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• xv • Preface (The Good Old Stuff) • essay by Gardner Dozois
• 1 • The Rull • [Rull] • (1948) • novelette by A. E. van Vogt
• 27 • The Second Night of Summer • [Agents of Vega] • (1950) • novelette by James H. Schmitz
• 52 • The Galton Whistle • [Viagens Interplanetarias] • (1951) • novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
• 75 • The New Prime • (1951) • novelette by Jack Vance
• 99 • That Share of Glory • (1952) • novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
• 127 • The Last Days of Shandakor • [Mars [2]] • (1952) • novelette by Leigh Brackett
• 155 • Exploration Team • [Colonial Survey] • (1956) • novelette by Murray Leinster
• 196 • The Sky People • [Maurai] • (1959) • novelette by Poul Anderson
• 235 • The Man in the Mailbag • [Dilbia] • (1959) • novelette by Gordon R. Dickson
• 261 • Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1961) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
• 282 • A Kind of Artistry • (1962) • novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
• 304 • Gunpowder God • [Kalvan] • (1964) • novella by H. Beam Piper
• 346 • Semley's Necklace • [Hainish] • (1964) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin (variant of The Dowry of Angyar)
• 364 • Moon Duel • (1965) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 375 • The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth • (1965) • novelette by Roger Zelazny
• 406 • Mother in the Sky with Diamonds • (1971) • novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.