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• 9 • Foreword (The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 2) • essay by Gordon Van Gelder
• 11 • Introduction (The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 2) • essay by Michael Dirda
• 17 • The Third Level • (1950) • short story by Jack Finney
• 23 • The Cosmic Charge Account • (1956) • novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
• 45 • The Country of the Kind • (1956) • short story by Damon Knight
• 59 • The Anything Box • (1956) • short story by Zenna Henderson
• 73 • The Prize of Peril • (1958) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• 91 •
  "—All You Zombies—"^?"-All You Zombies-"
  • (1961) • short story by Robert A. Heinlein (variant of "All You Zombies ..." 1959)
• 103 • A Kind of Artistry • (1962) • novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
• 127 • Green Magic • (1963) • short story by Jack Vance
• 141 • Narrow Valley • (1966) • short story by R. A. Lafferty
• 155 • Sundance • (1969) • short story by Robert Silverberg
• 171 • The Attack of the Giant Baby • (1975) • short story by Kit Reed
• 181 • The Hundredth Dove • (1977) • short story by Jane Yolen
• 187 • Jeffty Is Five • (1977) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 207 • Salvador • (1984) • short story by Lucius Shepard
• 225 • The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything • (1984) • short story by George Alec Effinger
• 241 • Rat • (1986) • short story by James Patrick Kelly
• 253 • The Friendship Light • (1989) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 267 • The Bone Woman • [Newford] • (1992) • short story by Charles de Lint
• 277 • The Lincoln Train • (1995) • short story by Maureen F. McHugh
• 291 • Maneki Neko • (1998) • short story by Bruce Sterling
• 307 • Winemaster • (1999) • novelette by Robert Reed
• 331 • Suicide Coast • (1999) • short story by M. John Harrison
• 349 • Have Not Have • (2001) • novelette by Geoff Ryman
• 371 • The People of Sand and Slag • (2004) • novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi
• 391 • Echo • (2005) • short story by Elizabeth Hand
• 399 • The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates • (2008) • short story by Stephen King
• 407 • The Paper Menagerie • (2011) • short story by Ken Liu