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• The Last Question • [Multivac] • (1956) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• Zirn Left Unguarded, the Jenghik Palace in Flames, Jon Westerley Dead • (1972) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• Time Fuze • (1954) • short story by Randall Garrett
• Colony • (1953) • novelette by Philip K. Dick
• The Sword of Rhiannon (excerpt) • (1974) • short fiction by Leigh Brackett
• The Storm • [Mixed Men] • (1943) • novelette by A. E. van Vogt
• Sea Change • (1956) • short story by Thomas N. Scortia
• The Mitr • (1953) • short story by Jack Vance
• All Summer in a Day • [All Summer in a Day] • (1954) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• After Ixmal • (1962) • short story by Jeff Sutton
• The Paradox Men • (1949) • novelette by Charles L. Harness
• The Star of Life • (1947) • short story by Edmond Hamilton
• Tonight the Sky Will Fall! • [Tarl Brent] • (1952) • novella by Daniel F. Galouye
• Envoi (Space Opera) • (1974) • essay by Brian W. Aldiss
• The Godlike Machines • (1974) • essay by Brian W. Aldiss
• Exile Is Our Lot • (1974) • essay by Brian W. Aldiss
• "Precipices of Light That Went Forever Up ...." • (1974) • essay by Brian W. Aldiss
• Is Everything an Illusion? • (1974) • essay by Brian W. Aldiss
• Introduction (Space Opera) • (1974) • essay by Brian W. Aldiss
• Honeymoon in Space (excerpt) • [Stories of Other Worlds] • short fiction by George Griffith [as by George Griffiths]