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• ix • Preface (Science Fiction: The Future) • essay by Dick Allen
• 1 • Introduction (Science Fiction: The Future) • essay by Dick Allen
• 7 • First Perspectives • essay by Dick Allen
• 9 • Advice to a Prophet • (1959) • poem by Richard Wilbur
• 11 • No Way Out, No Way Back • (1969) • essay by Time Magazine
• 14 • The Human Race Has, Maybe, Thirty-Five Years Left • (1967) • essay by David Lyle
• 34 • Crab-Apple Crisis • (1966) • short story by George MacBeth (variant of Crab Apple Crisis)
• 42 • Earth's Holocaust • (1844) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 59 • Alternative Futures: The Present as Future • essay by Dick Allen
• 61 • Poem Rocket • (1960) • poem by Allen Ginsberg
• 64 • The Country of the Blind • (1904) • novelette by H. G. Wells
• 84 • Jachid and Jachidah • (1961) • short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer (trans. of Yahid un Yehidah 1964)
• 91 • They • (1941) • short story by Robert A. Heinlein
• 104 • The Artist • (1962) • poem by Kenneth Koch
• 112 • The Balloon • (1966) • short story by Donald Barthelme
• 117 • The Future • essay by Dick Allen
• 121 • To the Chicago Abyss • (1963) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 130 • Light of Other Days • [Slow Glass] • (1966) • short story by Bob Shaw
• 137 • Harrison Bergeron • (1961) • short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• 143 • The Green Hills of Earth • [Future History] • (1947) • short story by Robert A. Heinlein
• 153 • Tithonus • (1968) • poem by D. M. Thomas
• 158 • The Machine Stops • (1909) • novelette by E. M. Forster
• 184 • A Rose for Ecclesiastes • (1963) • novelette by Roger Zelazny
• 215 • "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman • (1965) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 225 • Day Million • (1966) • short story by Frederik Pohl
• 230 • History Lesson • (1949) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 238 • from The Time Machine (excerpt) • [H. G. Wells' Time Machine Universe] • (1962) • short fiction by H. G. Wells
• 243 • Theories • essay by Dick Allen
• 245 • Starting Points • (1960) • essay by Kingsley Amis
• 263 • Social Science Fiction • (1953) • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 291 • Science Fiction, Morals, and Religion • (1953) • essay by Gerald Heard
• 307 • The Boredom of Fantasy • (1955) • essay by Arthur Koestler
• 312 • The Imagination of Disaster • (1965) • essay by Susan Sontag
• 325 • The Future of Prediction • (1970) • essay by John P. Sisk
• 334 • Topics of Writing and Research (Science Fiction: The Future) • essay by uncredited
• 339 • Suggestions for Further Reading (Science Fiction: The Future) • essay by uncredited