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• xiii • Foreword (Modern Science Fiction) • essay by Norman Spinrad
• 1 • Introduction-Modern Science Fiction • essay by Norman Spinrad
• 7 • "The Golden Age" • essay by Norman Spinrad
• 16 • Twilight • [Twilight • 1] • (1934) • novelette by John W. Campbell, Jr.
• 42 • Enchanted Village • (1950) • short story by A. E. van Vogt
• 58 • Helen O'Loy • (1938) • short story by Lester del Rey
• 70 • Nightfall • (1941) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
• 113 • The Postwar Awakening • essay by Norman Spinrad
• 117 • The Star • (1955) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 124 • Affair with a Green Monkey • (1957) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 136 • Stranger Station • (1956) • novelette by Damon Knight
• 163 • The Cold Equations • [Cold Equations (Godwin)] • (1954) • novelette by Tom Godwin
• 194 • The Marching Morons • (1951) • novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
• 228 • 5,271,009 • (1954) • novelette by Alfred Bester
• 269 • The Full Flowering • essay by Norman Spinrad
• 275 • The Voices of Time • (1960) • novelette by J. G. Ballard
• 312 • The Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagittarius • (1965) • short story by Michael Moorcock [as by James Colvin]
• 329 • No Direction Home • (1971) • short story by Norman Spinrad
• 348 • Descending • (1964) • short story by Thomas M. Disch
• 361 • For a Breath I Tarry • (1966) • novelette by Roger Zelazny
• 404 • Don't Wash the Carats • (1968) • short story by
  Philip José Farmer^?Philip Jose Farmer
• 409 • Faith of Our Fathers • (1967) • novelette by Philip K. Dick
• 444 • Aye, and Gomorrah ... • (1967) • short story by Samuel R. Delany
• 455 • At the Mouse Circus • (1971) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 464 • In Entropy's Jaws • (1971) • novelette by Robert Silverberg
• 506 • Nine Lives • (1969) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 539 • Additional Significant Works of Speculative Fiction • essay by uncredited