Contents (view Concise Listing)

• ix • Introduction (Science Fiction: 101) • (2001) • essay by Greg Bear
• xi • Foreword (Science Fiction: 101) • (2001) • essay by Robert Silverberg (variant of Foreword (Robert Silverberg's Worlds of Wonder) 1987)
• 3 • Introduction: The Making of a Science-Fiction Writer • (1987) • essay by Robert Silverberg
• 52 • Four in One • (1953) • novelette by Damon Knight
• 91 • Four in One: Complications, with Elegance • (1987) • essay by Robert Silverberg
• 100 • Fondly Fahrenheit • (1954) • novelette by Alfred Bester
• 125 • Fondly Fahrenheit: Who Am I, Which Are You? • (1987) • essay by Robert Silverberg
• 134 • No Woman Born • (1944) • novella by C. L. Moore
• 193 • No Woman Born: Flowing from Ring to Ring • (1987) • essay by Robert Silverberg
• 210 • Home Is the Hunter • (1953) • short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner]
• 223 • Home Is the Hunter: The Triumph of Honest Roger Bellamy • (1987) • essay by Robert Silverberg
• 233 • The Monsters • (1953) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• 245 • The Monsters: Don't Forget to Kill Your Wife • (1987) • essay by Robert Silverberg
• 254 • Common Time • (1953) • short story by James Blish
• 281 • Common Time: With All of Love • (1987) • essay by Robert Silverberg
• 294 • Scanners Live in Vain • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1950) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
• 337 • Scanners Live in Vain: Under the Wire with the Habermans • (1987) • essay by Robert Silverberg
• 347 • Hothouse • [Hothouse] • (1961) • novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
• 390 • Hothouse: The Fuzzypuzzle Odyssey • (1987) • essay by Robert Silverberg
• 397 • The New Prime • (1951) • novelette by Jack Vance
• 426 • The New Prime: Six Plots for the Price of One • (1987) • essay by Robert Silverberg
• 433 • Colony • (1953) • novelette by Philip K. Dick
• 457 • Colony: I Trusted the Rug Completely • (1987) • essay by Robert Silverberg
• 465 • The Little Black Bag • (1950) • novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
• 500 • The Little Black Bag: Press Button for Triple Bypass • (1987) • essay by Robert Silverberg
• 509 • Light of Other Days • [Slow Glass] • (1966) • short story by Bob Shaw
• 519 • Light of Other Days: Beyond the Radius of Capture • (1987) • essay by Robert Silverberg
• 526 • Day Million • (1966) • short story by Frederik Pohl
• 532 • Day Million: A Boy, a Girl, a Love Story • (1987) • essay by Robert Silverberg
• 540 • For Further Reading (Science Fiction: 101) • (2001) • essay by Robert Silverberg (variant of For Further Reading (Robert Silverberg's Worlds of Wonder) 1987)