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• xi • Foreword (The World Treasury of Science Fiction) • (1989) • essay by Clifton Fadiman
• xiii • Introduction (The World Treasury of Science Fiction) • (1988) • essay by David G. Hartwell
• 3 • Harrison Bergeron • (1961) • shortstory by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• 10 • Forgetfulness • (1937) • novelette by John W. Campbell, Jr.
• 34 • Special Flight • (1939) • novelette by John Berryman
• 70 • Chronopolis • (1960) • novelette by J. G. Ballard
• 92 • Triceratops • (1982) • novelette by Tensei Kono (trans. of トリケラトプス 1974) [as byKono Tensei]
• 104 • The Man Who Lost the Sea • (1959) • shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon
• 115 • On the Inside Track • (1986) • novelette by Karl Michael Armer
• 135 • The Golem • (1955) • shortstory by Avram Davidson
• 141 • The New Prehistory • (1983) • shortstory by René Rebetez-Cortes (variant of La Nueva Prehistoria 1967)
• 146 • A Meeting With Medusa • (1971) • novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
• 184 • The Valley of Echoes • (1973) • shortstory by Gérard Klein (trans. of La vallée des échos 1959)
• 193 • The Fifth Head of Cerberus • (1972) • novella by Gene Wolfe
• 245 • The Chaste Planet • (1975) • shortstory by John Updike
• 250 • The Blind Pilot • (1960) • shortstory by Nathalie Henneberg (trans. of Au Pilote Aveugle 1959) [as byNathalie-Charles Henneberg]
• 266 • The Men Who Murdered Mohammed • (1958) • shortstory by Alfred Bester
• 278 • Pairpuppets • (1976) • shortstory by Manuel van Loggem (trans. of Paarpoppen 1972)
• 286 • Two Dooms • (1958) • novella by C. M. Kornbluth
• 328 • Tale of the Computer That Fought a Dragon • [Bajki robotów (Robots' Fables)] • (1977) • shortstory by Stanisław Lem (trans. of Bajka o maszynie cyfrowej, co ze smokiem walczyła 1964) [as byStanislaw Lem]
• 334 • The Green Hills of Earth • [Future History] • (1947) • shortstory by Robert A. Heinlein
• 345 • Ghost V • [AAA Ace] • (1954) • shortstory by Robert Sheckley
• 359 • The Phantom of Kansas • [Eight Worlds] • (1976) • novelette by John Varley
• 392 • Captain Nemo's Last Adventure • (1973) • novelette by Josef Nesvadba (trans. of Posledni dobrodruzství kapitána Nemo 1964)
• 415 • Inconstant Moon • (1971) • novelette by Larry Niven
• 439 • The Gold at the Starbow's End • (1972) • novella by Frederik Pohl
• 485 • A Sign in Space • (1968) • shortstory by Italo Calvino (trans. of Un segno nello spazio 1964)
• 493 • The Spiral • (1968) • shortstory by Italo Calvino (trans. of La spirale 1965)
• 503 • The Dead Past • (1956) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
• 545 • The Lens • (1984) • shortstory by Annemarie van Ewijck [as byAnnemarie van Ewyck]
• 554 • The Hurkle Is a Happy Beast • (1949) • shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon
• 562 • Zero Hour • (1947) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• 572 • Nine Lives • (1969) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 595 • The Muse • (1968) • shortstory by Anthony Burgess
• 611 • The Public Hating • (1955) • shortstory by Steve Allen
• 618 • Poor Superman • (1951) • novelette by Fritz Leiber (variant of Appointment in Tomorrow)
• 642 • Angouleme • (1971) • shortstory by Thomas M. Disch
• 657 • Stranger Station • (1956) • novelette by Damon Knight
• 679 • The Dead Fish • (1955) • shortstory by Boris Vian (trans. of Les poissons morts 1947)
• 690 • I Was the First to Find You • (1977) • shortstory by Kir Bulychev (trans. of Я вас первым обнаружил! (Ya vas pervym obnaruzhil!) 1970) [as byKirill Bulychev]
• 701 • The Lineman • (1957) • novella by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• 755 • Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius • (1961) • shortstory by Jorge Luís Borges (trans. of Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius 1940)
• 769 • Codemus • (1976) • shortstory by Tor Ã…ge Bringsvaerd (trans. of Kodémus, eller Datamaskinen some tenkte at hva faen 1968)
• 782 • A Kind of Artistry • (1962) • novelette by Brian W. Aldiss [as byBrian Aldiss]
• 803 • Second Variety • [Claws • 1] • (1953) • novelette by Philip K. Dick
• 844 • Weihnachtsabend • (1972) • novelette by Keith Roberts (variant of Weihnachtabend)
• 876 • I Do Not Love Thee, Doctor Fell • (1955) • shortstory by Robert Bloch
• 885 • Aye, and Gomorrah ... • (1967) • shortstory by Samuel R. Delany
• 895 • How Erg the Self-Inducting Slew a Paleface • [Bajki robotów (Robots' Fables)] • (1977) • shortstory by Stanisław Lem (trans. of Jak Erg Samowzbudnik Bladawca pokonał 1964) [as byStanislaw Lem]
• 906 • Nobody's Home • (1972) • shortstory by Joanna Russ
• 920 • Party Line • (1973) • novelette by Gérard Klein (trans. of Ligne de partage 1969)
• 948 • The Proud Robot • [Gallegher (Henry Kuttner)] • (1943) • novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as byLewis Padgett]
• 980 • Vintage Season • (1946) • novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
• 1019 • The Way to Amalteia • [Yurkovsky & Zhilin] • (1984) • novella by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky (trans. of Путь на Амальтею 1960)
• 1079 • Acknowledgements (The World Treasury of Science Fiction) • (1988) • essay by David G. Hartwell