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• 8 • Foreword: Science Fiction Short Stories • essay by Andy Sawyer
• 9 • Publisher's Note (Science Fiction Short Stories) • essay by uncredited
• 12 • Flatland • [Flatland • 1] • (2007) • novel by Edwin A. Abbott (variant of Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions 1884)
• 61 • The Body Surfer • (2011) • short fiction by Edward Ahern
• 66 • Behind the First Years • (2013) • short story by Stewart C. Baker
• 73 • Genetic Changelings • short story by Keyan Bowes
• 81 • Overlap • (2012) • short story by Beth Cato
• 88 • Phantoms of Reality • (1930) • novelette by Ray Cummings
• 116 • The Disintegration Machine • [Professor Challenger • 5] • (1929) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
• 124 • The Machine Stops • (1909) • novelette by E. M. Forster
• 144 • Smith and the Pharaohs • (1912) • novella by H. Rider Haggard
• 171 • Rest in Peace • (2014) • short fiction by Sarah Hans
• 177 • The Hives and the Hive-Nots • short fiction by Rob Hartzell
• 180 • The Vast Weight of Their Bleeding Hearts • (2013) • short fiction by Alexis A. Hunter
• 186 • Makeisha in Time • (2014) • short story by Rachael K. Jones
• 192 • The Ego Machine • (1952) • novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner]
• 223 • The Julius Directive • short fiction by Jacob Lambert [as by Jacob M. Lambert]
• 233 • The Shadow and the Flash • (1903) • short story by Jack London
• 242 • Metsys • (2013) • short story by Adrian Ludens
• 248 • The Tachypomp • (1874) • short story by Edward Page Mitchell
• 257 • Fishing Expedition • short story by Mike Morgan
• 265 • Armageddon—2419 A. D. • [Buck Rogers • 1] • (1928) • novella by Philip Francis Nowlan
• 308 • Red • (2012) • short story by Kate O'Connor
• 315 • Time and Time Again • (1947) • short story by H. Beam Piper
• 326 • Nude Descending an Elevator Shaft • (2013) • short fiction by Conor Powers-Smith
• 336 • The Invisible Ray • [Craig Kennedy] • (1911) • short fiction by Arthur B. Reeve
• 350 • Sweet Dreams, Glycerine • short fiction by Zach Shephard
• 357 • Jenny's Sick • (2010) • short story by David Tallerman
• 364 • Shortcuts • (2014) • short fiction by Brian Trent
• 374 • A Life as Warm as Death • short fiction by Patrick Tumblety
• 384 • Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven • (1907) • novelette by Mark Twain (variant of Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven)
• 407 • Butterfly Dreams • (2010) • short story by Donald Jacob Uitvlugt
• 411 • The Day of an American Journalist in 2889 • short story by Jules Verne and Michel Verne (trans. of La journée d'un journaliste américain en 2890 1890) [as by Jules Verne]
• 421 • Planetoid 127 • (1929) • novella by Edgar Wallace
• 450 • The Care and Feeding of Mammalian Bipeds, v. 2.1 • (2012) • short fiction by M. Darusha Wehm
• 457 • The Worlds of If • [Professor Manderpootz] • (1935) • short story by Stanley G. Weinbaum
• 468 • Clockwork Evangeline • (2014) • short fiction by Nemma Wollenfang
• 472 • Biographies & Sources (Science Fiction Short Stories) • essay by uncredited