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• 9 • Introduction: The Best and the Brightest • essay by Ben Bova
• 11 • Persephone and Hades • (1973) • short story by Scott W. Schumack
• 33 • Common Denominator • (1972) • novelette by David Lewis
• 93 • The Four-Hour Fugue • (1974) • short story by Alfred Bester
• 114 • How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion • (1973) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 134 • A Song for Lya • [Thousand Worlds] • (1974) • novella by George R. R. Martin
• 205 • Unlimited Warfare • (1974) • short story by Hayford Peirce
• 218 • Tricentennial • (1976) • short story by Joe Haldeman
• 240 • The Present State of Igneos Research • (1975) • short story by Gordon R. Dickson
• 247 • Child of All Ages • [Melissa] • (1975) • short story by P. J. Plauger
• 269 • The Hole Man • (1974) • short story by Larry Niven
• 285 • Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand • [Snake] • (1973) • novelette by Vonda N. McIntyre
• 310 • A Thing of Beauty • (1973) • short story by Norman Spinrad
• 328 • When I Was in Your Mind • (1972) • short story by Joe Allred
• 346 • Unified Field Theory • (1975) • poem by Tim Joseph
• 348 • Home Is the Hangman • [Nemo] • (1975) • novella by Roger Zelazny