Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• ii • To the Teacher • essay by uncredited
• iv • The Universe of Science Fiction • essay by uncredited
• 1 • The Homesick Chicken • (1977) • short story by Edward D. Hoch
• 8 • They're Made Out of Meat • (1991) • short story by Terry Bisson
• 13 • Moby James • (1991) • short story by Patricia A. McKillip
• 23 • The Anatomy Lesson • (1981) • short story by Scott Russell Sanders [as by Scott Sanders]
• 30 • The Greatest Asset • (1972) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 40 • Contagion • (1950) • novelette by Katherine MacLean
• 72 • All Summer in a Day • [All Summer in a Day] • (1954) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 80 • The High Test • (1983) • short story by Frederik Pohl
• 95 • Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers • [Harry's All-Night Hamburgers] • (1987) • short story by Lawrence Watt-Evans
• 111 • The Metal Man • (1928) • short story by Jack Williamson
• 125 • The Sentinel • [A Space Odyssey] • (1951) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 137 • The Mad Moon • (1997) • novelette by Stanley G. Weinbaum [as by Stanley Weinbaum]
• 161 • Desertion • [City] • (1944) • short story by Clifford D. Simak
• 175 • Inspiration • (1994) • short story by Ben Bova
• 189 • Wet Behind the Ears • (1982) • short story by Jack C. Haldeman, II
• 198 • Clean Up Your Room! • (1996) • short story by Laura Anne Gilman
• 216 • There Will Come Soft Rains • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 225 • Ear • (1991) • short story by Jane Yolen
• 234 • Direction of the Road • (1973) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 242 • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde • [Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde] • (1896) • novel by Robert Louis Stevenson (variant of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1886)