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• xv • Introduction (Laughing Space) • [Asimov's Essays: Others' Work] • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 3 • A Fuller Explanation of Original Sin • poem by Isaac Asimov and Janet Asimov [as by Isaac Asimov and Janet O. Jeppson]
• 5 • Et Tu • (1980) • poem by John Stallings
• 6 • Creation • (1970) • poem by L. Sprague de Camp
• 8 • Stag Night, Paleolithic • (1948) • poem by Ogden Nash
• 9 • An Epicurean Fragment • (1933) • poem by Robert Hillyer
• 15 • Spaced Out • (1975) • short story by Russell Baker
• 17 • The Coffin Cure • (1957) • short story by Alan E. Nourse
• 30 • Silenzia • (1953) • short story by Alan Nelson
• 41 • The Agony of Defeat • (1978) • short story by Jack C. Haldeman, II
• 47 • Epitaph on Rigel XII • (1977) • poem by Sherwood Springer
• 47 • Epitaph on Ceres • (1977) • poem by Sherwood Springer
• 48 • The Snowball Effect • (1952) • short story by Katherine MacLean
• 59 • Pâté de Foie Gras • (1956) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 73 • The Available Data on the Worp Reaction • (1953) • short story by Lion Miller
• 77 • Imaginary Numbers in a Real Garden • (1965) • poem by Gerald Jonas
• 78 • The Mathenauts • (1964) • short story by Norman Kagan
• 90 • Coffee Break • (1968) • short story by D. F. Jones
• 100 • Putzi • (1935) • short story by Ludwig Bemelmans
• 105 • All Things Come to Those Who Weight • (1980) • short story by Robert Grossbach
• 111 • Derm Fool • (1940) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 123 • The Heart on the Other Side • (1962) • short story by George Gamow
• 130 • Blackmail • (1967) • short story by Fred Hoyle
• 134 • A Slight Miscalculation • (1971) • short story by Ben Bova
• 142 • A Subway Named Mobius • (1950) • short story by A. J. Deutsch
• 156 • A Sinister Metamorphosis • (1965) • short story by Russell Baker
• 158 • Something Up There Likes Me • (1973) • short story by Alfred Bester
• 177 • A Prize for Edie • (1961) • short story by J. F. Bone
• 181 • Isaac Asimov's "The Caves of Steel" • [Parodies Tossed] • (1980) • poem by Randall Garrett (variant of Parodies Tossed: Isaac Asimov's "The Caves of Steel" 1956)
• 189 • Neptune • (1977) • poem by Sansoucy Kathenor [as by Sansoucy North]
• 190 • Pluto • (1977) • poem by Sansoucy Kathenor [as by Sansoucy North]
• 191 • Jury-Rig • (1957) • short story by Avram Davidson
• 200 • Protection • (1956) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• 209 • The Self-Priming Solid-State Electronic Chicken • (1970) • short story by Jon Lucas (variant of The Self-Priming, Solid-State Electronic Chicken)
• 222 • The Night He Cried • (1953) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 228 • The Big Pat Boom • (1963) • short story by Damon Knight
• 234 • The Adventure of the Solitary Engineer • (1979) • short story by John M. Ford
• 244 • Report on "Grand Central Terminal" • (1952) • short story by Leo Szilard
• 249 • Ad Astra, Al • (1979) • poem by Mary W. Stanton
• 250 • They'll Do It Every Time • (1978) • short story by Cam Thornley
• 252 • No Homelike Place • (1979) • short story by Dian Girard (variant of No Home-Like Place)
• 257 • Simworthy's Circus • (1950) • short story by Larry T. Shaw
• 268 • A Growing Concern • (1978) • short story by Arnie Bateman
• 272 • The Vilbar Party • (1955) • short story by Evelyn E. Smith
• 280 • A Pestilence of Psychoanalysts • [Pshrinks Anonymous] • (1980) • short story by Janet Asimov [as by J. O. Jeppson]
• 288 • Death of a Foy • (1980) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 291 • The One Thing Lacking • poem by Isaac Asimov
• 293 • The Merchant of Stratford • (1979) • short story by Frank Ramirez
• 301 • The Wheel of Time • (1950) • short story by Robert Arthur
• 315 • Quit Zoomin' Those Hands Through the Air • (1951) • short story by Jack Finney
• 327 • The Adventure of the Global Traveler or: The Global Consequences of How the Reichenbach Falls into the Wells of Iniquitie • (1978) • short story by Anne Lear
• 334 • Pebble in Time • (1970) • short story by Avram Davidson and Cynthia Goldstone
• 338 • Ahead of the Joneses • (1979) • short story by Al Sarrantonio
• 341 • The Pinch Hitters • [Sandor Courane] • (1979) • short story by George Alec Effinger (variant of The Pinch-Hitters)
• 350 • Swift Completion • (1979) • poem by Brad Cahoon
• 357 • A Skald's Lament • (1955) • poem by L. Sprague de Camp
• 358 • The Stunning Science Fiction Caper • (1957) • short story by Thomas N. Scortia [as by Gerald Macdow]
• 361 • I, Claude • [Claude Adams] • (1956) • short story by Charles Beaumont and Chad Oliver
• 374 • Out of Control • (1970) • short story by Raylyn Moore
• 384 • Slush • (1979) • short story by K. J. Snow
• 390 • An Unsolicited Submission • (1977) • poem by Deborah Crawford
• 391 • Judo and the Art of Self-Government • (1980) • short story by Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.
• 398 • Lulu • (1957) • novelette by Clifford D. Simak
• 432 • The Splendid Source • (1956) • short story by Richard Matheson
• 446 • MS. Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie • (1957) • short story by C. M. Kornbluth
• 456 • The Several Murders of Roger Ackroyd • (1977) • short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• 461 • The Critique of Impure Reason • (1962) • novelette by Poul Anderson
• 480 • One Rejection Too Many • (1978) • short story by Patricia Nurse
• 484 • Bug-Getter • (1960) • short story by Reginald Bretnor [as by R. Bretnor]
• 487 • The Last Gothic • (1979) • short story by Jon L. Breen
• 494 • A Benefactor of Humanity • (1958) • short story by James T. Farrell
• 498 • The Silver Eggheads (excerpt) • (1982) • short fiction by Fritz Leiber
• 503 • Adverbs • (1976) • poem by E. Y. Harburg
• 504 • Dry Spell • (1970) • short story by Bill Pronzini
• 509 • The Odds-On Favorite • (1976) • poem by E. Y. Harburg
• 515 • MS Fnd in a Lbry • (1961) • short story by Hal Draper