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• Introduction (News from the Moon) • essay by Brian Stableford
• News from the Moon • short story by Louis-Sébastien Mercier (trans. of Nouvelles de la Lune 1788)
• The Embalmed Hand • short story by Adrien Robert (trans. of La main embaumée 1867)
• The Future Phenomenon • (1992) • short story by
  Stéphane Mallarmé^?Stephane Mallarme
  (trans. of Le phénomène futur 1876)
• The Metaphysical Machine • short story by Jean Richepin (trans. of La machine à métaphysique 1876) [as by Jules Richepin]
• The Monkey King • [Saturnin Farandoul] • short story by Albert Robida (trans. of Le roi des singes 1882)
• The Historioscope • short story by Eugène Mouton (trans. of L'historioscope 1883)
• Tony Wandel's Heart • short story by Georges Eekhoud (trans. of
  Le cœur de Tony Wandel^?Le coeur de Tony Wandel
  1884)
• Martian Mankind • (2004) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of L'homme de Mars 1887)
• The Red Triangle • short story by Fernand Noat (trans. of Le triangle rouge 1902)