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• vii • Preface (18 Greatest Science Fiction Stories) • (1966) • essay by Laurence M. Janifer
• 1 • Liar! • [Susan Calvin] • (1941) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 19 • It's a Good Life • (1953) • short story by Jerome Bixby
• 37 • The Veldt • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 52 • The Golem • (1955) • short story by Avram Davidson
• 58 • Helen O'Loy • (1938) • short story by Lester del Rey
• 69 • The Cold Equations • [Cold Equations (Godwin)] • (1954) • novelette by Tom Godwin
• 95 • The Dwindling Sphere • (1940) • short story by Willard E. Hawkins [as by Willard Hawkins]
• 112 • Requiem • [D. D. Harriman] • (1940) • short story by Robert A. Heinlein
• 130 • Theory of Rocketry • (1958) • short story by C. M. Kornbluth
• 145 • Don't Look Now • (1948) • short story by Henry Kuttner
• 159 • Seven-Day Terror • (1962) • short story by R. A. Lafferty
• 166 • Coming Attraction • (1950) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 180 • Politics • (1932) • novelette by Murray Leinster
• 209 • Memento Homo • (1954) • short story by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (variant of Death of a Spaceman)
• 227 • The Bright Illusion • (1934) • short story by C. L. Moore
• 253 • And Now the News • (1956) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon (variant of And Now the News ...)
• 274 • The Custodian • (1953) • novelette by William Tenn
• 295 • The New Accelerator • (1901) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 309 • The Honor Roll • (1966) • essay by Laurence M. Janifer