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• Introduction (The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces) • (1983) • essay by Martin H. Greenberg and Robert Silverberg
• 11 • Mellonta Tauta • (1849) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 21 • In the Year 2889 • (1949) • short story by Jules Verne and Michel Verne (trans. of La journée d'un journaliste américain en 2890 1890) [as by Jules Verne]
• 32 • Sold to Satan • (1923) • short story by Mark Twain
• 39 • The New Accelerator • (1901) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 49 • Finis • (1940) • short story by Frank Lillie Pollock [as by Frank Lillie Pollack]
• 58 • As Easy As A. B. C. • [Aerial Board of Control • 2] • (1912) • novelette by Rudyard Kipling
• 78 • Dark Lot of One Saul • (1912) • novelette by M. P. Shiel
• 96 • R. U. R. • (1954) • novella by
  Karel Čapek^?Karel Capek
  Karel Chapek
  (trans. of R. U. R. 1920)
• 144 • The Tissue-Culture King • (1926) • novelette by Julian Huxley
• 160 • The Metal Man • (1928) • short story by Jack Williamson
• 169 • The Gostak and the Doshes • (1930) • short story by Miles J. Breuer, M.D.
• 182 • Alas, All Thinking! • (1935) • novelette by Harry Bates
• 210 • The Mad Moon • (1935) • novelette by Stanley G. Weinbaum
• 227 • As Never Was • (1944) • short story by P. Schuyler Miller
• 239 • Desertion • [City] • (1944) • short story by Clifford D. Simak
• 249 • The Strange Case of John Kingman • (1948) • short story by Murray Leinster
• 261 • Dreams Are Sacred • (1948) • novelette by Peter Phillips
• 279 • Misbegotten Missionary • (1950) • short story by Isaac Asimov (variant of Green Patches)
• 291 • Dune Roller • (1951) • novelette by Julian May
• 321 • Warm • (1953) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• 328 • A Bad Day for Sales • (1953) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 334 • Man of Parts • (1954) • short story by H. L. Gold
• 344 • The Man Who Came Early • (1956) • novelette by Poul Anderson
• 363 • The Burning of the Brain • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1958) • short story by Cordwainer Smith
• 371 • The Men Who Murdered Mohammed • (1958) • short story by Alfred Bester
• 381 • The Man Who Lost the Sea • (1959) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 391 • Goodlife • [Berserker (Fred Saberhagen)] • (1963) • short story by Fred Saberhagen
• 408 • The Sliced-Crosswise Only-on-Tuesday World • [Dayworld] • (1971) • short story by
  Philip José Farmer^?Philip Jose Farmer
• 420 • Gehenna • (1971) • short story by Barry N. Malzberg [as by K. M. O'Donnell]
• 424 • A Meeting with Medusa • [A Meeting with Medusa • 1] • (1971) • novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
• 455 • Painwise • (1972) • novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• 470 • Nobody's Home • (1972) • short story by Joanna Russ
• 482 • Think Only This of Me • (1973) • novelette by Michael Kurland
• 499 • Capricorn Games • (1974) • short story by Robert Silverberg
• 513 • "The Author of the Acacia Seeds" and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics • (1983) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin (variant of The Author of the Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics 1974)
• 519 • Travels • (1980) • short story by Carter Scholz
• 528 • Doing Lennon • (1975) • short story by Gregory Benford