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• 5 • Introduzione (Le grandi storie della fantascienza 15) • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 9 • La grande vacanza • short fiction by Fritz Leiber (trans. of The Big Holiday 1953)
• 19 • Crucifixus etiam • short story by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (trans. of Crucifixus Etiam 1953) [as by Walter Miller, Jr.]
• 41 • Quattro in uno • short fiction by Damon Knight (trans. of Four in One 1953)
• 73 • Disco di solitudine • short fiction by Theodore Sturgeon (trans. of A Saucer of Loneliness 1953)
• 87 • La liberazione della Terra • short fiction by William Tenn (trans. of The Liberation of Earth 1953)
• 105 • Lot • [David Jimmon] • novelette by Ward Moore (trans. of Lot 1953)
• 133 • I nove miliardi di nomi di Dio • short fiction by Arthur C. Clarke (trans. of The Nine Billion Names of God 1953)
• 141 • Calore • short fiction by Robert Sheckley (trans. of Warm 1953)
• 151 • Impostore • short fiction by Philip K. Dick (trans. of Impostor 1953)
• 167 • Un mondo davvero perduto • short fiction by Theodore Sturgeon (trans. of The World Well Lost 1953)
• 187 • Affari: giornata infame • short fiction by Fritz Leiber (trans. of A Bad Day for Sales 1953)
• 195 • Tempo comune • short story by James Blish (trans. of Common Time 1953)
• 217 • Il tempo è traditore • short fiction by Alfred Bester (trans. of Time Is the Traitor 1953)
• 241 • Il muro intorno al mondo • novelette by Theodore R. Cogswell (trans. of The Wall Around the World 1953)
• 267 • Un giudice modello • short fiction by William Morrison (trans. of The Model of a Judge 1953)
• 279 • Galleria di specchi • short fiction by Fredric Brown (trans. of Hall of Mirrors 1953)
• 287 • Una vita splendida • short story by Jerome Bixby (trans. of It's a Good Life 1953)