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• 9 • A Sort of Introduction (The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1950) • (1950) • essay by Vincent Starrett (variant of A Sort of Introduction)
• 17 • Preface (The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1950) • (1950) • essay by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty
• 29 • Private Eye • (1949) • novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
• 66 • Doomsday Deferred • (1949) • short story by Murray Leinster [as by Will F. Jenkins]
• 85 • The Hurkle Is a Happy Beast • (1949) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 96 • Eternity Lost • (1949) • novelette by Clifford D. Simak
• 132 • Easter Eggs • (1949) • novelette by Robert S. Carr
• 173 • Opening Doors • [Children of the Atom] • (1949) • novelette by Wilmar H. Shiras
• 218 • Five Years in the Marmalade • (1949) • short story by Robert W. Krepps
• 237 • Dwellers in Silence • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1949) • short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of The Long Years 1948)
• 253 • Mouse • (1949) • short story by Fredric Brown
• 266 • Refuge for Tonight • (1949) • novelette by Robert Moore Williams
• 300 • The Life-Work of Professor Muntz • (1949) • short story by Murray Leinster
• 316 • Flaw • (1949) • short story by John D. MacDonald
• 326 • The Man • (1949) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 343 • About the Authors (The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1950) • (1950) • essay by uncredited