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• The New Accelerator • (1901) • short story by H. G. Wells
• The Golem • (1955) • short story by Avram Davidson
• The Dwindling Sphere • (1940) • short story by Willard E. Hawkins
• The Custodian • (1953) • novelette by William Tenn
• The Cold Equations • [Cold Equations (Godwin)] • (1954) • novelette by Tom Godwin
• Seven-Day Terror • (1962) • short story by R. A. Lafferty
• Preface (Masters' Choice) • (1966) • essay by Laurence M. Janifer
• Memento Homo • (1954) • short story by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (variant of Death of a Spaceman)
• It's a Good Life • (1953) • short story by Jerome Bixby
• Helen O'Loy • (1938) • short story by Lester del Rey
• Don't Look Now • (1948) • short story by Henry Kuttner
• Coming Attraction • (1950) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• The Honor Roll • (1966) • essay by uncredited
• Bibliography (Masters' Choice) • (1966) • essay by uncredited
• The Bright Illusion • (1934) • short story by C. L. Moore
• Requiem • [D. D. Harriman] • (1940) • short story by Robert A. Heinlein
• Politics • (1932) • novelette by Murray Leinster
• And Now the News ... • (1956) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• Liar! • [Susan Calvin] • (1941) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• The Veldt • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• Theory of Rocketry • (1958) • short story by C. M. Kornbluth