Contents (view Concise Listing)

•  Science Fiction Puzzle Tales • interior artwork by Martin Gardner
• vii • Foreword (Science Fiction Puzzles) • (1981) • essay by Isaac Asimov
• xi • Preface (Science Fiction Puzzles) • (1981) • essay by Martin Gardner
• xii • How to Use This Book • (1981) • essay by Martin Gardner
• 3 • Lost on Capra • [SF Puzzles] • (1977) • short story by Martin Gardner
• 5 • The Doctors' Dilemma • [SF Puzzles] • (1977) • short story by Martin Gardner
• 6 • Space Pool • [SF Puzzles] • (1977) • short story by Martin Gardner
• 8 • Machismo on Byronia • [SF Puzzles] • (1977) • short story by Martin Gardner
• 9 • The Defective Doyles • [SF Puzzles] • (1978) • short story by Martin Gardner (variant of The Case of the Defective Doyles)
• 10 • The Third Dr. Moreau • [SF Puzzles] • (1978) • short story by Martin Gardner
• 11 • The Voyage of the Bagel • [SF Puzzles] • (1978) • short story by Martin Gardner
• 12 • The Great Ring of Neptune • [SF Puzzles] • (1978) • short story by Martin Gardner
• 13 • The Toroids of Dr. Klonefake • [SF Puzzles] • (1978) • short story by Martin Gardner
• 15 • The Postage Stamps of Philo Tate • [SF Puzzles] • (1978) • short story by Martin Gardner
• 17 • Captain Tittlebaum's Test • [SF Puzzles] • (1979) • short story by Martin Gardner
• 20 • Exploring Carter's Crater • [SF Puzzles] • (1979) • short story by Martin Gardner
• 22 • Pink, Blue, and Green • [SF Puzzles] • (1979) • short story by Martin Gardner
• 23 • The Three Robots of Professor Tinker • [SF Puzzles] • (1979) • short story by Martin Gardner
• 24 • How Bagson Bagged a Board Game • [SF Puzzles] • (1979) • short story by Martin Gardner
• 26 • The Shop on Bedford Street • [SF Puzzles] • (1979) • short story by Martin Gardner
• 28 • Tanya Tackles Topology • [SF Puzzles] • (1979) • short story by Martin Gardner
• 30 • The Explosion of Blabbage's Oracle • [SF Puzzles] • (1979) • short story by Martin Gardner
• 32 • Dracula Makes a Martini • [SF Puzzles] • (1979) • short story by Martin Gardner
• 33 • The Erasing of Philbert the Fudger • [SF Puzzles] • (1979) • short story by Martin Gardner
• 36 • Oulipo Wordplay • [SF Puzzles] • (1979) • short story by Martin Gardner (variant of On Oulipo Algorithms, Anagrams, and Other Nonsense)
• 37 • How Crock and Witson Cracked a Code • [SF Puzzles] • (1979) • short story by Martin Gardner (variant of How Crock and Watkins Cracked a Code)
• 38 • Titan's Titanic Symbol • [SF Puzzles] • (1980) • short story by Martin Gardner
• 40 • Professor Cracker's Antitelephone • [SF Puzzles] • (1980) • short story by Martin Gardner
• 41 • Vacation on the Moon • [SF Puzzles] • (1980) • short story by Martin Gardner
• 43 • Weird Numbers from Titan • [SF Puzzles] • (1980) • short story by Martin Gardner
• 45 • Lucifer at Las Vegas • [SF Puzzles] • (1980) • short story by Martin Gardner
• 46 • Off We're Going to Shuttle • [SF Puzzles] • (1980) • short story by Martin Gardner
• 48 • The Backward Banana • [SF Puzzles] • (1980) • short story by Martin Gardner
• 50 • The Queer Story of Gardner's Magazine • [SF Puzzles] • (1980) • short story by Martin Gardner
• 53 • Blabbage's Decision Paradox • [SF Puzzles] • (1980) • short story by Martin Gardner (variant of G. Hovah's Decision Paradox)
• 55 • No Vacancy at Aleph-Null Inn • [SF Puzzles] • (1980) • short story by Martin Gardner
• 57 • Tube Through the Earth • [SF Puzzles] • (1980) • short story by Martin Gardner
• 58 • Robots of Oz • [SF Puzzles] • (1980) • short story by Martin Gardner
• 61 • The Dance of the Jolly Green Digits • [SF Puzzles] • (1981) • short story by Martin Gardner
• 63 • The Bagel Heads Home • [SF Puzzles] • (1981) • short story by Martin Gardner
• 67 • First Answers (Science Fiction Puzzle Tales) • essay by Martin Gardner
• 103 • Second Answers (Science Fiction Puzzle Tales) • essay by Martin Gardner
• 129 • Third Answers (Science Fiction Puzzle Tales) • essay by Martin Gardner
• 147 • Bibliography (Science Fiction Puzzle Tales) • essay by Martin Gardner