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• ix • Foreword (Alchemy and Academe) • (1970) • essay by Anne McCaffrey
• xv • The Dance of the Solids • (1969) • poem by John Updike
• 1 • A Mess of Porridge • (1970) • short story by Sonya Dorman
• 16 • The Institute • (1970) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
• 21 • Condillac's Statue, or Wrens in His Head • short story by R. A. Lafferty
• 32 • The Sorcerers • (1970) • poem by L. Sprague de Camp
• 34 • The Weed of Time • (1970) • short story by Norman Spinrad
• 43 • Night and the Loves of Joe Dicostanzo • short story by Samuel R. Delany
• 64 • Come Up and See Me • (1970) • short story by Daphne Castell
• 74 • Shut the Last Door • (1970) • short story by Joe L. Hensley
• 82 • Big Sam • (1970) • short story by Avram Davidson
• 88 • More Light • [The King in Yellow] • novelette by James Blish
• 121 • The Man Who Could Not See Devils • (1970) • short story by Joanna Russ
• 135 • The Key to Out • (1970) • short story by Betsy Curtis
• 142 • Ringing the Changes • short story by Robert Silverberg
• 154 • In a Quart of Water • (1970) • short story by David Telfair
• 170 • Morning-Glory • (1970) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 178 • Ascension: A Workday Arabesque • (1970) • poem by Virginia Kidd
• 180 • The Devil You Don't • (1970) • novelette by Keith Laumer
• 203 • The Triumphant Head • (1970) • short story by Josephine Saxton
• 208 • Mainchance • (1970) • novelette by Peter Tate