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• 1 • Introduction (Philosophy and Science Fiction) • essay by Michael Philips
• 9 • Introduction to Part 1: Knowledge and the Meaning of Life (Philosophy and Science Fiction) • essay by Michael Philips
• 17 • Solaris (excerpt) • short fiction by
  Stanisław Lem^?Stanislaw Lem
  (trans. of Solaris (excerpt) unpublished) [as by Stanislaw Lem]
• 88 • They • (1941) • short story by Robert A. Heinlein
• 102 • The Library of Babel • (1962) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of La biblioteca de Babel 1941)
• 113 • Introduction to Part 2: Trips Through Time and Logical Space (Philosophy and Science Fiction) • essay by Michael Philips
• 117 •
  "All You Zombies—"^?"All You Zombies-"
  • (1959) • short story by Robert A. Heinlein (variant of "All You Zombies ...")
• 128 • The Weed of Time • (1970) • short story by Norman Spinrad
• 139 • Introduction to Part 3: The Elusive Self (Philosophy and Science Fiction) • essay by Michael Philips
• 143 • Catch That Zeppelin! • (1975) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 160 • Impostor • (1953) • short story by Philip K. Dick
• 177 • Introduction to Part 4: Persons, Minds, and the Essentially Human (Philosophy and Science Fiction) • essay by Michael Philips
• 183 • The Bicentennial Man • [The Positronic Robot Stories] • (1976) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
• 217 • The Show Must Go On • (1954) • short story by James Causey (variant of So Lovely, So Lost)
• 225 • Who Can Replace a Man? • (1958) • short story by Brian W. Aldiss
• 239 • Introduction to Part 5: Moral Dilemmas (Philosophy and Science Fiction) • essay by Michael Philips
• 247 • Soul Mate • (1959) • short story by Lee Sutton
• 260 • Balaam • (1954) • short story by Anthony Boucher
• 273 • A Word to Space • short story by Poul Anderson (variant of The Word to Space 1960) [as by Winston P. Sanders]
• 278 • Seventh Victim • [Victim] • (1953) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• 297 • Introduction to Part 6: Technology and Human Self-Transformation (Philosophy and Science Fiction) • essay by Michael Philips
• 301 • Breath's a Ware That Will Not Keep • (1975) • short story by Thomas F. Monteleone
• 315 • The Machine Stops • (1909) • novelette by E. M. Forster
• 341 • R. U. R. • (1954) • novella by
  Karel Čapek^?Karel Capek
  Karel Chapek
  (trans. of R. U. R. 1920)