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•  Approaches to Science Fiction • interior artwork by Edith Allard
• ix • Preface (Approaches to Science Fiction) • essay by Donald L. Lawler
• 1 • Introduction (Approaches to Science Fiction) • essay by Donald L. Lawler
• 29 • Part 1: Nineteenth-Century Backgrounds (Approaches to Science Fiction) • essay by Donald L. Lawler
• 32 • Darkness • (1816) • poem by Lord George Gordon Byron
• 36 • Frankenstein (excerpt) • [Frankenstein] • short fiction by Mary Shelley
• 58 • Some Words with a Mummy • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 72 • The Birthmark • (1854) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne (variant of The Birth-Mark 1843)
• 86 • The Star • (1897) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 97 • Part 2: Fantasy Science Fiction (Approaches to Science Fiction) • essay by Donald L. Lawler
• 99 • Space Opera (Approaches to Science Fiction) • essay by Donald L. Lawler
• 101 • Enchantress of Venus • [Eric John Stark] • (1949) • novella by Leigh Brackett
• 154 • Speculative Fantasy Science Fiction (Approaches to Science Fiction) • essay by Donald L. Lawler
• 156 • Mars Is Heaven! • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1948) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 172 • Encounter in the Dawn • [A Space Odyssey] • (1953) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 183 • Weird Science Fiction (Approaches to Science Fiction) • essay by Donald L. Lawler
• 185 • The Nine Billion Names of God • (1953) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 192 • The Mindworm • (1950) • short story by C. M. Kornbluth [as by Cyril Kornbluth]
• 204 • Time Travel and Parallel Worlds (Approaches to Science Fiction) • essay by Donald L. Lawler
• 206 • "All You Zombies ..." • (1959) • short story by Robert A. Heinlein
• 218 • All the Myriad Ways • [Time Travel - Parallel Universe] • (1968) • short story by Larry Niven
• 227 • Part 3: Hard Science Fiction (Approaches to Science Fiction) • essay by Donald L. Lawler
• 230 • Speculative Hard Science Fiction (Approaches to Science Fiction) • essay by Donald L. Lawler
• 232 • The Cold Equations • [Cold Equations (Godwin)] • (1954) • novelette by Tom Godwin
• 253 • Dark Benediction • (1951) • novella by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• 299 • Aliens (Approaches to Science Fiction) • essay by Donald L. Lawler
• 301 • Berom • (1951) • short story by John Berryman
• 319 • First Contact • (1945) • novelette by Murray Leinster
• 346 • Robots (Approaches to Science Fiction) • essay by Donald L. Lawler
• 348 • Liar! • [Susan Calvin] • (1941) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 364 • Happy Ending • (1948) • novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner]
• 381 • Part 4: Soft Science Fiction (Approaches to Science Fiction) • essay by Donald L. Lawler
• 383 • Speculative Soft Science Fiction (Approaches to Science Fiction) • essay by Donald L. Lawler
• 385 • Nine Lives • (1969) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 408 • The Sliced-Crosswise Only-on-Tuesday World • [Dayworld] • (1971) • short story by
  Philip José Farmer^?Philip Jose Farmer
• 422 • Utopias and Dystopias (Approaches to Science Fiction) • essay by Donald L. Lawler
• 425 • When the Vertical World Becomes Horizontal • (1974) • short story by Alexei Panshin
• 441 • The Star Beast • (1950) • novelette by Poul Anderson
• 465 • Social Science Fiction (Approaches to Science Fiction) • essay by Donald L. Lawler
• 467 • Baby, You Were Great! • (1967) • short story by Kate Wilhelm
• 480 • Coming Attraction • (1950) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 493 • Part 5: Science Fiction Mixtures (Approaches to Science Fiction) • essay by Donald L. Lawler
• 494 • Mystery and Horror Science Fiction (Approaches to Science Fiction) • essay by Donald L. Lawler
• 496 • Who Goes There? • [Who Goes There?] • (1946) • novella by John W. Campbell, Jr. [as by Don A. Stuart]
• 543 • Comic Science Fiction (Approaches to Science Fiction) • essay by Donald L. Lawler
• 545 • Zirn Left Unguarded, the Jenghik Palace in Flames, Jon Westerley Dead • (1972) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• 551 • Selected Bibliography (Approaches to Science Fiction) • essay by uncredited
• 557 • Index (Approaches to Science Fiction) • essay by uncredited