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• ix • Introduction (Bangs and Whimpers: Stories About the End of the World) • (1999) • essay by James R. Frenkel [as by James Frenkel]
• 1 • The Nine Billion Names of God • (1953) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 9 • Killing the Morrow • (1996) • short story by Robert Reed
• 25 • We Can Get Them for You Wholesale • (1984) • short story by Neil Gaiman
• 37 • Fire Catcher • (1985) • short story by Richard Kadrey (variant of The Fire Catcher)
• 45 • Not with a Bang • (1973) • short story by Howard Fast
• 49 • Lost and Found • (1982) • short story by Connie Willis
• 65 • The Wind and the Rain • (1973) • short story by Robert Silverberg
• 77 • The Year of the Jackpot • (1952) • novelette by Robert A. Heinlein
• 115 • Expendable • (1953) • short story by Philip K. Dick
• 123 • Finis • (1992) • short story by Frank Lillie Pollock [as by Frank L. Pollack]
• 135 • A Guide to Virtual Death • (1992) • short story by J. G. Ballard
• 139 • Emissary from a Green and Yellow World • (1998) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• 149 • The Portable Phonograph • (1941) • short story by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
• 157 • Fermi and Frost • (1985) • short story by Frederik Pohl
• 175 • Ultimate Construction • (1967) • short story by Brian W. Aldiss [as by C. C. Shackleton]
• 177 • The Manhattan Phone Book (Abridged) • (1984) • short story by John Varley
• 183 • The Man Who Walked Home • (1972) • short story by James Tiptree, Jr.
• 201 • Interview with a Lemming • (1941) • short story by James Thurber
• 205 • The Last Question • [Multivac] • (1956) • short story by Isaac Asimov