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• 5 • Introduction (Shadow of Tomorrow) • (1953) • essay by Frederik Pohl
• 11 • The Year of the Jackpot • (1952) • novelette by Robert A. Heinlein
• 51 • A Bad Day for Sales • (1953) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 58 • The C-Chute • (1951) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
• 98 • The Perfect Creature • (1937) • novelette by John Wyndham
• 124 • The Marching Morons • (1951) • novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
• 159 • Transfer Point • (1950) • novelette by Anthony Boucher
• 183 • Watchbird • (1953) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• 207 • To a Ripe Old Age • (1952) • short story by Wilson Tucker
• 226 • Orphans of the Void • (1952) • novelette by Michael Shaara
• 248 • The Old Order • (1951) • short story by Lester del Rey (variant of The New Gods Lead)
• 263 • Genesis • [Paratime Police] • (1951) • novelette by H. Beam Piper
• 287 • Halo • (1952) • novelette by Hal Clement
• 306 • Common Time • (1953) • short story by James Blish
• 331 • Love • (1952) • short story by Richard Wilson
• 339 • The Misogynist • (1952) • short story by James E. Gunn
• 350 • The Luckiest Man in Denv • (1952) • short story by C. M. Kornbluth [as by Simon Eisner]
• 364 • Not a Creature Was Stirring • (1951) • short story by Dean Evans