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• 9 • Introduction (The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: 60th Anniversary Anthology) • (2009) • essay by Gordon Van Gelder
• 11 • Of Time and Third Avenue • (1951) • short story by Alfred Bester
• 21 • All Summer in a Day • [All Summer in a Day] • (1954) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 29 • One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts • non-genre • (1955) • short story by Shirley Jackson
• 41 • A Touch of Strange • (1958) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 55 • Eastward Ho! • (1958) • short story by William Tenn
• 71 • Flowers for Algernon • (1959) • novelette by Daniel Keyes
• 101 • Harrison Bergeron • (1961) • short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. [as by Kurt Vonnegut]
• 109 • This Moment of the Storm • (1966) • novelette by Roger Zelazny
• 141 • The Electric Ant • (1969) • short story by Philip K. Dick
• 161 • The Deathbird • (1973) • novelette by Harlan Ellison
• 191 • The Women Men Don't See • (1973) • novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• 221 • I See You • (1976) • short story by Damon Knight
• 235 • The Gunslinger • [Roland] • (1978) • novelette by Stephen King
• 279 • The Dark • (1991) • short story by Karen Joy Fowler
• 297 • Buffalo • (1991) • short story by John Kessel
• 315 • Solitude • [Hainish] • (1994) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 343 • Mother Grasshopper • (1997) • short story by Michael Swanwick
• 361 • macs • (1999) • short story by Terry Bisson
• 371 • Creation • (2002) • short story by Jeffrey Ford
• 383 • Other People • (2001) • short story by Neil Gaiman
• 387 • Two Hearts • [The Last Unicorn] • (2005) • novelette by Peter S. Beagle
• 423 • Journey Into the Kingdom • (2006) • novelette by M. Rickert
• 451 • The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate • (2007) • novelette by Ted Chiang