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• xiii • Introduction (Of Men and Machines) • essay by Arthur O. Lewis [as by Arthur O. Lewis, Jr.]
• 3 • R. U. R. • (1954) • novella by
  Karel Čapek^?Karel Capek
  Karel Chapek
  (trans. of R. U. R. 1920)
• 59 • The Monastery and the Clock • (1934) • essay by Lewis Mumford
• 64 • Works and Days • (1870) • essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 79 • From Cybernation: The Silent Conquest • (1962) • essay by Donald N. Michael
• 88 • Problem for Emmy • (1952) • short story by Robert Sherman Townes [as by Robert S. Townes]
• 97 • The Bear • (1928) • poem by Robert Frost
• 98 • When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer • (1865) • poem by Walt Whitman
• 101 • The House of Salomon (excerpt from The New Atlantis) • (1626) • short fiction by Francis Bacon
• 110 • The Hammer • (1910) • poem by Carl Sandburg
• 110 • The Division of Labour • (1776) • essay by Adam Smith (1723-1790)
• 114 • Mechanic Arts • (1803) • essay by Samuel Miller (19th century)
• 125 • From Equality: A History of Lithconia (excerpt) • (1802) • short fiction by Anonymous
• 126 • The Pushbutton Cornucopia • (1959) • essay by Anonymous
• 131 • The Teaching Machine • (1959) • essay by George R. Price
• 140 • Robbie • [The Positronic Robot Stories] • (1950) • short story by Isaac Asimov (variant of Strange Playfellow 1940)
• 159 • The Portable Phonograph • (1941) • short story by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
• 169 • Poetry in a Machine Age • (1957) • essay by Paul Engle
• 174 • I Like to See It Lap the Miles • (1891) • poem by Emily Dickinson
• 175 • To a Locomotive in Winter • (1876) • poem by Walt Whitman
• 176 • Prayers of Steel • (1918) • poem by Carl Sandburg
• 177 • The Express • (1933) • poem by Stephen Spender
• 177 • Machinery • (1929) • poem by Macknight Black
• 178 • The Landscape Near an Aerodrome • (1933) • poem by Stephen Spender
• 183 • Darwin Among the Machines • (1863) • essay by Samuel Butler [as by Cellarius]
• 187 • Nightmare Number Three • (1935) • poem by
  Stephen Vincent Benét^?Stephen Vincent Benet
• 190 • Man Alone • (1932) • short story by Wolcott Gibbs
• 190 • Poem xxxi • (1895) • poem by Stephen Crane
• 194 • John Henry • (1870) • poem by Anonymous
• 195 • Automation • (1960) • poem by Joe Glazer
• 196 • From Player Piano • (1952) • short fiction by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• 198 • Debate on the Frame-Work Bill • (1812) • essay by Lord George Gordon Byron [as by Lord Byron]
• 205 • The Egg and the Machine • (1925) • poem by Robert Frost
• 206 • Tractoring Off (excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath) • non-genre • (1939) • short fiction by John Steinbeck
• 210 • Lift Up Thine Eyes • (1930) • essay by Sherwood Anderson
• 216 • Joe, the Vanishing American • (1957) • short story by Harvey Swados
• 233 • My Watch • non-genre • (1870) • short story by Mark Twain
• 236 • The Education of the Worker • (1776) • essay by Adam Smith (1723-1790)
• 239 • From The Long Way Back • (1954) • short fiction by Margot Bennett
• 244 • The Unknown Citizen • (1939) • poem by W. H. Auden
• 246 • Selection from Brave New World (pages 189-191) • [Brave New World excerpts] • (1932) • short fiction by Aldous Huxley
• 247 • Sonnet: To Science • (1829) • poem by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of Sonnet—to Science)
• 247 • From The Road to Wigan Pier • (1937) • short fiction by George Orwell
• 260 • Limited • (1916) • poem by Carl Sandburg
• 261 • The Machine Stops • (1909) • novelette by E. M. Forster
• 261 • pity this busy monster, manunkind • (1944) • poem by e. e. cummings
• 295 • Technological Change • (1960) • essay by Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
• 309 • Recent Thoughts on the Two Cultures • (1962) • essay by C. P. Snow
• 315 • The Reading Machine • (1947) • short story by Morris Bishop
• 318 • What Happened to the Teaching Machine? • (1962) • essay by Edward C. Weir
• 321 • Group Dynamics and Intergroup Relations • (1955) • essay by George Strauss
• 327 • A Lone Striker • (1933) • poem by Robert Frost
• 329 • The Hour of Letdown • (1951) • short story by E. B. White
• 334 • A Projection • (1955) • poem by Reed Whittemore
• 335 • But Who Can Replace a Man? • (1958) • short story by Brian W. Aldiss (variant of Who Can Replace a Man?)
• 344 • There Will Come Soft Rains • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury