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• 9 • Introduction (The Great SF Stories 2 (1940)) • (1979) • essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• 13 • The Dwindling Sphere • (1940) • short story by Willard E. Hawkins [as by Willard Hawkins]
• 30 • The Automatic Pistol • (1940) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 46 • Hindsight • (1940) • short story by Jack Williamson
• 65 • Postpaid to Paradise • [Murchison Morks] • (1940) • short story by Robert Arthur
• 80 • Into the Darkness • [Darkness (Rocklynne)] • (1940) • novelette by Ross Rocklynne
• 108 • Dark Mission • (1940) • short story by Lester del Rey
• 125 • It • (1940) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• 149 • Vault of the Beast • (1940) • novelette by A. E. van Vogt
• 176 • The Impossible Highway • (1940) • short story by Oscar J. Friend
• 191 • Quietus • (1940) • short story by Ross Rocklynne
• 206 • Strange Playfellow • [The Positronic Robot Stories] • (1940) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 219 • The Warrior Race • (1940) • short story by L. Sprague de Camp
• 237 • Farewell to the Master • (1940) • novelette by Harry Bates
• 276 • Butyl and the Breather • [Ether Breather] • (1940) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 297 • The Exalted • [Johnny Black] • (1940) • novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
• 321 • Old Man Mulligan • (1940) • novelette by P. Schuyler Miller