• Publication: Science Fiction and FantasyPublication Record # 29089
• Editor: Fred Obrecht
• Date: 1977-00-00
• ISBN: 0-812-00651-8 [978-0-8120-0651-3]
• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
• Pages: 256
• Format:
  tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• External IDs:
  • Goodreads: 3801089
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 1735561

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• The Great Nebraska Sea • (1963) • short story by Allan Danzig
• A Bad Day for Sales • (1953) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• Helen O'Loy • (1938) • short story by Lester del Rey
• Fondly Fahrenheit • (1954) • novelette by Alfred Bester
• In the Matter of the Assassin Merefirs • (1972) • short story by Ken W. Purdy
• The Man Inside • (1969) • short story by Bruce McAllister
• Of Course • (1954) • short story by Chad Oliver
• Men Are Different • (1954) • short story by Alan Bloch
• The Fun They Had • juvenile • (1951) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• Utopia (excerpt) • (1516) • short fiction by Sir Thomas More
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (excerpt) • [Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (abridgments, adaptations, and excerpts)] • (1956) • short fiction by Jules Verne
• from The Time Machine (excerpt) • [H. G. Wells' Time Machine Universe] • (1962) • short fiction by H. G. Wells
• Eat, Drink, and Be Merry • (1974) • short story by Dian Girard
• In the Year Ten Thousand • (1892) • short story by Will N. Harben [as by William Harben]
• Christmas 200,000 B.C. • (1887) • short story by Stanley Waterloo
• August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1951) • short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of There Will Come Soft Rains 1950)
• Erem • (1963) • short story by
  Глеб Анфилов^?Gleb Anfilov
  (trans. of
  ЭРЭМ^?EREM
  1962) [as by Gleb Anfilov]
• Nighteen Eighty-Four (excerpt) • [Nineteen Eighty-Four] • short fiction by George Orwell
• Brave New World (excerpt) • (1932) • short fiction by Aldous Huxley
• Looking Backward (excerpt) • (1888) • short fiction by Edward Bellamy
• The War of the Worlds (excerpt) • [The War of the Worlds] • (1966) • short fiction by H. G. Wells
• R.U.R. (Excerpt) • short fiction by
  Karel Čapek^?Karel Capek
  Karel Chapek
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Excerpt) • [Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde excerpts] • short fiction by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Frankenstein (excerpt) • [Frankenstein] • short fiction by Mary Shelley [as by Mary W. Shelley]
• From the Earth to the Moon (excerpt) • [Baltimore Gun Club] • (1956) • short fiction by Jules Verne
• Report from the Planet Proteus • (1972) • poem by Lawrence Sail
• Some Recommended Reading • essay by uncredited
• Bibliography (Science Fiction and Fantasy) • essay by uncredited
• Appendix I: Short Story Structure and Point of View • essay by Fred Obrecht
• Alternate Arrangements of Contents • essay by uncredited
• Extension? Prediction? Fantasy? • essay by Fred Obrecht
• Changing the World for Better or Worse • essay by Fred Obrecht
• Traffic with the Planets • essay by Fred Obrecht
• Some Fun with Space Jargon • essay by Fred Obrecht
• Going a Step Further-ROBOTS • essay by Fred Obrecht
• Tampering with Human Nature • essay by Fred Obrecht
• The Early Challenge of Space and Time • essay by Fred Obrecht
• Introduction (Science Fiction and Fantasy) • essay by Fred Obrecht
• Preface (Science Fiction and Fantasy) • essay by Fred Obrecht