Contents:
– Introduction: The Science Fiction Blowgun by Isaac Asimov
– *A Loint of Paw* by Isaac Asimov
– *The Advent on Channel Twelve* by C.M. Kornbluth
– *Plaything* by Larry Niven
– *The misfortune cookie* by Charles E. Fritch
– *I Wish I May, I Wish I Might* by Bill Pronzini
– *FTA* by George R.R. Martin
– *Trace* by Jerome Bixby
– *The Ingenious Patriot* by Ambrose Bierce
– *Zoo* by Edward D. Hoch
– *The destiny of Milton Gomrath* by Alexei Panshin
– *The Devil and the trombone* by Martin Gardner
– *Upstart* by Steven Utley
– *How It All Went* by Gregory Benford
– *Harry Protagonist, Brain-Drainer* by Richard Wilson
– *Peeping Tommy* by Robert F. Young
– *Starting from Scratch* by Robert Sheckley
– *Corrida* by Roger Zelazny
– *Shall the dust praise thee?* by Damon Knight
– *Bug-getter* by R. Bretnor
– *The deadly mission of Phineas Snodgrass* by Frederik Pohl
– *Fire sale* by Laurence M. Janifer
– *Safe at Any Speed* by Larry Niven
– *The Masks* by James Blish
– *Innocence* by Joanna Russ
– *Kin* by Richard Wilson
– *The Long Night* by Ray Russell
– *Sanity Clause* by Edward Wellen
– *If at First You Don’t Succeed, to Hell with It!* by Charles E. Fritch
– *The question* by Laurence M. Janifer & Donald E. Westlake
– *The perfect woman* by Robert Sheckley
– *The system* by Ben Bova
– *Exile to Hell* by Isaac Asimov
– *Inaugural* by Barry N. Malzberg & Bill Pronzini
– *Martha* by Fred Saberhagen
– *Kindergarten* by Fritz Leiber
– *Landscape with sphinxes* by Karen Anderson
– *The happiest day of your life* by Bob Shaw
– *The worlds of Monty Willson* by William F. Nolan
– *Punch* by Frederik Pohl
– *Doctor* by Henry Slesar
– *The Man from When* by Dannie Plachta
– *Crying Willow* by Edward Rager
– *January 1975* by Barry N. Malzberg
– *Mail Supremacy* by Hayford Peirce
– *Mistake* by Larry Niven
– *Half-Baked Publisher’s Delight* by Jeffrey S. Hudson & Isaac Asimov
– *Far from Home* by Walter S. Tevis
– *Swords of Ifthan* by Jams Sutherland
– *Argent Blood* by Joe L. Hensley
– *Collector’s Fever* by Roger Zelazny
– *Sign at the End of the Universe* by Duane Ackerson
– *Stubborn* by Stephen Goldin
– *The Re-Creation* by Robert E. Toomey, Jr.
– *The Better Man* by Ray Russell
– *Oom* by Martin Gardner
– *Merchant* by Henry Slesar
– *Don’t Fence Me In* by Richard Wilson
– *The Die-Hard* by Alfred Bester
– *The First* by Anthony Boucher
– *Eripmav* by Damon Knight
– *Feeding Time* by Robert Sheckley
– *The Voice from the Curious Cube* by Nelson Bond
– *I’m Going to Get You* by F.M. Busby
– *The Room* by Ray Russell
– *Dry Spell* by Bill Pronzini
– *Bohassian Learns* by William Rotsler
– *Star Bride* by Anthony Boucher
– *Latest Feature* by Maggie Nadler
– *Chief* by Henry Slesar
– *After You’ve Stood on the Log at the Center of the Universe, What Is There Left to Do?* by Grant Carrington
– *Maid to Measure* by Damon Knight
– *Eyes Do More Than See* by Isaac Asimov
– *Thang* by Martin Gardner
– *How Now Purple Cow* by Bill Pronzini
– *Revival Meeting* by Dannie Plachta
– *Prototaph* by Keith Laumer
– *The Rocket of 1955* by C.M. Kornbluth
– *Science Fiction for Telepaths* by E. Michael Blake
– *Kindergarten* by James E. Gunn
– *A Little Knowledge* by Paul Dellinger
– *A Cup of Hemlock* by Lee Killough
– *Present Perfect* by Thomas F. Monteleone
– *A Lot to Learn* by Robert T. Kurosaka
– *The Amphibious Cavalry Gap* by James E. Thompson
– *Not Counting Bridges* by Robert L. Fish
– *The Man Inside* by Bruce McAllister
– *The Mars Stone* by Paul Bond
– *Source Material* by Mildred Downey Broxon
– *The Compleat Consummators* by Alan E. Nourse
– *Examination Day* by Henry Slesar
– *The Sky’s an Oyster: The Stars Are Pearls* by David Bischoff
– *The Man Who Could Turn Back the Clock* by Ralph Milne Farley (pseudonym of Roger Sherman Hoar)
– *Patent Rights* by Daniel A. Darlington
– *Alien Cornucopia* by Walt Liebscher
– *The Last Paradox* by Edward D. Hoch
– *Course of Empire* by Richard Wilson
– *Synchronicity* by James E. Thompson
– *Sweet Dreams, Melissa* by Stephen Goldin
– *The Man on Top* by R. Bretnor
– *Rejection Slip* by K.W. MacAnn