Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 9 • Introduction (The Worlds of Science Fiction) • (1963) • essay by Robert P. Mills
• 13 • The First Men • (1960) • novelette by Howard Fast
• 49 • A Work of Art • (1956) • short story by James Blish
• 71 • Evening Primrose • (1940) • short story by John Collier
• 87 • Memento Homo • (1954) • short story by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (variant of Death of a Spaceman)
• 109 • A Miracle of Rare Device • (1962) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 127 • "All You Zombies ..." • (1959) • short story by Robert A. Heinlein
• 143 • Faq' • (1952) • short story by George P. Elliott
• 157 • Babel II • (1953) • novelette by Damon Knight
• 187 • A Saucer of Loneliness • (1953) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 205 • Night Piece • (1961) • short story by Poul Anderson
• 225 • Now Let Us Sleep • (1957) • short story by Avram Davidson
• 241 • The Strange Girl • (1950) • short story by Mark Van Doren
• 249 • The Quest for Saint Aquin • (1951) • novelette by Anthony Boucher
• 273 • The War in the Air • (1952) • short story by R. V. Cassill
• 293 • The Ugly Little Boy • (1958) • novelette by Isaac Asimov (variant of Lastborn)
• 340 • Epilogue: My Private World of Science Fiction • essay by Alfred Bester (variant of My Private World of Science Fiction (Epilogue) 1963)