Contents
* xv ⢠Left Out ⢠essay by Isaac Asimov
* 1 ⢠Doctor ⢠(1960) ⢠shortstory by Henry Slesar
* 3 ⢠All Cats Are Gray ⢠(1953) ⢠shortstory by Andre Norton
* 9 ⢠The Assassin ⢠(1957) ⢠shortstory by Robert Silverberg
* 15 ⢠Better Than We Know ⢠(1955) ⢠shortstory by William F. Temple
* 27 ⢠The Big Bounce ⢠(1958) ⢠shortstory by Walter Tevis [as by Walter S. Tevis ]
* 37 ⢠Bounty ⢠(1972) ⢠shortstory by T. L. Sherred
* 41 ⢠The Briefing ⢠(1969) ⢠shortstory by Randall Garrett
* 45 ⢠Capsule ⢠(1982) ⢠shortstory by Rosalind M. Greenberg [as by Rosalind Straley ]
* 47 ⢠The Chasm ⢠(1956) ⢠shortstory by Bryce Walton
* 53 ⢠The Chicago Plan to Save a Species ⢠(1976) ⢠shortstory by Thomas A. Easton [as by Thomas Easton ]
* 61 ⢠Cinderella, Inc. ⢠(1952) ⢠shortstory by Christopher Anvil
* 65 ⢠Common Denominator ⢠(1951) ⢠shortstory by John D. MacDonald
* 73 ⢠Crazy Annaoj ⢠(1968) ⢠shortstory by Fritz Leiber
* 79 ⢠The Damned Thing ⢠(1893) ⢠shortstory by Ambrose Bierce
* 87 ⢠The Dancing Partner ⢠(1893) ⢠shortstory by Jerome K. Jerome
* 95 ⢠The Dead Valley ⢠(1895) ⢠shortstory by Ralph Adams Cram
* 103 ⢠Deadly Game ⢠(1962) ⢠shortstory by Edward Wellen
* 107 ⢠âDear Pen Palâ ⢠(1949) ⢠shortstory by A. E. van Vogt
* 113 ⢠Deathwatch ⢠(1965) ⢠shortstory by Norman Spinrad
* 119 ⢠Defense Mechanism ⢠(1949) ⢠shortstory by Katherine MacLean
* 127 ⢠Divine Madness ⢠(1966) ⢠shortstory by Roger Zelazny
* 135 ⢠The Dread Tomato Addiction ⢠(1958) ⢠shortstory by Mark Clifton
* 137 ⢠Dueling Clowns ⢠[Circus World] ⢠(1979) ⢠shortstory by Barry B. Longyear [as by Barry Longyear ]
* 143 ⢠End as a World ⢠(1955) ⢠shortstory by F. L. Wallace
* 149 ⢠Evensong ⢠(1967) ⢠shortstory by Lester del Rey
* 153 ⢠Exile ⢠(1943) ⢠shortstory by Edmond Hamilton
* 159 ⢠The Exterminator ⢠(1931) ⢠shortstory by A. Hyatt Verrill
* 165 ⢠The Eyes Have It ⢠(1953) ⢠shortstory by Philip K. Dick
* 169 ⢠Father's in the Basement ⢠(1972) ⢠shortstory by Philip José Farmer
* 177 ⢠The Fear of It ⢠(1893) ⢠shortstory by Robert Barr
* 183 ⢠Feeding Time ⢠(1955) ⢠shortstory by James E. Gunn
* 189 ⢠The Fiend ⢠(1964) ⢠shortstory by Frederik Pohl
* 195 ⢠For Value Received ⢠(1972) ⢠shortstory by Andrew J. Offutt
* 203 ⢠The Forbidden Word ⢠(1972) ⢠shortstory by Edward D. Hoch
* 213 ⢠The Good Neighbors ⢠(1960) ⢠shortstory by Edgar Pangborn
* 219 ⢠The Good Work ⢠(1959) ⢠shortstory by Theodore L. Thomas
* 231 ⢠The Great Secret ⢠(1959) ⢠shortstory by George H. Smith
* 235 ⢠The Harvest ⢠(1957) ⢠shortstory by Tom Godwin
* 239 ⢠The Homesick Chicken ⢠(1977) ⢠shortstory by Edward D. Hoch
* 245 ⢠The House of Ecstasy ⢠(1938) ⢠shortstory by Ralph Milne Farley
* 253 ⢠How I Take Their Measure ⢠(1969) ⢠shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg
* 259 ⢠Hunting Machine ⢠(1957) ⢠shortstory by Carol Emshwiller
* 265 ⢠The Immortal Bard ⢠(1954) ⢠shortstory by Isaac Asimov
* 269 ⢠In Case of Fire ⢠(1960) ⢠shortstory by Randall Garrett
* 277 ⢠An Incident on Route 12 ⢠(1962) ⢠shortstory by James H. Schmitz
* 283 ⢠Interview ⢠(1963) ⢠shortstory by Frank A. Javor
* 287 ⢠Into the Shop ⢠(1964) ⢠shortstory by Ron Goulart
* 297 ⢠Into Your Tent I'll Creep ⢠(1957) ⢠shortstory by Eric Frank Russell
* 305 ⢠Itself! ⢠(1963) ⢠shortstory by A. E. van Vogt
* 309 ⢠Job Offer ⢠(1959) ⢠shortstory by Henry Slesar
* 311 ⢠Just Desserts ⢠(1958) ⢠shortstory by Irving Fang
* 315 ⢠The Last Brave Invader ⢠(1957) ⢠shortstory by Charles L. Fontenay
* 323 ⢠The Last Men ⢠(1934) ⢠shortstory by Frank Belknap Long
* 331 ⢠Last Warning ⢠(1954) ⢠shortstory by Mack Reynolds
* 339 ⢠Light of Other Days ⢠[Slow Glass] ⢠(1966) ⢠shortstory by Bob Shaw
* 347 ⢠Long Way Home ⢠shortstory by Charles G. Waugh
* 351 ⢠The Looking Glass of the Law ⢠(1978) ⢠shortstory by Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.
* 359 ⢠Lost Love ⢠(1957) ⢠shortstory by Algis Budrys
* 367 ⢠Lucifer ⢠(1964) ⢠shortstory by Roger Zelazny
* 373 ⢠Man of Destiny ⢠(1951) ⢠shortstory by John Christopher
* 381 ⢠Man of Distinction ⢠(1956) ⢠shortstory by Michael Shaara
* 387 ⢠The Man Who Always Knew ⢠(1956) ⢠shortstory by Algis Budrys
* 393 ⢠The Man with English ⢠(1953) ⢠shortstory by H. L. Gold
* 401 ⢠The Mansion of Forgetfulness ⢠(1907) ⢠shortstory by Don Mark Lemon
* 405 ⢠My Object All Sublime ⢠(1961) ⢠shortstory by Poul Anderson
* 415 ⢠No Harm Done ⢠(1961) ⢠shortstory by Jack Sharkey
* 421 ⢠Nobody Lives on Burton Street ⢠(1970) ⢠shortstory by Gregory Benford [as by Greg Benford ]
* 429 ⢠Now I'm Watching Roger ⢠(1972) ⢠shortstory by Alexei Panshin
* 433 ⢠On Account of Darkness ⢠(1977) ⢠shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini
* 439 ⢠One Man's Ambition ⢠(1958) ⢠shortstory by A. Bertram Chandler [as by Bertram Chandler ]
* 443 ⢠Optical Illusion ⢠(1953) ⢠shortstory by Mack Reynolds
* 447 ⢠The Pair ⢠(1958) ⢠shortstory by Joe L. Hensley
* 453 ⢠The Patient ⢠(1943) ⢠shortstory by E. Mayne Hull [as by E. M. Hull ]
* 459 ⢠The People's Choice ⢠(1974) ⢠shortstory by William John Watkins [as by William Jon Watkins ]
* 471 ⢠Playing the Game ⢠(1982) ⢠shortstory by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
* 477 ⢠Ponce ⢠(1978) ⢠shortstory by Glen Cook
* 487 ⢠Poor Little Warrior! ⢠(1958) ⢠shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
* 493 ⢠The Problem Was Lubrication ⢠(1961) ⢠shortstory by David R. Bunch
* 497 ⢠Publish and Perish ⢠(1978) ⢠shortstory by Paul J. Nahin
* 507 ⢠Pythias ⢠(1955) ⢠shortstory by Frederik Pohl
* 513 ⢠Refuge ⢠shortstory by Donald Wismer
* 517 ⢠The Rescuer ⢠(1962) ⢠shortstory by Arthur Porges
* 523 ⢠Ripples ⢠(1967) ⢠shortstory by Ray Russell
* 527 ⢠The Saga of DMM ⢠[Emmett Duckworth] ⢠(1967) ⢠shortstory by Larry Eisenberg
* 531 ⢠Segregationist ⢠(1967) ⢠shortstory by Isaac Asimov
* 537 ⢠The Spy ⢠(1962) ⢠shortstory by Theodore L. Thomas
* 541 ⢠Straw ⢠(1975) ⢠shortstory by Gene Wolfe
* 549 ⢠Superiority Complex ⢠(1969) ⢠shortstory by Thomas N. Scortia
* 557 ⢠Teaching Prime ⢠(1972) ⢠shortstory by Leo P. Kelley
* 565 ⢠That Only a Mother ⢠(1948) ⢠shortstory by Judith Merril
* 575 ⢠They Live Forever ⢠(1959) ⢠shortstory by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
* 581 ⢠They're Playing Our Song ⢠(1964) ⢠shortstory by Harry Harrison
* 583 ⢠A Thousand Deaths ⢠(1899) ⢠shortstory by Jack London
* 593 ⢠Threshold ⢠(1982) ⢠shortstory by Sharon Webb
* 601 ⢠To Be Continued ⢠(1956) ⢠shortstory by Robert Silverberg
* 613 ⢠Too Many Eggs ⢠(1962) ⢠shortstory by Kris Neville
* 617 ⢠Try and Change the Past ⢠[Change War] ⢠(1958) ⢠shortstory by Fritz Leiber
* 625 ⢠Turning Point ⢠(1965) ⢠shortstory by Arthur Porges
* 631 ⢠The Twerlik ⢠(1964) ⢠shortstory by Jack Sharkey
* 639 ⢠What's Your Excuse? ⢠(1969) ⢠shortstory by Alexei Panshin
* 645 ⢠While-You-Wait ⢠(1979) ⢠shortstory by Edward Wellen
* xv ⢠Left Out ⢠essay by Isaac Asimov
* 1 ⢠Doctor ⢠(1960) ⢠shortstory by Henry Slesar
* 3 ⢠All Cats Are Gray ⢠(1953) ⢠shortstory by Andre Norton
* 9 ⢠The Assassin ⢠(1957) ⢠shortstory by Robert Silverberg
* 15 ⢠Better Than We Know ⢠(1955) ⢠shortstory by William F. Temple
* 27 ⢠The Big Bounce ⢠(1958) ⢠shortstory by Walter Tevis [as by Walter S. Tevis ]
* 37 ⢠Bounty ⢠(1972) ⢠shortstory by T. L. Sherred
* 41 ⢠The Briefing ⢠(1969) ⢠shortstory by Randall Garrett
* 45 ⢠Capsule ⢠(1982) ⢠shortstory by Rosalind M. Greenberg [as by Rosalind Straley ]
* 47 ⢠The Chasm ⢠(1956) ⢠shortstory by Bryce Walton
* 53 ⢠The Chicago Plan to Save a Species ⢠(1976) ⢠shortstory by Thomas A. Easton [as by Thomas Easton ]
* 61 ⢠Cinderella, Inc. ⢠(1952) ⢠shortstory by Christopher Anvil
* 65 ⢠Common Denominator ⢠(1951) ⢠shortstory by John D. MacDonald
* 73 ⢠Crazy Annaoj ⢠(1968) ⢠shortstory by Fritz Leiber
* 79 ⢠The Damned Thing ⢠(1893) ⢠shortstory by Ambrose Bierce
* 87 ⢠The Dancing Partner ⢠(1893) ⢠shortstory by Jerome K. Jerome
* 95 ⢠The Dead Valley ⢠(1895) ⢠shortstory by Ralph Adams Cram
* 103 ⢠Deadly Game ⢠(1962) ⢠shortstory by Edward Wellen
* 107 ⢠âDear Pen Palâ ⢠(1949) ⢠shortstory by A. E. van Vogt
* 113 ⢠Deathwatch ⢠(1965) ⢠shortstory by Norman Spinrad
* 119 ⢠Defense Mechanism ⢠(1949) ⢠shortstory by Katherine MacLean
* 127 ⢠Divine Madness ⢠(1966) ⢠shortstory by Roger Zelazny
* 135 ⢠The Dread Tomato Addiction ⢠(1958) ⢠shortstory by Mark Clifton
* 137 ⢠Dueling Clowns ⢠[Circus World] ⢠(1979) ⢠shortstory by Barry B. Longyear [as by Barry Longyear ]
* 143 ⢠End as a World ⢠(1955) ⢠shortstory by F. L. Wallace
* 149 ⢠Evensong ⢠(1967) ⢠shortstory by Lester del Rey
* 153 ⢠Exile ⢠(1943) ⢠shortstory by Edmond Hamilton
* 159 ⢠The Exterminator ⢠(1931) ⢠shortstory by A. Hyatt Verrill
* 165 ⢠The Eyes Have It ⢠(1953) ⢠shortstory by Philip K. Dick
* 169 ⢠Father's in the Basement ⢠(1972) ⢠shortstory by Philip José Farmer
* 177 ⢠The Fear of It ⢠(1893) ⢠shortstory by Robert Barr
* 183 ⢠Feeding Time ⢠(1955) ⢠shortstory by James E. Gunn
* 189 ⢠The Fiend ⢠(1964) ⢠shortstory by Frederik Pohl
* 195 ⢠For Value Received ⢠(1972) ⢠shortstory by Andrew J. Offutt
* 203 ⢠The Forbidden Word ⢠(1972) ⢠shortstory by Edward D. Hoch
* 213 ⢠The Good Neighbors ⢠(1960) ⢠shortstory by Edgar Pangborn
* 219 ⢠The Good Work ⢠(1959) ⢠shortstory by Theodore L. Thomas
* 231 ⢠The Great Secret ⢠(1959) ⢠shortstory by George H. Smith
* 235 ⢠The Harvest ⢠(1957) ⢠shortstory by Tom Godwin
* 239 ⢠The Homesick Chicken ⢠(1977) ⢠shortstory by Edward D. Hoch
* 245 ⢠The House of Ecstasy ⢠(1938) ⢠shortstory by Ralph Milne Farley
* 253 ⢠How I Take Their Measure ⢠(1969) ⢠shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg
* 259 ⢠Hunting Machine ⢠(1957) ⢠shortstory by Carol Emshwiller
* 265 ⢠The Immortal Bard ⢠(1954) ⢠shortstory by Isaac Asimov
* 269 ⢠In Case of Fire ⢠(1960) ⢠shortstory by Randall Garrett
* 277 ⢠An Incident on Route 12 ⢠(1962) ⢠shortstory by James H. Schmitz
* 283 ⢠Interview ⢠(1963) ⢠shortstory by Frank A. Javor
* 287 ⢠Into the Shop ⢠(1964) ⢠shortstory by Ron Goulart
* 297 ⢠Into Your Tent I'll Creep ⢠(1957) ⢠shortstory by Eric Frank Russell
* 305 ⢠Itself! ⢠(1963) ⢠shortstory by A. E. van Vogt
* 309 ⢠Job Offer ⢠(1959) ⢠shortstory by Henry Slesar
* 311 ⢠Just Desserts ⢠(1958) ⢠shortstory by Irving Fang
* 315 ⢠The Last Brave Invader ⢠(1957) ⢠shortstory by Charles L. Fontenay
* 323 ⢠The Last Men ⢠(1934) ⢠shortstory by Frank Belknap Long
* 331 ⢠Last Warning ⢠(1954) ⢠shortstory by Mack Reynolds
* 339 ⢠Light of Other Days ⢠[Slow Glass] ⢠(1966) ⢠shortstory by Bob Shaw
* 347 ⢠Long Way Home ⢠shortstory by Charles G. Waugh
* 351 ⢠The Looking Glass of the Law ⢠(1978) ⢠shortstory by Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.
* 359 ⢠Lost Love ⢠(1957) ⢠shortstory by Algis Budrys
* 367 ⢠Lucifer ⢠(1964) ⢠shortstory by Roger Zelazny
* 373 ⢠Man of Destiny ⢠(1951) ⢠shortstory by John Christopher
* 381 ⢠Man of Distinction ⢠(1956) ⢠shortstory by Michael Shaara
* 387 ⢠The Man Who Always Knew ⢠(1956) ⢠shortstory by Algis Budrys
* 393 ⢠The Man with English ⢠(1953) ⢠shortstory by H. L. Gold
* 401 ⢠The Mansion of Forgetfulness ⢠(1907) ⢠shortstory by Don Mark Lemon
* 405 ⢠My Object All Sublime ⢠(1961) ⢠shortstory by Poul Anderson
* 415 ⢠No Harm Done ⢠(1961) ⢠shortstory by Jack Sharkey
* 421 ⢠Nobody Lives on Burton Street ⢠(1970) ⢠shortstory by Gregory Benford [as by Greg Benford ]
* 429 ⢠Now I'm Watching Roger ⢠(1972) ⢠shortstory by Alexei Panshin
* 433 ⢠On Account of Darkness ⢠(1977) ⢠shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini
* 439 ⢠One Man's Ambition ⢠(1958) ⢠shortstory by A. Bertram Chandler [as by Bertram Chandler ]
* 443 ⢠Optical Illusion ⢠(1953) ⢠shortstory by Mack Reynolds
* 447 ⢠The Pair ⢠(1958) ⢠shortstory by Joe L. Hensley
* 453 ⢠The Patient ⢠(1943) ⢠shortstory by E. Mayne Hull [as by E. M. Hull ]
* 459 ⢠The People's Choice ⢠(1974) ⢠shortstory by William John Watkins [as by William Jon Watkins ]
* 471 ⢠Playing the Game ⢠(1982) ⢠shortstory by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
* 477 ⢠Ponce ⢠(1978) ⢠shortstory by Glen Cook
* 487 ⢠Poor Little Warrior! ⢠(1958) ⢠shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
* 493 ⢠The Problem Was Lubrication ⢠(1961) ⢠shortstory by David R. Bunch
* 497 ⢠Publish and Perish ⢠(1978) ⢠shortstory by Paul J. Nahin
* 507 ⢠Pythias ⢠(1955) ⢠shortstory by Frederik Pohl
* 513 ⢠Refuge ⢠shortstory by Donald Wismer
* 517 ⢠The Rescuer ⢠(1962) ⢠shortstory by Arthur Porges
* 523 ⢠Ripples ⢠(1967) ⢠shortstory by Ray Russell
* 527 ⢠The Saga of DMM ⢠[Emmett Duckworth] ⢠(1967) ⢠shortstory by Larry Eisenberg
* 531 ⢠Segregationist ⢠(1967) ⢠shortstory by Isaac Asimov
* 537 ⢠The Spy ⢠(1962) ⢠shortstory by Theodore L. Thomas
* 541 ⢠Straw ⢠(1975) ⢠shortstory by Gene Wolfe
* 549 ⢠Superiority Complex ⢠(1969) ⢠shortstory by Thomas N. Scortia
* 557 ⢠Teaching Prime ⢠(1972) ⢠shortstory by Leo P. Kelley
* 565 ⢠That Only a Mother ⢠(1948) ⢠shortstory by Judith Merril
* 575 ⢠They Live Forever ⢠(1959) ⢠shortstory by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
* 581 ⢠They're Playing Our Song ⢠(1964) ⢠shortstory by Harry Harrison
* 583 ⢠A Thousand Deaths ⢠(1899) ⢠shortstory by Jack London
* 593 ⢠Threshold ⢠(1982) ⢠shortstory by Sharon Webb
* 601 ⢠To Be Continued ⢠(1956) ⢠shortstory by Robert Silverberg
* 613 ⢠Too Many Eggs ⢠(1962) ⢠shortstory by Kris Neville
* 617 ⢠Try and Change the Past ⢠[Change War] ⢠(1958) ⢠shortstory by Fritz Leiber
* 625 ⢠Turning Point ⢠(1965) ⢠shortstory by Arthur Porges
* 631 ⢠The Twerlik ⢠(1964) ⢠shortstory by Jack Sharkey
* 639 ⢠What's Your Excuse? ⢠(1969) ⢠shortstory by Alexei Panshin
* 645 ⢠While-You-Wait ⢠(1979) ⢠shortstory by Edward Wellen
