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• 1 • Introduction: Competition! • [Asimov's Essays: Others' Work] • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 4 • Run to Starlight • (1974) • novelette by George R. R. Martin
• 33 • The Mickey Mouse Olympics • short story by Thomas Sullivan [as by Tom Sullivan]
• 47 • Dream Fighter • (1977) • short story by Bob Shaw
• 59 • The Kokod Warriors • [Magnus Ridolph] • (1952) • novelette by Jack Vance
• 94 • Getting Through University • [Dr. Dillingham] • (1968) • novelette by Piers Anthony
• 127 • For the Sake of Grace • [Coyote Jones] • (1969) • novelette by Suzette Haden Elgin
• 150 • The National Pastime • (1973) • novelette by Norman Spinrad
• 169 • A Day for Dying • (1969) • short story by Charles Nuetzel
• 179 • The People Trap • (1968) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• 197 • Why Johnny Can't Speed • (1971) • short story by Alan Dean Foster
• 210 • Nothing in the Rules • (1939) • novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
• 239 • The Olympians • (1982) • short story by Mike Resnick
• 247 • The Wind from the Sun • (1964) • novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
• 267 • Prose Bowl • (1979) • novelette by Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini
• 293 • From Downtown at the Buzzer • (1977) • novelette by George Alec Effinger
• 313 • A Glint of Gold • (1980) • short story by Simon Hawke [as by Nicholas V. Yermakov]
• 329 • The Survivor • (1965) • novelette by Walter F. Moudy