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• 7 • Editors' Preface (The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1953) • (1953) • essay by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty
• 11 • Trematode, a Critique of Modern Science-Fiction • (1953) • essay by Alfred Bester
• 23 • The Fly • (1952) • short story by Arthur Porges
• 28 • Ararat • [The People] • (1952) • novelette by Zenna Henderson
• 53 • Counter-Transference • (1952) • novelette by William F. Temple
• 76 • The Conqueror • (1952) • short story by Mark Clifton
• 85 • Machine • (1952) • short story by John Jakes
• 89 • The Middle of the Week After Next • [Thaddeus Binder • 1] • (1952) • short story by Murray Leinster
• 106 • The Dreamer • (1952) • short story by Alfred Coppel
• 111 • The Moon Is Green • (1952) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 128 • I Am Nothing • (1952) • short story by Eric Frank Russell
• 151 • Command Performance • (1952) • short story by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• 170 • Survival • (1952) • novelette by John Wyndham
• 198 • Game for Blondes • (1952) • short story by John D. MacDonald
• 208 • The Girls from Earth • (1952) • novelette by Frank M. Robinson
• 229 • Lover, When You're Near Me • (1952) • novelette by Richard Matheson (variant of Lover When You're Near Me)
• 255 • Fast Falls the Eventide • (1952) • short story by Eric Frank Russell
• 277 • About the Authors (The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1953) • essay by uncredited