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•  "I want to know how the Earth looks when you are standing on the Moon" • (1917) • interior artwork by Angus Macdonall
•  "A most unusual country" • (1917) • interior artwork by Angus Macdonall
• ix • Introduction: The Critical Reception of Science Fiction • (1971) • essay by Thomas D. Clareson
• 1 • The Other Side of Realism • (1971) • essay by Thomas D. Clareson
• 29 • Fantasy and Realism • (1971) • essay by
  Юлий Кагарлицкий^?Yuliy Kagarlitskiy
  (trans. of
  Реализм и фантастика^?Realizm i fantastika
  ) [as by Julius Kagarlitski]
• 53 • What Do You Mean: Science? Fiction? • (1966) • essay by Judith Merril
• 96 • The Artistic Problem: Science Fiction as Romance • (1963) • essay by Lionel Stevenson
• 105 • Fantasy as Technique • (1967) • essay by Rudolf B. Schmerl
• 116 • The Wounded Land: J. G. Ballard • (1971) • essay by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 130 • About Five Thousand One Hundred and Seventy-Five Words • (1969) • essay by Samuel R. Delany
• 147 • The Two Gardens in C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength • (1971) • essay by Patrick J. Callahan
• 157 • Notes on Science Fiction: The Crisis of Its Growth • (1967) • essay by Michel Butor
• 166 • On Science Fiction Criticism • (1968) • essay by James Blish
• 171 • Frankenstein, Mary Shelley's Black Theodicy • (1971) • essay by Milton A. Mays
• 181 • Stand on Zanzibar: The Novel as Film • (1971) • essay by Norman Spinrad
• 186 • The Last and First Starship from Earth • (1971) • essay by Jane Hipolito
• 193 • Science Fiction and Modern Mythology • (1971) • essay by Willis E. McNelly
• 199 • Foreword to "The Subliminal Man" • (1970) • essay by H. Bruce Franklin
• 204 • The Publication of The Time Machine, 1894-1895 • (1960) • essay by Bernard Bergonzi
• 216 • The Shape of Wars to Come • (1965) • essay by I. F. Clarke
• 229 • The Undisciplined Imagination: Edgar Rice Burroughs and Lowellian Mars • (1971) • essay by R. D. Mullen [as by Richard D. Mullen]
• 248 • A Short Tragical History of the Science Fiction Film • (1959) • essay by Richard Hodgens
• 258 • 1001 Interpretations of 2001 • (1969) • essay by Robert Plank
• 263 • 2001: Odyssey to Byzantium • (1968) • essay by Morris Beja
• 267 • The Academic Overkill of 2001 • (1971) • essay by Alex Eisenstein
• 272 • Science Fiction as a Cultural Phenomenon: A Re-evaluation • (1963) • essay by Mark R. Hillegas
• 282 • A Poetic Precursor to Bellamy's Looking Backward • (1964) • essay by Ben Fuson
• 289 • Kurd Lasswitz: A German Pioneer of Science Fiction • (1969) • essay by Franz Rottensteiner
• 307 • Robots in Science Fiction • (1970) • essay by
  Stanisław Lem^?Stanislaw Lem
  [as by Stanislaw Lem]
• 326 • Science Fiction in Dimension • [Science Fiction in Dimension] • (1970) • essay by Alexei Panshin
• 334 • "A City of Which the Stars Are Suburbs" • (1971) • essay by Susan Wood [as by Susan Glicksohn]
• 348 • Award-Winning Science Fiction Novels • (1971) • essay by uncredited