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• 8 • Foreword (The Science Fiction Source Book) • (1984) • essay by Brian W. Aldiss
• 22 • The Science Fiction Sub-genres: Introduction • (1984) • essay by Brian Stableford
• 25 • The Science Fiction Sub-genres: Man and Machine • (1984) • essay by Brian Stableford
• 28 • The Science Fiction Sub-genres: Utopia and Dystopia • (1984) • essay by Brian Stableford
• 31 • The Science Fiction Sub-genres: Time Travel • (1984) • essay by Brian Stableford
• 34 • The Science Fiction Sub-genres: Aliens • (1984) • essay by Brian Stableford
• 37 • The Science Fiction Sub-genres: Space Travel • (1984) • essay by Brian Stableford
• 40 • The Science Fiction Sub-genres: Galactic Empires • (1984) • essay by Brian Stableford
• 42 • The Science Fiction Sub-genres: ESP • (1984) • essay by Brian Stableford
• 45 • The Science Fiction Sub-genres: Disasters • (1984) • essay by Brian Stableford
• 48 • The Science Fiction Sub-genres: Religion and Mythology • (1984) • essay by Brian Stableford
• 51 • The Science Fiction Sub-genres: Parallel Worlds and Alternate Histories • (1984) • essay by Brian Stableford
• 54 • The Science Fiction Sub-genres: Sex and Sexuality • (1984) • essay by Brian Stableford
• 56 • The Science Fiction Sub-genres: Alien Ecologies • (1984) • essay by Brian Stableford
• 58 • The Science Fiction Sub-genres: Magic • (1984) • essay by Brian Stableford
• 60 • The Science Fiction Sub-genres: The Media • (1984) • essay by Brian Stableford
• 62 • The Science Fiction Sub-genres: Inner Space • (1984) • essay by Brian Stableford
• 66 • The Science Fiction Writer at Work: Introduction • (1984) • essay by Frederik Pohl
• 70 • The Science Fiction Writer at Work: One Man's Work • (1984) • essay by Poul Anderson
• 72 • The Science Fiction Writer at Work: The Secret Mind • (1984) • essay by Ray Bradbury
• 74 • The Science Fiction Writer at Work: Is There a Story in it Somewhere? • (1984) • essay by Richard Cowper
• 76 • The Science Fiction Writer at Work: Wrestling with Words • (1984) • essay by Christopher Evans
• 77 • The Science Fiction Writer at Work: Mapping Imaginary Countries • (1984) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin [as by Ursula Le Guin]
• 79 • The Science Fiction Writer at Work: Equipment, Method and the Rest • (1984) • essay by Larry Niven
• 80 • The Science Fiction Writer at Work: Thirty Years of Writing • (1984) • essay by Robert Silverberg
• 82 • The Science Fiction Writer at Work: How I Became a Science Fiction Master in only 15 Minutes a Day • (1984) • essay by John Sladek (variant of How I Became a Science Fiction Master in Only 15 Minutes a Day)
• 83 • The Science Fiction Writer at Work: How I Write • (1984) • essay by Lisa Tuttle
• 84 • The Science Fiction Writer at Work: Where I Get My Ideas • (1984) • essay by Gene Wolfe
• 85 • The Science Fiction Writer at Work: The Process of Composing • (1984) • essay by Roger Zelazny
• 87 • Science Fiction Writers: A Consumers' Guide • (1984) • essay by David Wingrove
• 272 • First Magazine Publication of Leading Authors • (1984) • essay by uncredited
• 274 • Science Fiction Publishing: The Science Fiction Magazines • (1984) • essay by David Wingrove
• 282 • Science Fiction Publishing: Magazine Checklist • (1984) • essay by uncredited
• 287 • Criticism Checklist • (1984) • essay by David Wingrove
• 289 • Science Fiction Publishing: SF Publishing: The Economics • (1984) • essay by Malcolm Edwards
• 291 • SF Criticism • (1984) • essay by David Wingrove
• 309 • Afterword (The Science Fiction Source Book) • (1984) • essay by Kingsley Amis
• 312 • Index (The Science Fiction Source Book) • (1984) • essay by uncredited