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• Introduction (The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume I) • (1970) • essay by Robert Silverberg
• A Martian Odyssey • [Tweel • 1] • (1934) • novelette by Stanley G. Weinbaum
• Twilight • [Twilight • 1] • (1966) • novelette by John W. Campbell, Jr. [as by John W. Campbell]
• Helen O'Loy • (1938) • short story by Lester del Rey
• The Roads Must Roll • [Future History] • (1940) • novelette by Robert A. Heinlein
• Microcosmic God • (1941) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• Nightfall • (1941) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
• The Weapon Shop • [Weapon Shops of Isher] • (1942) • novelette by A. E. van Vogt
• Mimsy Were the Borogoves • (1943) • novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
• Huddling Place • [City] • (1944) • short story by Clifford D. Simak
• Arena • (1944) • novelette by Fredric Brown
• First Contact • (1945) • novelette by Murray Leinster
• That Only a Mother • (1948) • short story by Judith Merril
• Scanners Live in Vain • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1950) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
• Mars Is Heaven! • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1948) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• The Little Black Bag • (1950) • novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
• Born of Man and Woman • (1950) • short story by Richard Matheson
• Coming Attraction • (1950) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• The Quest for Saint Aquin • (1951) • novelette by Anthony Boucher
• Surface Tension • [Pantropy] • (1952) • novelette by James Blish
• The Nine Billion Names of God • (1953) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• It's a Good Life • (1953) • short story by Jerome Bixby
• The Cold Equations • [Cold Equations (Godwin)] • (1954) • novelette by Tom Godwin
• Fondly Fahrenheit • (1954) • novelette by Alfred Bester
• The Country of the Kind • (1956) • short story by Damon Knight
• Flowers for Algernon • (1959) • novelette by Daniel Keyes
• A Rose for Ecclesiastes • (1963) • novelette by Roger Zelazny