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• ix • Introduction (The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories) • essay by Tom Shippey
• 1 • The Land Ironclads • (1903) • novelette by H. G. Wells
• 22 • Finis • short story by Frank Lillie Pollock [as by Frank L. Pollack]
• 33 • As Easy As ABC • [Aerial Board of Control • 2] • novelette by Rudyard Kipling (variant of As Easy As A. B. C. 1912)
• 59 • The Metal Man • (1928) • short story by Jack Williamson
• 70 • A Martian Odyssey • [Tweel • 1] • (1934) • novelette by Stanley G. Weinbaum
• 95 • Night • [Twilight • 2] • (1935) • short story by John W. Campbell, Jr.
• 115 • Desertion • [City] • (1944) • short story by Clifford D. Simak
• 127 • The Piper's Son • [Baldy] • (1945) • novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
• 154 • The Monster • (1948) • short story by A. E. van Vogt
• 171 • The Second Night of Summer • [Agents of Vega] • (1950) • novelette by James H. Schmitz
• 198 • Second Dawn • (1951) • novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
• 228 • Crucifixus Etiam • (1953) • short story by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• 247 • The Tunnel Under the World • (1955) • novelette by Frederik Pohl
• 278 • Who Can Replace a Man? • (1960) • short story by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 287 • Billennium • (1961) • short story by J. G. Ballard
• 302 • The Ballad of Lost C'mell • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1962) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
• 322 • Semley's Necklace • [Hainish] • (1964) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin (variant of The Dowry of Angyar)
• 340 • How Beautiful with Banners • (1966) • short story by James Blish
• 350 • A Criminal Act • (1966) • short story by Harry Harrison
• 363 • Problems of Creativeness • (1967) • novelette by Thomas M. Disch
• 385 • How the Whip Came Back • (1970) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 400 • Cloak of Anarchy • [Known Space] • (1972) • novelette by Larry Niven
• 420 • A Thing of Beauty • (1973) • short story by Norman Spinrad
• 435 • The Screwfly Solution • (1977) • novelette by James Tiptree, Jr. [as by Raccoona Sheldon]
• 454 • The Way of Cross and Dragon • [Thousand Worlds] • (1979) • short story by George R. R. Martin
• 472 • Swarm • [Shaper/Mechanist] • (1982) • novelette by Bruce Sterling
• 496 • Burning Chrome • [Neuromancer / Sprawl Trilogy] • (1982) • novelette by William Gibson
• 516 • Silicon Muse • (1984) • short story by Hilbert Schenck
• 535 • Karl and the Ogre • (1988) • short story by Paul J. McAuley
• 550 • Piecework • (1990) • novelette by David Brin
• 577 • Select Bibliography (The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories) • essay by Tom Shippey
• 583 • Sources (The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories) • essay by Tom Shippey