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• vii • Introduction (The Treasury of Science Fiction Classics) • essay by Harold W. Kuebler
• 3 • The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion • (1839) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 8 • The Star • (1897) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 18 • When Worlds Collide (excerpt) • short fiction by Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie
• 63 • The Maracot Deep • (1929) • novel by Arthur Conan Doyle
• 142 • Round the Moon (excerpt) • [Baltimore Gun Club] • short fiction by Jules Verne
• 257 • The Last Terrestrials (excerpt from Last and First Men) • [Last and First Men] • (1930) • short fiction by Olaf Stapledon
• 277 • The Machine Stops • (1909) • novelette by E. M. Forster
• 304 • R. U. R. • (1954) • novella by
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  Karel Chapek
  (trans. of R. U. R. 1920)
• 368 • Brave New World (excerpt) • [Brave New World excerpts] • (1932) • short fiction by Aldous Huxley
• 417 • Invasion from Mars • [H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds Universe] • (1938) • novelette by Howard Koch (variant of The Invasion from Mars: A Radio Adaptation)
• 439 • Edison's Conquest of Mars • (1898) • short story by Garrett P. Serviss
• 547 • The Martians (excerpt from Last and First Men) • (1930) • short fiction by Olaf Stapledon
• 575 • The Time Machine • [H. G. Wells' Time Machine Universe] • (1895) • novella by H. G. Wells
• 638 • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button • (1922) • novelette by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• 660 • The Rat • [The Rat] • (1929) • short story by S. Fowler Wright
• 679 • The Damned Thing • (1893) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 686 • Mr. Strenberry's Tale • (1930) • short story by J. B. Priestley