walk Dogs • [Future History] • (1958) • novelette by Robert A. Heinlein (variant of
  "—We Also Walk Dogs"^?"-We Also Walk Dogs"
  1941)
• 277 • Enchanted Village • (1950) • short story by A. E. van Vogt
• 295 • Liar! • [Susan Calvin] • (1941) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 316 • Microcosmic God • (1941) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• 350 • Huddling Place • [City] • (1944) • short story by Clifford D. Simak
• 372 • Coming Attraction • (1950) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 389 • Doorway Into Time • (1943) • short story by C. L. Moore
• 412 • We Guard the Black Planet! • (1942) • novelette by Henry Kuttner
• 449 • The Strange Flight of Richard Clayton • (1939) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 461 • Wake for the Living • (1947) • short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of The Coffin)
• 471 • Before Eden • (1961) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 485 • Mother • (1953) • novelette by
  Philip José Farmer^?Philip Jose Farmer