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• Introduction (Fighting the Future War) • (2011) • essay by Frederic Krome
• Part One: Hugo Gernsback and World War I • (2011) • essay by Frederic Krome
• Imagination Versus Facts • (1916) • essay by Hugo Gernsback
• The Trench Destroyer • (1917) • essay by Hugo Gernsback
• Shooting with Electricity • (1917) • essay by Hugo Gernsback
• Winning the War • (1918) • essay by Hugo Gernsback
• Science and War • (1918) • essay by Hugo Gernsback
• Will the Germans Bombard New York? • (1918) • essay by Hugo Gernsback
• The Magnetic Storm • (1918) • short story by Hugo Gernsback
• Part Two: The Future War Story During World War I • (2011) • essay by Frederic Krome
• The Inventor of Meltite • (1916) • short story by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
• Omegon • [Fred Cawthorne] • (1915) • short story by George Frederic Stratton
• The Gravitation Nullifier • [Fred Cawthorne] • (1915) • short story by George Frederic Stratton
• Eddy Currents • (2011) • short story by C. M. Adams (variant of "Eddy Currents" 1917)
• Part Three: The Inter-War Years and the Rise of the Airmen • (2011) • essay by Frederic Krome
• Fiction Versus Facts • [Editorial (Amazing Stories)] • (1926) • essay by Hugo Gernsback
• Armageddon—2419 A. D.^?Armageddon-2419 A. D.
  • [Buck Rogers • 1] • (1928) • novella by Philip Francis Nowlan
• The Bloodless War • (2011) • short story by David H. Keller, M.D. [as by David H. Keller]
• Clouds of Death • (1929) • short story by Louis Buswell
• The Rocket and the Next War • (1931) • essay by David Lasser
• The Revolt of the Scientists • [Revolt of the Scientists • 1] • (2011) • novelette by Nat Schachner (variant of Revolt of the Scientists 1933) [as by Nathan Schachner]
• Part Four: The Ambivalence of Science: Technology and Armageddon • (2011) • essay by Frederic Krome
• The Final War (part 2 of 2) • (1932) • serial by Carl W. Spohr
• Holocaust • (1931) • novelette by Charles Willard Diffin
• World Gone Mad • (1935) • short story by Nat Schachner
• No Medals • (1935) • short story by H. L. Gold [as by Leigh Keith]
• War in a Mechanistic Civilization • (1939) • essay by Major J. Halpin Connolly
• Part Five: After the Future War • (2011) • essay by Frederic Krome
• After Armageddon • (1932) • short story by Francis Flagg
• There Shall Be Darkness • (1942) • novelette by C. L. Moore
• The Green Plague • (1934) • short story by Stanton A. Coblentz
• Rust • (1939) • short story by Joseph E. Kelleam
• Part Six: World War II • (2011) • essay by Frederic Krome
• The Ice Plague • (1939) • short story by Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr.
• Dr. Loudon's Armageddon • (1941) • short story by Henry S. Lewis [as by Alexander Blade]
• Deadline • (1944) • novelette by Cleve Cartmill
• Conclusion: Old Wine in New Bottles? • (2011) • essay by Frederic Krome