More than 50 stories from the best science fiction writers in the world.

Contents:

• Foreword by Clifton Fadiman
• Introduction by David G. Hartwell
• Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
• Forgetfulness by John W. Campbell Jr.
• Special Flight by John Berryman
• Chronopolis
• Triceratops by Kono Tensei
• The Man Who Lost the Sea by Theodore Sturgeon
• On the Inside Track by Karl Michael Armer
• The Golem by Avram Davidson
• The New Prehistory by Rene Rebetez-Cortes
• A Meeting with Medusa by Arthur C. Clarke
• The Valley of Echoes by Gerard Klein
• The Fifth Head of Cerebus by Gene Wolfe
• The Chaste Planet by John Updike
• The Blind Pilot by Nathalie-Charles Henneberg
• The Men Who Murdered Mohammed by Alfred Bester
• Pairpuppets by Manuel van Loggem
• Two Dooms by C.M. Kornbluth
• Tale of the Computer That Fought a Dragon by Stanislaw Lem
• The Green Hills of Earth by Robert A. Heinlein
• Ghost V by Robert Sheckley
• The Phantam of Kansas by John Varley
• Captain Nemo's Last Adventure by Josef Nesvadba
• Inconstant Moon by Larry Niven
• The Gold at the Starbow's End by Frederik Pohl
• A Sign in Space by Italo Calvino
• The Spiral by Italo Calvino
• The Dead Past by Isaac Asimov
• The Lens by Annemarie van Ewyck
• The Hurkle is a Happy Beast by Theodore Sturgeon
• Zero Hour by Ray Bradbury
• Nine Lives by Ursula Le Guin
• The Muse by Anthony Burgess
• The Public Hating by Steve Allen
• Poor Superman by Fritz Leiber
• Angouleme by Thomas M. Disch
• Stranger Station by Damon Knight
• The Dead Fish by Boris Vian
• I Was the First to Find You by Kirill Bulychev
• The Lineman by Walter M. Miller Jr.
• Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges
• Codemus by Tor Age Bringsvaerd
• A Kind of Artistry by Brian Aldiss
• Second Variety by Philip K. Dick
• Weihnachtsabend by Keith Roberts
• I Do Not Love You, Doctor Fell by Robert Bloch
• Aye, and Gomarah... by Samuel R. Delany
• How Erg the Self-inducting Slew a Paleface by Stanislaw Lem
• Nobody's Home by Joanna Russ
• Party Line by Gerard Klein
• The Proud Robot by Lewis Padgett
• Vinatge Season by Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore
• The Way to Amalteia by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
• Acknowledgements