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• v • Preface (Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts (Compact Edition)) • (2008) • essay by Heather Masri
• 1 • A Brief Introduction to Science Fiction and Its History • (2008) • essay by Heather Masri
• 11 • A Selective Guide to Science Fiction Research • (2008) • essay by Heather Masri
• 17 • Alien Encounters • (2008) • essay by Heather Masri
• 18 • A Martian Odyssey • [Tweel • 1] • (1934) • novelette by Stanley G. Weinbaum
• 38 • Arena • (1944) • novelette by Fredric Brown
• 59 • Mars Is Heaven! • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1948) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 74 • When I Was Miss Dow • (1966) • short story by Sonya Dorman
• 83 • Vaster Than Empires and More Slow • [Hainish] • (1971) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 106 • Wang's Carpets • (1995) • novelette by Greg Egan
• 132 • The Shadow • (1959) • essay by C. G. Jung [as by Carl Gustav Jung]
• 135 • The Fact of Blackness • (2008) • essay by Frantz Fanon
• 140 • Artificial Life • (2008) • essay by Heather Masri
• 141 • Liar! • [Susan Calvin] • (1941) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 155 • Second Variety • [Claws • 1] • (1953) • novelette by Philip K. Dick
• 191 • Baby, You Were Great! • (1967) • short story by Kate Wilhelm
• 201 • The Girl Who Was Plugged In • (1973) • novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• 230 • Burning Chrome • [Neuromancer / Sprawl Trilogy] • (1982) • novelette by William Gibson
• 246 • The Algorithms for Love • (2004) • short story by Ken Liu
• 257 • The Precession of Simulacra • (2008) • essay by Jean Baudrillard
• 271 • A Cyborg Manifesto • (1985) • essay by Donna J. Haraway
• 291 • Time • (2008) • essay by Heather Masri
• 293 • Vintage Season • (1962) • novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by C. L. Moore]
• 326 •
  "All You Zombies—"^?"All You Zombies-"
  • (1959) • short story by Robert A. Heinlein (variant of "All You Zombies ...")
• 337 • When We Went to See the End of the World • (1972) • short story by Robert Silverberg
• 344 • The Lucky Strike • (1984) • novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
• 372 • At the Rialto • (1989) • novelette by Connie Willis
• 390 • Story of Your Life • (1998) • novella by Ted Chiang
• 427 • From Being and Nothingness • (2008) • essay by Jean-Paul Sartre
• 436 • To Build a Time Machine • (1994) • essay by Michio Kaku
• 453 • Utopia and Dystopias • (2008) • essay by Heather Masri
• 455 • The Country of the Kind • (1956) • short story by Damon Knight
• 466 • "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman • (1965) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 475 • When It Changed • [Whileaway] • (1972) • short story by Joanna Russ
• 482 • The Persistence of Vision • (1978) • novella by John Varley
• 518 • Kirinyaga • [Kirinyaga • 2] • (1988) • novelette by Mike Resnick
• 533 • Something to Hitch Meat To • (2001) • novelette by Nalo Hopkinson
• 546 • From The Organization Man • (2008) • essay by William H. Whyte, Jr.
• 557 • Progress Versus Utopia; or, Can We Imagine the Future? • (1982) • essay by Fredric Jameson
• 573 • Disasters and Apocalypses • (2008) • essay by Heather Masri
• 575 • The Nine Billion Names of God • (1953) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 580 • The Terminal Beach • (1964) • novelette by J. G. Ballard
• 597 • How the World Was Saved • [Cyberiada (The Cyberiad)] • (1974) • short story by
  Stanisław Lem^?Stanislaw Lem
  (trans. of
  Jak ocalał świat^?Jak ocalal swiat
  1964) [as by Stanislaw Lem]
• 601 • Take Your Choice • (1987) • short story by
  小松左京^?Komatsu Sakyou
  Komatsu Sakyō
  こまつさきょう
  Komatsu Sakyo
  (trans. of
  おえらびください^?Oerabi Kudasai
  O-erabi Kudasai
  1967) [as by Sakyo Komatsu]
• 612 • Cassandra • (1978) • short story by C. J. Cherryh
• 618 • Recording Angel • (1996) • short story by Ian McDonald
• 629 • From The Myth of the Eternal Return • (2008) • essay by Mircea Eliade
• 647 • The Imagination of Disaster • (1965) • essay by Susan Sontag
• 660 • Evolutions • (2008) • essay by Heather Masri
• 661 • Twilight • [Twilight • 1] • (1934) • novelette by John W. Campbell, Jr.
• 678 • Flowers for Algernon • (1959) • novelette by Daniel Keyes
• 700 • For a Breath I Tarry • (1966) • novelette by Roger Zelazny
• 728 • Driftglass • (1967) • short story by Samuel R. Delany
• 743 • Blood Music • (1983) • novelette by Greg Bear
• 762 • Bears Discover Fire • (1990) • short story by Terry Bisson
• 770 • Nonmoral Nature • (1983) • essay by Stephen Jay Gould
• 779 • The Myth of the Ant Queen • (2008) • essay by Steven Johnson (1968-)