Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 9 • Preface (Past, Present, and Future Perfect) • essay by Gregory Fitz Gerald and Jack C. Wolf
• 14 • Introduction (Past, Present, and Future Perfect) • essay by Gregory Fitz Gerald and Jack C. Wolf
• 22 • Welcome to the Monkey House • (1968) • short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• 44 • The Sentinel • [A Space Odyssey] • (1951) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 56 • A Discovery in the Woods • (1963) • short story by Graham Greene
• 80 • The Veldt • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 98 • Judas • (1967) • short story by John Brunner
• 108 • Eutopia • (1967) • novelette by Poul Anderson
• 131 • The Morning of the Day They Did It • (1950) • short story by E. B. White
• 151 • Walden Two (excerpt, chapter 29) • short fiction by B. F. Skinner
• 178 • The Immortal Fish • (1957) • short story by Elizabeth Mann Borgese [as by Elizabeth M. Borgese]
• 194 • Year Nine • (1938) • short story by Cyril Connolly
• 202 • The Feeling of Power • (1958) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 215 • New Folks' Home • (1963) • novelette by Clifford D. Simak
• 246 • The Poison Belt (excerpt) • [Professor Challenger] • short fiction by Arthur Conan Doyle
• 263 • The Ingenious Patriot • [Fantastic Fables] • (1891) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 265 • The Star • (1897) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 279 • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (excerpt) • (1889) • short fiction by Mark Twain
• 293 • Looking Backward (excerpt) • (1888) • short fiction by Edward Bellamy
• 309 • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (excerpt) • [Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (abridgments, adaptations, and excerpts)] • short fiction by Jules Verne
• 318 • Erewhon, or Over the Range (excerpt) • short fiction by Samuel Butler
• 330 • The Balloon-Hoax • (1844) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 346 • The Birthmark • (1854) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne (variant of The Birth-Mark 1843)
• 367 • The Last Man (excerpt) • (1826) • short fiction by Mary Shelley [as by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley]
• 390 • Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (excerpt) • [Frankenstein] • short fiction by Mary Shelley [as by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley]
• 403 • Gulliver's Travels (excerpt) • short fiction by Jonathan Swift
• 427 • Micromégas • short story by Voltaire (trans. of Micromégas 1752)
• 427 • A Voyage to the Moon (excerpt) • [Les états et empires de la Lune et du Soleil] • short fiction by Cyrano de Bergerac
• 460 • The New Atlantis (excerpt) • (1950) • short fiction by Francis Bacon
• 481 • The City of the Sun (excerpt) • short fiction by Tommaso Campanella
• 488 • Utopia (excerpt) • short fiction by Sir Thomas More
• 521 • A True History (excerpt) • short fiction by Lucian of Samosata (variant of A True Story (excerpt) 1965)
• 535 • Critias, or The Island of Atlantis (excerpt) • short fiction by Plato