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• vii • Introduction (Nova 3) • essay by Harry Harrison
• 3 • Welcome to the Standard Nightmare • short story by Robert Sheckley
• 23 • The Expensive Delicate Ship • short story by Brian W. Aldiss
• 31 • Dreaming and Conversions: Two Rules by Which to Live • short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• 43 • Breakout in Ecol 2 • short story by David R. Bunch
• 51 • The Cold War ... Continued • [Homer Crawford] • novelette by Mack Reynolds
• 87 • The Factory • short story by Naomi Mitchison
• 93 • The Defensive Bomber • short story by Harry Harrison [as by Hank Dempsey]
• 113 • Endorsement, Personal • short story by Dean McLaughlin
• 119 • The National Pastime • novelette by Norman Spinrad
• 143 • The Ultimate End • short story by Dick Glass
• 157 • Pity the Poor Outdated Man • short story by Philip Shofner
• 179 • The Exhibition • short story by Scott Edelstein
• 191 • Sketches Among the Ruins of My Mind • novelette by Philip José Farmer