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• "It's Great to Be Back!" • [Future History] • (1947) • short story by Robert A. Heinlein
• Billennium • (1961) • short story by J. G. Ballard
• By the Waters of Babylon • (1937) • short story by
  Stephen Vincent Benét^?Stephen Vincent Benet
  (variant of The Place of the Gods)
• Dumb Waiter • (1952) • novelette by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• Forgetfulness • (1937) • novelette by John W. Campbell, Jr. [as by Don A. Stuart]
• Introduction (Cities of Wonder) • essay by Damon Knight
• Jesting Pilot • (1947) • short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
• Okie • [Cities in Flight] • (1950) • novelette by James Blish
• Single Combat • (1955) • short story by Robert Abernathy
• The Luckiest Man in Denv • (1952) • short story by C. M. Kornbluth
• The Machine Stops • (1909) • novelette by E. M. Forster
• The Underprivileged • (1963) • short story by Brian W. Aldiss