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• 7 • Introduction (Science Fiction Oddities) • essay by Groff Conklin
• 9 • People Soup • (1958) • short story by Alan Arkin
• 16 • What Is This Thing Called Love? • (1961) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 29 • Callahan and the Wheelies • (1960) • novelette by Stephen Barr
• 57 • Mrs. Poppledore's Id • (1952) • novelette by Reginald Bretnor [as by R. Bretnor]
• 78 • The Teeth of Despair • (1961) • short story by Avram Davidson and Sidney Klein
• 92 • The Galactic Calabash • [Mad Friend • 3] • (1960) • short story by G. C. Edmondson
• 100 • Space-Crime Continuum • (1954) • short story by H. F. Ellis
• 105 • The Chessplayers • (1953) • short story by Charles L. Harness
• 117 • What's the Name of That Town? • [Institute for Impure Science] • (1964) • short story by R. A. Lafferty
• 128 • Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-TAH-Tee • [Simon Grue] • (1958) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 143 • Rundown • (1963) • short story by Robert Lory
• 148 • The Trouble with H.A.R.R.I. • [Hek Belov] • (1957) • short story by Edward Mackin
• 158 • The Water Eater • (1953) • short story by Winston K. Marks
• 169 • A Pride of Carrots • (1959) • short story by Robert Nathan
• 203 • The Terra-Venusian War of 1979 • (1959) • short story by Gerard E. Neyroud
• 212 • The Coffin Cure • (1957) • short story by Alan E. Nourse
• 227 • On Camera • (1956) • short story by John Novotny
• 243 • See No Evil • (1966) • short story by John R. Pierce
• 253 • Punch • (1961) • short story by Frederik Pohl