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• 3 • The Game of Rat and Dragon • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1955) • short story by Cordwainer Smith
• 21 • Mouse • (1949) • short story by Fredric Brown
• 33 • Ship of Shadows • (1969) • novelette by Fritz Leiber
• 83 •
  Schrödinger's Cat^?Schroedinger's Cat
  • (1974) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 93 • Tales of a Starship's Cat • poem by Judith R. Conly
• 97 • Who's There? • (1958) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 103 • Bullhead • novelette by David Drake (variant of The Bullhead 1991)
• 143 • Ordeal in Space • [Future History] • (1948) • short story by Robert A. Heinlein
• 161 • Space-Time for Springers • [Gummitch the Cat] • (1958) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 175 • The Tail • short fiction by M. J. Engh
• 179 • Well Worth the Money • short story by Jody Lynn Nye
• 203 • Chanur's Homecoming (Chapter 12) • short fiction by C. J. Cherryh
• 231 • Duty Calls • [The Fleet] • (1988) • novelette by Anne McCaffrey
• 263 • Black Destroyer • [Space Beagle] • (1939) • novelette by A. E. van Vogt
• 299 • The Pride • short fiction by P. J. Beese and Todd Cameron Hamilton [as by P. J. Beese and Todd Hamilton]
• 327 • The Ballad of Lost C'mell • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1962) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
• 351 • The Man Who Would Be Kzin • [Man-Kzin Wars] • (1991) • novella by Greg Bear and S. M. Stirling