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• 1 • Preface (The Legend Book of Science Fiction) • essay by Gardner Dozois
• 7 • The Country of the Kind • (1956) • short story by Damon Knight
• 22 • Aristotle and the Gun • (1958) • novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
• 59 • The Other Celia • (1957) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 78 • Casey Agonistes • (1958) • short story by Richard McKenna
• 90 • Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1961) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
• 116 • The Moon Moth • (1961) • novelette by Jack Vance
• 157 • The Golden Horn • [Tales of a Darkening World] • (1962) • novelette by Edgar Pangborn
• 196 • The Lady Margaret • [Pavane] • (1966) • novelette by Keith Roberts (variant of The Lady Anne)
• 238 • This Moment of the Storm • (1966) • novelette by Roger Zelazny
• 273 • Narrow Valley • (1966) • short story by R. A. Lafferty
• 287 • Driftglass • (1967) • short story by Samuel R. Delany
• 309 • The Worm That Flies • (1968) • short story by Brian W. Aldiss
• 331 • The Fifth Head of Cerberus • [The Fifth Head of Cerberus] • (1972) • novella by Gene Wolfe
• 397 • Nobody's Home • (1972) • short story by Joanna Russ
• 416 • Her Smoke Rose Up Forever • (1974) • short story by James Tiptree, Jr.
• 437 • The Barrow • [Orsinia] • (1976) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 447 • Particle Theory • (1977) • short story by Edward Bryant
• 472 • The Ugly Chickens • (1980) • novelette by Howard Waldrop
• 499 • Going Under • (1981) • novelette by Jack Dann
• 521 • Salvador • (1984) • short story by Lucius Shepard
• 543 • Pretty Boy Crossover • (1986) • short story by Pat Cadigan
• 557 • The Pure Product • (1986) • novelette by John Kessel
• 580 • The Winter Market • (1985) • novelette by William Gibson
• 603 • Chance • (1986) • novelette by Connie Willis
• 637 • The Edge of the World • (1989) • short story by Michael Swanwick
• 654 • Dori Bangs • (1989) • short story by Bruce Sterling
• 671 • Afterword (The Legend Book of Science Fiction) • essay by Gardner Dozois