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• 9 • Foreword (Catastrophes!) • [Asimov's Essays: Others' Work] • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 11 • Universe Destroyed • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 12 • The Last Trump • (1955) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 27 • No Other Gods • (1972) • short story by Edward Wellen
• 33 • The Wine Has Been Left Open Too Long and the Memory Has Gone Flat • (1976) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 42 • Stars, Won't You Hide Me? • (1966) • short story by Ben Bova
• 56 • Sun Destroyed • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 57 • Judgement Day • (1958) • short story by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
• 67 • The Custodian • (1953) • novelette by William Tenn
• 86 • Phoenix • (1954) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• 96 • Run from the Fire • (1975) • novelette by Harry Harrison
• 127 • Earth Destroyed • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 128 • Requiem • (1962) • short story by Edmond Hamilton
• 145 • At the Core • [Known Space] • (1966) • novelette by Larry Niven
• 163 • A Pail of Air • (1951) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 176 • King of the Hill • (1972) • short story by Chad Oliver
• 193 • Humanity Destroyed • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 194 • The New Atlantis • (1975) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 217 • History Lesson • (1949) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 226 • Seeds of the Dusk • [When Earth Is Old • 1] • (1938) • novelette by Raymond Z. Gallun
• 253 • Dark Benediction • (1951) • novella by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• 306 • Civilization Destroyed • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 307 • Last Night of Summer • (1954) • short story by Alfred Coppel
• 316 • The Store of the Worlds • (1959) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• 322 • How It Was When the Past Went Away • (1969) • novella by Robert Silverberg
• 381 • Shark Ship • (1958) • novelette by C. M. Kornbluth (variant of Reap the Dark Tide)
• 413 • Afterword (Catastrophes!) • [Asimov's Essays: Others' Work] • essay by Isaac Asimov