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• vi • Foreword (Big Book of Science Fiction) • essay by George Gesner
• x • Acknowledgment (Big Book of Science Fiction) • (1950) • essay by Groff Conklin
• 11 • Mr. Murphy of New York • (1930) • short story by Thomas McMorrow
• 23 • The Diminishing Draft • (1918) • short story by Waldemar Kaempffert
• 40 • Peacebringer • (1950) • novelette by Ward Moore
• 60 • A Matter of Form • (1938) • novella by H. L. Gold [as by Horace L. Gold]
• 107 • The Planetoid of Doom • (1932) • short story by Morrison Colladay
• 127 • One Leg Too Many • [Dr. Wentworth] • (1929) • short story by W. Alexander
• 133 • The Man with the Strange Head • (1927) • short story by Miles J. Breuer, M.D.
• 140 • Defense Mechanism • (1949) • short story by Katherine MacLean
• 146 • Margin for Error • (1947) • novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
• 177 • Isolationist • (1950) • short story by Mack Reynolds
• 183 • Nobody Saw the Ship • (1950) • short story by Murray Leinster
• 196 • Mewhu's Jet • (1946) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• 226 • The Outer Limit • (1949) • short story by Graham Doar
• 235 • Rat Race • (1948) • short story by Dorothy de Courcy and John de Courcy
• 248 • Dear Devil • (1950) • novelette by Eric Frank Russell
• 277 • Emergency Landing • (1940) • short story by Ralph Williams
• 280 • The Ship That Turned Aside • (1930) • novelette by G. Peyton Wertenbaker [as by Green Peyton]
• 304 • Manna • (1949) • novelette by Peter Phillips
• 324 • The Long Dawn • (1950) • novelette by Noel Loomis
• 346 • E for Effort • (1947) • novelette by T. L. Sherred
• 387 • The Roger Bacon Formula • (1929) • short story by Fletcher Pratt
• 399 • The Wings of Night • (1942) • short story by Lester del Rey
• 413 • Desertion • [City] • (1944) • short story by Clifford D. Simak
• 423 • Contact, Incorporated • (1949) • novelette by Robertson Osborne (variant of Action on Azura)
• 451 • Arena • (1944) • novelette by Fredric Brown
• 473 • Culture • (1944) • short story by Jerry Shelton
• 488 • In the Year 2889 • (1889) • short story by Jules Verne and Michel Verne (trans. of La journée d'un journaliste américain en 2890 1890) [as by Jules Verne]
• 500 • Forever and the Earth • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 513 • The Miniature • (1949) • short story by John D. MacDonald [as by Peter Reed]
• 521 • Sanity • (1944) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 533 • The Only Thing We Learn • (1949) • short story by C. M. Kornbluth
• 541 • Not with a Bang • (1950) • short story by Damon Knight