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• 1 • Introduction (The Road to Science Fiction #1) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 15 • The First Voyage to the Moon • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 16 • From A True Story • (unknown) • short fiction by Lucian of Samosata
• 28 • Strange Creatures and Far Traveling • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 31 • From The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville • (1950) • short fiction by Anonymous
• 38 • The Good Place That Is No Place • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 41 • From Utopia • (1516) • short fiction by Sir Thomas More [as by Thomas More]
• 48 • The New Science and the Old Religion • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 49 • From The City of the Sun • (1923) • short fiction by Tommaso Campanella
• 60 • Experience, Experiment, and the Battle for Men's Minds • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 61 • From The New Atlantis • (unknown) • short fiction by Francis Bacon
• 84 • A New Look at the Heavens and Another Trip to the Moon • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 86 • Somnium, or Lunar Astronomy • short story by Johannes Kepler (trans. of Somnium, sive Astronomia Lunaris 1634)
• 103 • Commuting to the Moon • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 105 • From A Voyage to the Moon • [Les états et empires de la Lune et du Soleil] • short fiction by Cyrano de Bergerac
• 112 • The Age of Reason and the Voice of Dissent • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 115 • From "A Voyage to Laputa" • short fiction by Jonathan Swift
• 151 • Imaginary Voyages in the Other Direction • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 154 • From The Journey to the World Underground • (1741) • short fiction by Ludvig Holberg
• 161 • Science and Literature: When Worlds Collide • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 164 • From Frankenstein (or, The Modern Prometheus) • [Frankenstein] • short fiction by Mary Shelley
• 177 • Science as Symbol • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 180 • Rappaccini's Daughter • [Rappaccini • 1] • (1844) • novelette by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 209 • Anticipations of the Future • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 212 • Mellonta Tauta • (1849) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 226 • Expanding the Vision • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 228 • The Diamond Lens • (1858) • novelette by Fitz-James O'Brien
• 253 • The Indispensable Frenchman • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 256 • From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea • [Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (abridgments, adaptations, and excerpts)] • short fiction by Jules Verne
• 270 • From Around the Moon • [Baltimore Gun Club] • short fiction by Jules Verne
• 289 • Lost Civilizations and Ancient Knowledge • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 292 • From She • [Ayesha] • short fiction by H. Rider Haggard
• 312 • The New Frontier • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 315 • From Looking Backward, 2000-1887 • (1888) • short fiction by Edward Bellamy
• 345 • New Magazines, New Readers, New Writers • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 347 • The Damned Thing • (1893) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 357 • A Flying Start • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 359 • With the Night Mail • [Aerial Board of Control • 1] • (1905) • novelette by Rudyard Kipling
• 380 • The Father of Modern Science Fiction • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 383 • The Star • (1897) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 394 • A Selected Bibliography of Books About Science Fiction • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 396 • A Basic Science-Fiction Library • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]