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• vii • Introduction (Beyond Time and Space) • (1950) • essay by August Derleth
• 3 • Atlantis (excerpt) • (1950) • short fiction by Plato
• 23 • A True History (excerpt) • (unknown) • short story by Lucian of Samosata
• 35 • Utopia (excerpt) • (1516) • short fiction by Sir Thomas More
• 38 • The Phalanstery of Theleme (excerpt) • [Gargantua et Pantagruel] • (1950) • short fiction by
  François Rabelais^?Francois Rabelais
• 43 • The City of the Sun (excerpt) • short story by Tommaso Campanella [as by Giovanni Domenico Campanella]
• 46 • The New Atlantis (excerpt) • short fiction by Francis Bacon
• 60 • Laputa (excerpt from Gulliver's Travels) • short fiction by Jonathan Swift
• 65 • Somnium: or The Astronomy of the Moon (excerpt) • short fiction by Johannes Kepler
• 86 • The Man in the Moone (excerpt) • (1638) • short fiction by Francis Godwin
• 126 • The Tree Men of Potu (excerpt) • (1741) • short fiction by Ludvig Holberg [as by Lewis Holberg]
• 148 • The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 166 • Doctor Ox's Experiment • (1874) • novella by Jules Verne (trans. of Une fantaisie du Docteur Ox 1872)
• 205 • Pausodyne • (1881) • short story by Grant Allen
• 222 • A Tale of Negative Gravity • (1884) • novelette by Frank R. Stockton
• 243 • The Blindman's World • (1886) • short story by Edward Bellamy
• 261 • The Battle of the Monsters • (1899) • short story by Morgan Robertson
• 273 • The New Accelerator • (1901) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 287 • The Noise in the Night • (1908) • short story by William Hope Hodgson
• 305 • Space • (1911) • novelette by John Buchan
• 322 • When the Green Star Waned • [Venhez] • (1925) • novelette by Nictzin Dyalhis
• 347 • The Revolt of the Pedestrians • (1928) • novelette by David H. Keller, M.D. [as by David H. Keller]
• 377 • The Flying Men (excerpt from Last and First Men) • [Last and First Men] • (1930) • short story by Olaf Stapledon
• 387 • A Voyage to Sfanomoë • [Poseidonis] • (1931) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• 395 • Colossus • [Colossus (Wandrei) • 1] • (1934) • novelette by Donald Wandrei
• 437 • The Lotus Eaters • [Ham Hammond] • (1935) • novelette by Stanley G. Weinbaum
• 465 • Fessenden's Worlds • (1937) • short story by Edmond Hamilton
• 478 • The Seesaw • [Weapon Shops of Isher] • (1941) • short story by A. E. van Vogt
• 492 • Wingless Victory • (1944) • novelette by Gerald Heard [as by Henry Fitz-Gerald Heard]
• 530 • When the Bough Breaks • (1944) • novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
• 556 • Wanted - An Enemy • (1945) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 570 • Humpty Dumpty Had a Great Fall • (1948) • novelette by Frank Belknap Long
• 595 • Minority Report • (1949) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• 616 • The Long Watch • [Future History] • (1949) • short story by Robert A. Heinlein
• 630 • The Exiles • (1949) • short story by Ray Bradbury