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• xv • Dictionaries • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 3 • Too Soon to Die • [Ragnarok] • (1957) • novelette by Tom Godwin
• 36 • A Museum Piece • (1963) • short story by Roger Zelazny
• 44 • Why Johnny Can't Speed • (1971) • short story by Alan Dean Foster
• 54 • Man in a Quandary • (1958) • short story by Joseph Wesley [as by L. J. Stecher, Jr.]
• 61 • The Cabbage Patch • (1952) • short story by Theodore R. Cogswell
• 65 • A Touch of Grapefruit • (1959) • short story by Richard Matheson
• 76 • Answer • (1954) • short story by Fredric Brown
• 78 • A Gun for Dinosaur • [Reginald Rivers] • (1956) • novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
• 101 • A Pail of Air • (1951) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 112 • The Odor of Thought • (1953) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• 122 • The Last Monster • (1951) • short story by Poul Anderson (variant of Terminal Quest)
• 138 • History Lesson • (1949) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 146 • The Troublemaker • [Federation of Humanity] • (1960) • short story by Christopher Anvil
• 161 • The Game of Rat and Dragon • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1955) • short story by Cordwainer Smith
• 174 • Let's Be Frank • (1957) • short story by Brian W. Aldiss
• 182 • The Easy Way Out • (1966) • short story by G. Harry Stine [as by Lee Correy]
• 192 • All Cats Are Gray • (1953) • short story by Andre Norton
• 198 • The Man from Earth • (1964) • short story by Gordon R. Dickson
• 210 • Dream Damsel • (1954) • short story by Evan Hunter
• 219 • The Underdweller • (1974) • short story by William F. Nolan (variant of Small World 1957)
• 230 • Top Secret • (1956) • short story by Eric Frank Russell
• 244 • One Love Have I • (1955) • short story by Robert F. Young
• 258 • The Snowball Effect • (1952) • short story by Katherine MacLean
• 270 • The Santa Claus Problem • (1979) • short story by J. W. Schutz
• 275 • The Ship Who Sang • [The Ship Who ...] • (1961) • novelette by Anne McCaffrey
• 291 • No Harm Done • (1961) • short story by Jack Sharkey
• 296 • There Will Come Soft Rains • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 301 • In the Jaws of Danger • [Dr. Dillingham] • (1967) • short story by Piers Anthony
• 314 • In the Abyss • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 326 • Custer's Last Jump • (1976) • novelette by Steven Utley and Howard Waldrop
• 352 • Game Preserve • (1957) • short story by Rog Phillips
• 365 • Life Hutch • [Earth-Kyba War] • (1956) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 376 • The Silk and the Song • (1956) • novelette by Charles L. Fontenay
• 399 • Down to the Worlds of Men • (1963) • novelette by Alexei Panshin
• 423 • Robbie • [The Positronic Robot Stories] • (1950) • short story by Isaac Asimov (variant of Strange Playfellow 1940)
• 439 • The Man with English • (1953) • short story by H. L. Gold [as by Horace L. Gold]
• 447 • Transstar • (1960) • novelette by Raymond E. Banks
• 468 • Open Warfare • (1954) • novelette by James E. Gunn
• 486 • The Long Way Home • (1961) • short story by Fred Saberhagen
• 499 • Skirmish on a Summer Morning • (1976) • novella by Bob Shaw
• 536 • Gantlet • (1972) • short story by Richard E. Peck
• 546 • Saucer of Loneliness • (1953) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon (variant of A Saucer of Loneliness)
• 557 • The Mother of Necessity • (1955) • short story by Chad Oliver
• 568 • The Great Secret • (1959) • short story by George H. Smith
• 571 • The Draw • (1954) • short story by Jerome Bixby
• 587 • For the Sake of Grace • [Coyote Jones] • (1969) • novelette by Suzette Haden Elgin
• 606 • A Death in the House • (1959) • novelette by Clifford D. Simak
• 622 • Creature of the Snows • (1960) • short story by William Sambrot
• 631 • A Criminal Act • (1966) • short story by Harry Harrison
• 642 • The Cage • (1957) • short story by A. Bertram Chandler