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• 11 • Introduction (In Dreams Awake) • essay by Leslie A. Fiedler
• 25 • The Beginnings • essay by Leslie A. Fiedler
• 27 • The Crystal Egg • (1897) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 44 • Unprofessional • (1930) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
• 63 • The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion • (1839) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 69 • The Tartarus of Maids • (1855) • short story by Herman Melville
• 83 • Three Thousand Years Among the Microbes (excerpt) • (1966) • short fiction by Mark Twain
• 90 • The Colour Out of Space • [Cthulhu Mythos (Lovecraft originals)] • (1927) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• 119 • The Golden Age • essay by Leslie A. Fiedler
• 121 • The Cold Equations • [Cold Equations (Godwin)] • (1954) • novelette by Tom Godwin
• 147 • Helen O'Loy • (1938) • short story by Lester del Rey
• 159 • It's a Good Life • (1953) • short story by Jerome Bixby
• 178 • Resurrection • (1949) • short story by A. E. van Vogt (variant of The Monster 1948)
• 196 • The Green Hills of Earth • [Future History] • (1947) • short story by Robert A. Heinlein
• 208 • Liar! • [Susan Calvin] • (1941) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 226 • The Nine Billion Names of God • (1953) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 233 • August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1951) • short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of There Will Come Soft Rains 1950)
• 240 • Mother • (1953) • novelette by
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• 268 • The Muse • (1968) • short story by Anthony Burgess
• 287 • New Directions • essay by Leslie A. Fiedler
• 289 • Nine Lives • (1969) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 316 • "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman • (1965) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 328 • Time Considered As a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones • (1968) • novelette by Samuel R. Delany
• 366 • The Second Inquisition • [Alyx] • (1970) • novelette by Joanna Russ
• 398 • Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy • (1966) • short story by J. G. Ballard