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• 7 • Preface (The History of the Science Fiction Magazine Part 1 1926-1935) • (1974) • essay by Mike Ashley
• 11 • Introduction: An Amazing Experiment • (1974) • essay by Mike Ashley
• 52 • The Coming of the Ice • (1926) • short story by G. Peyton Wertenbaker
• 67 • The Machine Man of Ardathia • [Ardathia] • (1927) • short story by Francis Flagg
• 82 • Out of the Sub-Universe • (1928) • short story by R. F. Starzl
• 91 • The Eternal Man • [Herbert Zulerich • 1] • (1929) • short story by D. D. Sharp
• 99 • The Power and the Glory • (1930) • short story by Charles Willard Diffin
• 107 • The Voice from the Ether • (1931) • novelette by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach (variant of A Voice from the Ether)
• 136 • The Asteroid of Gold • (1932) • short story by Clifford D. Simak
• 153 • The Island of Unreason • (1933) • short story by Edmond Hamilton
• 172 • One Prehistoric Night • (1934) • short story by Philip Barshofsky
• 187 • Davey Jones' Ambassador • (1935) • novelette by Raymond Z. Gallun
• 218 • Appendices (The History of the Science Fiction Magazine, Volume 1: 1926-1935) • (1974) • essay by Mike Ashley