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• 11 • Introduction (The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus) • (1973) • essay by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 15 • Sole Solution • (1956) • short story by Eric Frank Russell
• 18 • Lot • [David Jimmon] • (1953) • novelette by Ward Moore
• 46 • The Short-Short Story of Mankind • (1957) • short story by John Steinbeck (variant of We Are Holding Our Own 1955)
• 52 • Skirmish • (1950) • short story by Clifford D. Simak
• 72 • Poor Little Warrior! • (1958) • short story by Brian W. Aldiss
• 79 • Grandpa • [The Hub] • (1955) • novelette by James H. Schmitz
• 102 • The Half Pair • (1957) • short story by A. Bertram Chandler [as by Bertram Chandler]
• 107 • Command Performance • (1961) • short story by Walter M. Miller, Jr. [as by Walter M. Miller]
• 126 • Nightfall • (1941) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
• 156 • The Snowball Effect • (1952) • short story by Katherine MacLean
• 170 • The End of Summer • (1954) • novelette by Algis Budrys
• 197 • Track 12 • (1958) • short story by J. G. Ballard
• 203 • The Monkey Wrench • (1951) • short story by Gordon R. Dickson
• 215 • The First Men • (1960) • novelette by Howard Fast
• 245 • Counterfeit • (1952) • novelette by Alan E. Nourse
• 268 • The Greater Thing • (1954) • novelette by Tom Godwin
• 292 • Build Up Logically • (1963) • short story by Howard Schoenfeld (variant of Built Up Logically 1949)
• 303 • The Liberation of Earth • (1953) • short story by William Tenn
• 321 • An Alien Agony • (1962) • short story by Harry Harrison (variant of The Streets of Ashkelon)
• 337 • The Tunnel Under the World • (1955) • novelette by Frederik Pohl
• 370 • The Store of the Worlds • (1959) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• 377 • Jokester • [Multivac] • (1956) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 391 • Pyramid • (1954) • novelette by Robert Abernathy
• 419 • The Forgotten Enemy • (1948) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 426 • The Wall Around the World • (1953) • novelette by Theodore R. Cogswell [as by Theodore Cogswell]
• 453 • Protected Species • (1951) • short story by H. B. Fyfe
• 466 • Before Eden • (1961) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 478 • The Rescuer • (1962) • short story by Arthur Porges
• 485 • I Made You • (1954) • short story by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• 497 • The Country of the Kind • (1956) • short story by Damon Knight
• 511 • MS. Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie • (1957) • short story by C. M. Kornbluth
• 523 • The Cage • (1957) • short story by A. Bertram Chandler [as by Bertram Chandler]
• 536 • Eastward Ho! • (1958) • short story by William Tenn
• 553 • The Windows of Heaven • (1956) • short story by John Brunner
• 566 • Common Time • (1953) • short story by James Blish
• 588 • Fulfilment • (1964) • novelette by A. E. van Vogt (variant of Fulfillment 1951)