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• 11 • Introduction: Trends in Modern Science-Fiction • (1949) • essay by Melvin Korshak
• 19 • Preface (The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1949) • (1949) • essay by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty
• 29 • Mars Is Heaven! • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1948) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 51 • Ex Machina • [Gallegher (Henry Kuttner)] • (1948) • novelette by Henry Kuttner [as by Lewis Padgett]
• 92 • The Strange Case of John Kingman • (1948) • short story by Murray Leinster
• 112 • Doughnut Jockey • (1948) • short story by Erik Fennel
• 130 • Thang • (1948) • short story by Martin Gardner
• 132 • Period Piece • (1948) • short story by John R. Pierce [as by J. J. Coupling]
• 141 • Knock • (1948) • short story by Fredric Brown
• 154 • Genius • (1948) • novelette by Poul Anderson
• 195 • And the Moon Be Still As Bright • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1948) • novelette by Ray Bradbury
• 226 • No Connection • (1948) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 250 • In Hiding • [Children of the Atom] • (1948) • novelette by Wilmar H. Shiras
• 292 • Happy Ending • (1948) • novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner]