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• ix • Kaleidoscope: When Worlds Kaleid • (1997) • essay by Forrest J. Ackerman
• xi • Foreword (Ackermanthology: 65 Astonishing Rediscovered Sci-Fi Shorts, Millennium Edition) • (1997) • essay by John Landis
• 13 • I (Alone) Stand in a World of Legless Humans • (1976) • short story by Dennis Palumbo
• 16 • Under the Lavender Skies • (1974) • short story by Adrian Hayworth
• 18 • The Cat & the Canaries • (1957) • short story by Helen M. Urban (variant of The Cat and the Canaries)
• 20 • Eye of the Beholder • (1976) • short story by Shirley Parenteau
• 24 • Litter of the Law • [Shock Short] • (1975) • short story by J. Douglas Burtt
• 27 • Traders in Treasures • (1934) • short story by C. P. Mason
• 34 • Pressure Cruise • (1974) • short story by
  Александр Горбовский^?Alexander Gorbovsky
  Aleksandr Gorbovsky
  (trans. of
  Тщетность^?Tshchetnost'
  1972) [as by Andrei Gorbovskii]
• 38 • Alien Catastrophe • [Shock Short] • (1974) • short story by Henry Melton
• 41 • The Tweenie • [Half-Breed • 1] • (1940) • novelette by Isaac Asimov (variant of Half-Breed)
• 59 • Deathrace 2000 • (1956) • short story by Ib Melchior (variant of The Racer) [as by Ib J. Melchior]
• 69 • The Swordsmen of Varnis • (1950) • short story by Clive Jackson
• 71 • Starburst • (1976) • short story by Robert Lulyk
• 74 • The Cosmic Kidnappers • (1993) • short story by Forrest J. Ackerman and Christian Vallini [as by S. F. Balboa and Christian Vallini]
• 75 • Cosmic Parallel • (1941) • short fiction by Arthur Louis Joquel, II
• 78 • The Sky's an Oyster; the Stars Are Pearls • (1975) • short story by David Bischoff [as by Dave Bischoff]
• 81 • And Satan Came • (1940) • short story by Robert A. W. Lowndes
• 85 • Experiment • [Shock Short] • (1974) • short story by R. H. Barlow (variant of The Experiment 1935)
• 89 • Golden Nemesis • (1941) • short story by David A. Kyle
• 96 • Secret of the Sun • (1939) • short story by Ray Cummings
• 103 • Pallas Rebellion • (1950) • short story by Donald A. Wollheim
• 106 • The Curious Experience of Thomas Dunbar • (1904) • short story by Francis Stevens [as by G. M. Barrows]
• 116 • A Scientist Rises • (1975) • short story by Harry Bates and D. W. Hall [as by Harry Bates and Desmond Winter Hall]
• 123 • Homecoming • [Shock Short] • (1955) • short story by J. Harvey Haggard
• 127 • The Impossible Invention • (1942) • short story by Robert Moore Williams
• 139 • The Smile • (1952) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 144 • The Far Way • (1935) • short story by David R. Daniels
• 155 • Parasite Lost • (1974) • short story by Raymond James Jones
• 156 • Messenger to Infinity • (1942) • short story by J. Harvey Haggard
• 160 • Sic Transit Gloria Mundi • (1997) • short story by George Allen
• 164 • A Question of Priorities • (1975) • short story by Allan J. Wind
• 167 • The Banning • (1977) • short story by Carmel Lou Rhoten
• 169 • The Last Poet & the Wrongness of Space • (1934) • short fiction by A. Merritt
• 175 • Let the Future Judge • [Shock Short] • (1974) • short story by L. Lester Anderson
• 178 • The Final Men • [H. G. Wells' Time Machine Universe] • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 181 • Navigational Error • (1997) • short fiction by Steve Tymon
• 183 • Devonshire's Song • [Shock Short] • (1974) • short story by Matt Graham
• 187 • A Martian Oddity • (1950) • short fiction by Forrest J. Ackerman [as by Weaver Wright]
• 191 • Love • (1952) • short story by Richard Wilson
• 197 • The Golden Pyramid • (1956) • short story by Sam Moskowitz
• 201 • The Biography Project • (1951) • short story by H. L. Gold [as by Horace L. Gold]
• 204 • I'll Kill You Tomorrow • (1953) • short story by Helen Huber
• 211 • Police Action • [Shock Short] • (1975) • short story by S. C. Smith
• 213 • Where There's Hope • (1953) • short story by Jerome Bixby
• 218 • The Queen & I • (1973) • short story by Steven Utley
• 222 • Untimely Interruption • (1974) • short story by Matt Graham
• 223 • Extenuating Circumstances • (1977) • short story by Ann M. Orhelein [as by Ann Orhelein]
• 227 • Punishment Fit the Crime • (1953) • short story by Lyn Venable
• 232 • To Serf MAN • (1974) • short story by Forrest J. Ackerman (variant of To Serf Man) [as by Coil Kepac]
• 234 • Theory or Fact? • (1975) • short story by Michael R. Farkash
• 237 • Kiki • (1947) • short story by Forrest J. Ackerman [as by Laurajean Ermayne]
• 241 • For the Good of Society • (1993) • short story by Terri E. Pinckard [as by Terri E. Merrit-Pinckard]
• 245 • Twice Removed • [Shock Short] • (1974) • short story by R. Michael Rosen
• 248 • Replacement Part • (1974) • short story by Greg Akers
• 249 • The Satellite-Keeper's Daughter • (1956) • short story by Mark Reinsberg
• 255 • Nymph of Darkness • [Northwest Smith] • short story by Forrest J. Ackerman and C. L. Moore [as by Forrest J. Ackerman and Catherine L. Moore]
• 266 • The Genesis of an Invisible Venusienne • (1989) • essay by Forrest J. Ackerman
• 267 • The "Nymph" o' Maniack • (1948) • essay by Forrest J. Ackerman
• 271 • Itself! • (1963) • short story by A. E. van Vogt
• 275 • Big, Wide, Wonderful World • [Shock Short] • (1958) • short story by Charles E. Fritch
• 278 • The Door • (1941) • short story by Oliver Saari
• 282 • Racial Memory • (1974) • short story by Ralph O. Hughes, Jr.
• 283 • Tunnel • (1977) • short story by Roger Aday
• 285 • Inferiority • (1954) • short story by James Causey
• 289 • Task of the Temponaut • (1973) • short story by Van Del Rio and Norbert F. Novotny
• 291 • Beauty • (1942) • short story by Hannes Bok
• 298 • The Shortest SF Story Ever Told • (1973) • short story by Forrest J. Ackerman (variant of Cosmic Report Card: Earth)
• 299 • Final Victory • (1976) • short story by Jill Taggart