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• 7 • Foreword: The Bad News and the Good • [Asimov's Essays: Other's Work] • (1976) • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 11 • Idiot Stick • (1958) • short story by Damon Knight
• 24 • Nine Lives • (1969) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 47 • The Commuter • (1953) • short story by Philip K. Dick
• 59 • The Oath • (1960) • short story by James Blish
• 77 • Takeover Bid • (1965) • novelette by John Baxter
• 94 • Comes Now the Power • (1966) • short story by Roger Zelazny
• 100 • Litterbug • (1969) • novelette by Tony Morphett
• 117 • Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1961) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
• 138 • A Song Before Sunset • (1976) • short story by David Grigg
• 149 • Sundance • (1969) • short story by Robert Silverberg
• 163 • The Oh in Jose • (1966) • short story by Brian W. Aldiss (variant of The O in José) [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 172 • The Man Who Came Early • (1956) • novelette by Poul Anderson
• 194 • Call Him Lord • (1966) • novelette by Gordon R. Dickson
• 213 • The Garden of Time • (1962) • short story by J. G. Ballard