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• ix • Introduction (The Flying Sorcerers: More Comic Tales of Fantasy) • (1997) • essay by Peter Haining
• 3 • Turntables of the Night • (1989) • short story by Terry Pratchett
• 14 • A Slice of Life • [Mr. Mulliner] • (1926) • short story by P. G. Wodehouse
• 30 • The Better Mousetrap • [Gavagan's Bar] • (1950) • short story by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt
• 42 • Sam Small's Better Half • [Sam Small] • (1940) • short story by Eric Knight
• 60 • Danse Macabre • (1963) • short story by Mervyn Peake
• 72 • The Shoddy Lands • (1956) • short story by C. S. Lewis
• 81 • Harrison Bergeron • (1961) • short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• 89 • Possible to Rue • (1963) • short story by Piers Anthony
• 97 • The Right Side • (1934) • short story by John Collier
• 104 • Nasty • (1959) • short story by Fredric Brown
• 107 • The Gripes of Wraith • [Squaredeal Sam McGhee] • (1949) • short story by Nelson S. Bond [as by Nelson Bond]
• 120 • The Roaches • (1965) • short story by Thomas M. Disch
• 133 • The Lady of the House of Love • (1975) • short story by Angela Carter
• 153 • The Stone Thing: A Tale of Strange Parts • (1974) • short story by Michael Moorcock (variant of The Stone Thing)
• 158 • The Shrink and the Mink • (1983) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 174 • Ah Sweet Mystery of Life • (1974) • short story by Roald Dahl (variant of Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life)
• 185 • The Man in Asbestos: An Allegory of the Future • (1911) • short story by Stephen Leacock
• 198 • Female of the Species • (1953) • novelette by John Wyndham (variant of The Perfect Creature 1937)
• 225 • A Good Shellacking • [Cyberiada (The Cyberiad)] • (1974) • short story by
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  (trans. of Wielkie ianie 1964) [as by Stanislaw Lem]
• 232 • From Gustible's Planet • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1962) • short story by Cordwainer Smith
• 240 • Specialist • (1953) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• 258 • The Adventure of the Martian Moons • [Sam Space] • (1997) • short story by William F. Nolan
• 277 • The Golden Years of the Stainless Steel Rat • [The Stainless Steel Rat] • (1993) • short story by Harry Harrison
• 295 • No Morning After • (1954) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke