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• 1 • Introduction (From Here to Forever) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 19 • Born of Skill and Money • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 22 • Born of Man and Woman • (1950) • short story by Richard Matheson
• 25 • Word Magic • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 27 • My Boy Friend's Name Is Jello • (1954) • short story by Avram Davidson
• 32 • A Canticle for the Fifties • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 35 • The First Canticle • [Saint Leibowitz] • (1955) • novelette by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (variant of A Canticle for Leibowitz)
• 57 • The Lodestone Genre • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 59 • Nobody Bothers Gus • [Gus] • (1955) • short story by Algis Budrys [as by Paul Janvier]
• 73 • Inferiority: The Complex Problem • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 75 • Flowers for Algernon • (1959) • novelette by Daniel Keyes
• 104 • A Question of Identity • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 107 • The Moon Moth • (1961) • novelette by Jack Vance
• 142 • The View from Outside • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 145 • The Library of Babel • (1962) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of La biblioteca de Babel 1941)
• 153 • Inner Concerns in Outer Space • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 156 • From Dune • [Dune] • short fiction by Frank Herbert
• 179 • The Vigor of Traditional SF • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 181 • Light of Other Days • [Slow Glass] • (1966) • short story by Bob Shaw
• 190 • Ambiguities and Inscrutabilities • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 192 • The First Sally (A), or Trurl's Electronic Bard • [Cyberiada (The Cyberiad)] • (1974) • short story by
  Stanisław Lem^?Stanislaw Lem
  (trans. of
  Wyprawa pierwsza A, czyli Elektrybałt Trurla^?Wyprawa pierwsza A, czyli Elektrybalt Trurla
  1965) [as by Stanislaw Lem]
• 204 • Entropy and the World View • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 206 • The Heat Death of the Universe • (1967) • short story by Pamela Zoline
• 221 • Speculations on Speculative Fiction • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 223 • The Planners • (1968) • short story by Kate Wilhelm
• 239 • The Alienness of the Alien • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 242 • The Dance of the Changer and the Three • (1968) • short story by Terry Carr
• 257 • The Virtues of Indirection • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 259 • The Last Flight of Dr. Ain • (1969) • short story by James Tiptree, Jr.
• 266 • Radical Sensibility • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 268 • Where No Sun Shines • (1970) • short story by Gardner Dozois
• 278 • Escape Reading • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 280 • The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories • [Archipelago] • (1970) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 297 • Understanding Reader Reaction • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 300 • Angouleme • (1971) • short story by Thomas M. Disch
• 317 • The Postwar Generation • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 319 • Gather Blue Roses • (1972) • short story by Pamela Sargent
• 325 • The Star Trek Syndrome • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 327 • With a Finger in My I • (1972) • short story by David Gerrold
• 338 • The Real and the Surreal • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 341 • The Ghost Writer • (1973) • short story by George Alec Effinger
• 352 • Of Men, and Women, and Society • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 354 • Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand • [Snake] • (1973) • novelette by Vonda N. McIntyre
• 375 • Of Novas and Other Stars • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 377 • Air Raid • (1977) • short story by John Varley
• 391 • Science Fiction, Aliens, and Alienation • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 395 • Uncoupling • (1975) • short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• 406 • Exotic Parables • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 408 • Rogue Tomato • (1975) • short story by Michael Bishop
• 421 • The Labor Day Group • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 423 • This Tower of Ashes • [Thousand Worlds] • (1976) • short story by George R. R. Martin
• 441 • Fiction and Science • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 443 • Particle Theory • (1977) • short story by Edward Bryant
• 446 • The Anthropology of the Future • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 468 • View from a Height • (1978) • short story by Joan D. Vinge
• 483 • Form and Content • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 485 • The Word Sweep • (1979) • short story by George Zebrowski
• 497 • Dialectic of History and Transcendence • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 499 • The World Science Fiction Convention of 2080 • (1980) • short story by Ian Watson
• 504 • Estranging the Everyday • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 506 • Abominable • (1980) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
• 515 • Science and Fiction • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 518 • Exposures • (1981) • short story by Gregory Benford