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• 9 • Introduction (Science Fiction Through the Ages 1) • essay by I. O. Evans
• 13 • Secret Weapon • short story by Sir Walter Scott [as by Walter Scott]
• 19 • The Vanished Civilization • short story by Plato
• 22 • Interplanetary Warfare • short fiction by Lucian of Samosata (variant of A True Story (excerpt) 1965) [as by Lucian]
• 30 • The Moon-Voyage • short fiction by Johannes Kepler (trans. of Somnium, sive Astronomia Lunaris 1634)
• 37 • Utopian Science Fiction (excerpt from "The New Atlantis") • short story by Francis Bacon
• 49 • Satirical Science Fiction • short fiction by Jonathan Swift (variant of Gulliver's Travels (excerpt) 1973) [as by Dean Swift]
• 71 • The Human Mutant (excerpt from "The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins") • short story by Robert Paltock
• 91 • Visitors from Outer Space (excerpt from Micromégas) • short story by Voltaire
• 104 • The Recalcitrant Robot (excerpt from Frankenstein) • [Frankenstein] • short story by Mary Shelley
• 117 • The Menace of the Machine • short story by Samuel Butler
• 136 • The Conquest of the Air • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of The Balloon-Hoax 1844)
• 149 • Into the Unknown (excerpt from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea) • [Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (abridgments, adaptations, and excerpts)] • short story by Jules Verne
• 156 • Bibliography (Science Fiction Through the Ages 1) • essay by uncredited