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• ix • Science Fiction as Prophecy • essay by Robert Silverberg
• xix • Preface (Visions of Tomorrow: Science Fiction Predictions that Came True) • essay by Judith K. Dial and Thomas A. Easton
• 3 • The Balloon Hoax • (1905) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of The Balloon-Hoax 1844)
• 19 • The Land Ironclads • (1903) • novelette by H. G. Wells
• 45 • Deadline • (1944) • novelette by Cleve Cartmill
• 77 • The Prize of Peril • (1958) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• 99 • Directed Energy • (2006) • short story by Jeff Hecht
• 104 • Matchmaker • [Jimmy Brane] • (1990) • short story by Thomas A. Easton
• 119 • A Logic Named Joe • (1946) • short story by Murray Leinster
• 139 • The Scarred Man • (1970) • short story by Gregory Benford
• 155 • The Infodict • (2001) • short story by James Van Pelt
• 167 • E-Mage • (1999) • novelette by Rajnar Vajra
• 197 • How We Saved the Human Race • (1972) • novelette by David Gerrold
• 227 • Misprint • (2008) • short story by Vonda N. McIntyre
• 232 • Excellence • (2009) • short story by Richard A. Lovett
• 245 • The Mechanic • (1966) • novelette by Hal Clement
• 283 • Skystalk • (1979) • novelette by Charles Sheffield