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• Introductions (Masterpieces of Science Fiction) • essay by Charles Platt
• 10 • Sunjammer • (1964) • novelette by Arthur C. Clarke (variant of The Wind from the Sun)
• 10 •  Sunjammer • interior artwork by Philip Smith
• 16 •  Sunjammer • interior artwork by Charles Smith (artist)
• 22 • A Sound of Thunder • (1952) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 22 •  A Sound of Thunder • interior artwork by Jim Hamill
• 32 • I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream • (1967) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 32 •  I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream • interior artwork by Alexander Heart
• 42 • Report on the Barnhouse Effect • (1950) • short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (variant of The Report on the Barnhouse Effect)
• 42 •  Report on the Barnhouse Effect • interior artwork by Thomas Blackshear
• 52 • Misfit • [Future History] • (1939) • novelette by Robert A. Heinlein
• 52 •  Misfit • interior artwork by Charles Smith (artist)
• 66 • Seed Stock • (1970) • short story by Frank Herbert
• 66 •  Seed Stock • interior artwork by Michael Hague
• 76 • Juggernaut • (1944) • short story by A. E. van Vogt
• 76 •  Juggernaut • interior artwork by Robert Noback
• 80 •  Juggernaut • interior artwork by J. DeFrancesco
• 84 • And the Sea Like Mirrors • (1972) • short story by Gregory Benford
• 84 •  And the Sea Like Mirrors • interior artwork by Rodney Dale Stevens
• 96 • Robbie • [The Positronic Robot Stories] • (1950) • short story by Isaac Asimov (variant of Strange Playfellow 1940)
• 96 •  Robbie • interior artwork by Tom Gieseke