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• 9 • Introduction: The First Century of Science Fiction • [Asimov's Essays: Others' Work] • (1981) • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 13 • The Sandman • (1943) • novelette by E. T. A. Hoffmann (trans. of Der Sandmann 1816)
• 49 • The Mortal Immortal • (1833) • short story by Mary Shelley
• 65 • A Descent Into the Maelstrom • (1852) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of
  A Descent Into the Maelström^?A Descent Into the Maelstrom
  A Descent Into the Maelstroem
  1841)
• 83 • Rappaccini's Daughter • [Rappaccini • 1] • (1844) • novelette by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 113 • The Clock That Went Backward • (1881) • short story by Edward Page Mitchell
• 129 • Into the Sun • [Into the Sun • 1] • (1882) • short story by Robert Duncan Milne
• 149 • A Tale of Negative Gravity • (1884) • novelette by Frank R. Stockton
• 171 • The Horla, or Modern Ghosts • [Le Horla • 3] • (1910) • novelette by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Le Horla 1887)
• 195 • The Shapes • (1968) • novelette by
  J. H. Rosny aîné^?J. H. Rosny aine
  (trans. of
  Les Xipéhuz^?Les Xipehuz
  1887)
• 221 • To Whom This May Come • (1889) • short story by Edward Bellamy
• 239 • The Great Keinplatz Experiment • (1885) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
• 257 • In the Abyss • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 275 • The Thames Valley Catastrophe • (1897) • short story by Grant Allen
• 295 • The Lizard • (1898) • short story by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
• 305 • A Thousand Deaths • (1899) • short story by Jack London