Contents:

• 1. Wizards and Wotsits: Stories of Cosmic Absurdity
  • Theatre of Cruelty by Terry Pratchett
  • How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art upon the Gnoles by Lord Dunsany
  • Hell Hath No Fury by John Collier
  • The Twonky by Henry Kuttner
  • A Great Deal of Power by Eric Frank Russell
  • Doodad by Ray Bradbury
  • Not By Its Cover by Philip K. Dick
  • The Rule of Names by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 2. Swords and Sorcery: Tales of Heroic Fantasy
  • Mythological Beast by Stephen Donaldson
  • The Adventure of the Snowing Globe by F. Anstey
  • Affairs in Poictesme [from Figures of Earth] by James Branch Cabell
  • The Ring of Hans Carvel by Fredric Brown
  • The Bait by Fritz Leiber
  • A Good Knight’s Work by Robert Bloch
  • Poor Little Warrior by Brian W. Aldiss
  • The Odd Old Bird by Avram Davidson
• 3. Astronauts and Aliens: Space Opera Yarns
  • Young Zaphod Plays It Safe by Douglas Adams
  • The Wild Asses of the Devil [from Boon] by H. G. Wells
  • Ministering Angels by C.S. Lewis
  • The Gnurrs Come from the Voodvork Out by Reginald Bretnor
  • Captain Wyxtpthll’s Flying Saucer by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Playboy and the Slime God ["What Is This Thing Called Love?"]by Isaac Asimov
  • There’s a Wolf in My Time Machine by Larry Niven
  • 2 B R 0 2 B by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.