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• Thunder and Roses • (1947) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• Shambleau • [Northwest Smith] • (1933) • novelette by C. L. Moore
• Rescue Party • (1946) • novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
• Quietus • (1940) • short story by Ross Rocklynne
• The Only Thing We Learn • (1949) • short story by C. M. Kornbluth
• The Last Question • [Multivac] • (1956) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• Black Destroyer • [Space Beagle] • (1939) • novelette by A. E. van Vogt
• Answer • (1954) • short story by Fredric Brown
• Goblin Night • [Telzey Amberdon] • (1965) • novelette by James H. Schmitz
• The Last Command • [Bolo] • (1967) • short story by Keith Laumer
• Hunting Problem • (1955) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• A Gun for Dinosaur • [Reginald Rivers] • (1956) • novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
• Trigger Tide • (1950) • short story by Wyman Guin
• Code Three • [Code Three] • (1963) • novella by Rick Raphael
• The Aliens • (1959) • novelette by Murray Leinster
• The Gentle Earth • (1957) • novella by Christopher Anvil
• Omnilingual • [Federation • 1] • (1957) • novelette by H. Beam Piper
• The Cold Equations • [Cold Equations (Godwin)] • (1954) • novelette by Tom Godwin
• All the Way Back • (1952) • short story by Michael Shaara
• A Pail of Air • (1951) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• Environment • (1944) • short story by Chester S. Geier
• Liane the Wayfarer • [Dying Earth] • (1950) • short story by Jack Vance
• Turning Point • (1963) • short story by Poul Anderson
• Thy Rocks and Rills • (1953) • novelette by Robert E. Gilbert [as by Robert Ernest Gilbert]
• St. Dragon and the George • [The Dragon and the George] • (1957) • novelette by Gordon R. Dickson
• Spawn • (1939) • novelette by P. Schuyler Miller
• Heavy Planet • (1939) • short story by Milton A. Rothman [as by Lee Gregor]
• Who Goes There? • [Who Goes There?] • (1966) • novella by John W. Campbell, Jr. [as by John W. Campbell]
• Preface (The World Turned Upside Down) • essay by Eric Flint
• The Menace from Earth • [Future History] • (1974) • novelette by Robert A. Heinlein [as by Robert Heinlein]