Asimov and Greenberg compile and edit this collection of the greatest Science Fiction short stories of 1954. Each story begins with comments from both.

Contents:

• The Test by Richard Matheson
• Anachron by Damon Knight
• Black Charlie by Gordon R. Dickson
• Down Among the Dead Men by William Tenn
• The Hunting Lodge by Randall Garrett
• The Lysenko Maze by Donald A. Wollheim
• Fondly Farenheit by Alfred Bester
• The Cold Equations by Tom Godwin
• Letters From Laura by Mildred Clingerman
• Transformer by Chad Oliver
• The Music Master of Babylon by Edgar Pangborn
• The End of Summer by Algis Budrys
• The Father-Thing by Philip K. Dick
• The Deep Range by Arthur C. Clarke
• Balaam by Anthony Boucher
• Man of Parts by H.L. Gold
• Answer by Fredric Brown