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• Introduction (The Nickel Man and Other French Scientific Romances) • essay by Brian Stableford
• Mademoiselle de la Choupillière • novelette by Jacques Boucher de Perthes (trans. of Mademoiselle de la Choupillière 1832)
• The Uraniad or, Aesop's Judges in Urania's Court • short story by Pierre Bremond (trans. of L'Uraniade, ou Ésope juge à la cour d'Uranie 1844)
• The Automaton • short story by Ralph Schropp
• The Death of Paris • short story by Louis Gallet (trans. of La Mort de Paris 1892)
• The Automaton • short story by
  Léon Daudet^?Leon Daudet
• The Nickel Man • short story by G. Bethuys (trans. of L'Homme en nickel 1897) [as by Georges Espitallier]
• The Night of Pius XII • short story by Pierre de Nolhac (trans. of La Nuit de Pie XII 1931)
• A Lovely Summer's Day • short story by Pierre de Nolhac (trans. of Une belle journée d'été 1932)
• Babel at Ferney • short story by Pierre de Nolhac (trans. of Babel a Ferney 1932)
• A Season in Auvergne • short story by Pierre de Nolhac (trans. of Saison en Auvergne 1932)
• The Journal of Dr. J. H. Smithson • short story by Pierre de Nolhac (trans. of Journal de Smithson 1932)