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• ix • Introduction (First Voyages) • essay by Damon Knight
• 1 • The Isolinguals • (1937) • short story by L. Sprague de Camp
• 21 • The Faithful • (1938) • short story by Lester del Rey
• 33 • Black Destroyer • [Space Beagle] • (1939) • novelette by A. E. van Vogt
• 67 • Life-Line • [Future History] • (1939) • short story by Robert A. Heinlein
• 87 • Ether Breather • [Ether Breather] • (1939) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 103 • Proof • (1942) • short story by Hal Clement
• 123 • Loophole • (1946) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 131 • Tomorrow's Children • [Tomorrow's Children • 1] • (1947) • novelette by Poul Anderson and F. N. Waldrop [as by Poul Anderson]
• 161 • That Only a Mother • (1948) • short story by Judith Merril
• 173 • Scanners Live in Vain • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1950) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
• 213 • Time Trap • (1948) • novelette by Charles L. Harness
• 245 • Defense Mechanism • (1949) • short story by Katherine MacLean
• 255 • Angel's Egg • (1951) • novelette by Edgar Pangborn
• 295 • Come On, Wagon! • (1951) • short story by Zenna Henderson
• 307 • Walk to the World • (1952) • short story by Algis Budrys
• 321 • Beyond Lies the Wub • (1952) • short story by Philip K. Dick
• 331 • My Boy Friend's Name Is Jello • (1954) • short story by Avram Davidson
• 337 • T • (1956) • short story by Brian W. Aldiss
• 345 • Prima Belladonna • [Vermilion Sands] • (1956) • short story by J. G. Ballard
• 361 • April in Paris • (1962) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin