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• 11 • Preface (Science Fiction by Gaslight) • essay by Sam Moskowitz
• 15 • Introduction: A History of Science Fiction in the Popular Magazines, 1891-1911 • essay by Sam Moskowitz
• 51 •  A Corner in Lightning • (1898) • interior artwork by Paul Hardy
• 53 • The Thames Valley Catastrophe • (1897) • short story by Grant Allen
• 69 • The Doom of London • (1892) • short story by Robert Barr
• 79 • A Corner in Lightning • (1898) • short story by George Griffith
• 90 • The Tilting Island • (1909) • short story by Grena J. Bennett and Thomas J. Vivian
• 102 • Finis • (1940) • short story by Frank Lillie Pollock [as by Frank Lillie Pollack]
• 113 •  An Express of the Future • interior artwork by A. J. Johnson (variant of An Express of the Future [2] 1895) [as by unknown]
• 115 • An Express of the Future • (1895) • short story by Michel Verne (trans. of Un express de l'avenir 1888) [as by Jules Verne]
• 120 • The Ray of Displacement • (1903) • short story by Harriet Prescott Spofford
• 134 • Congealing the Ice Trust • (1907) • short story by H. G. Bishop [as by Capt. H. G. Bishop, U.S.A.]
• 141 • Lord Beden's Motor • (1901) • short story by Harris Burland [as by J. B. Harris-Burland]
• 153 •  The Monster of Lake LaMetrie • (1899) • interior artwork by Stanley L. Wood
• 155 • The Death-Trap • (1908) • short story by George Daulton
• 167 • The Air Serpent • (1911) • short story by Will A. Page
• 177 • The Monster of Lake LaMetrie • (1899) • short story by Wardon Allan Curtis
• 189 • The Voice in the Night • (1907) • short story by William Hope Hodgson
• 201 •  The Land Ironclads • interior artwork by Claude A. Shepperson (variant of The Land Ironclads [3] 1903) [as by Claude A. Shepperson, R. I.]
• 203 • The Land Ironclads • (1903) • novelette by H. G. Wells
• 223 • The Dam • (1911) • short story by Hugh S. Johnson
• 233 • Submarined • (1905) • short story by Walter Wood
• 239 •  The Purple Terror • (1899) • interior artwork by Paul Hardy (variant of The Purple Terror [2])
• 241 • The Purple Terror • (1899) • short story by Fred M. White
• 255 • Professor Jonkin's Cannibal Plant • [Professor Jonkin] • (1905) • short story by Howard R. Garis
• 265 •  The Hybrid Hyperborean Ant • (1910) • interior artwork by Albert Levering (variant of The Hybrid Hyperborean Ant [5])
• 267 • An Experiment in Gyro-Hats • (1910) • short story by Ellis Parker Butler
• 280 • The Hybrid Hyperborean Ant • (1910) • short story by Roy L. McCardell
• 293 •  Where the Air Quivered • (1898) • interior artwork by H. Piffard [as by Piffard]
• 295 • Where the Air Quivered • (1898) • novelette by Robert Eustace and L. T. Meade
• 312 • In Re State Vs. Forbes • (1906) • short story by Warren Earle
• 325 •  Old Doctor Rutherford • (1891) • interior artwork by Louis Gunnis
• 327 • Old Doctor Rutherford • (1891) • short story by D. F. Hannigan
• 339 • Itself • (1907) • short story by Edgar Mayhew Bacon
• 351 •  The Platinum Web • (1906) • interior artwork by G. W. Peters
• 353 • Citizen 504 • (1896) • short story by Charles H. Palmer (variant of The Alien Thread 1892)
• 361 • The Mansion of Forgetfulness • (1907) • short story by Don Mark Lemon