The Cold Equations, by Tom Godwin, copyright © 1954 by Street & Smith Publications, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the author's agents, Scott Meredith Literary Agency, Inc.
Fondly Fahrenheit, by Alfred Bester, copyright © 1954 by Fantasy House, Inc.
Reprinted by permission of the author and his agent, Robert p. Mills.
The Country of the Kind, by Damon Knight, copyright © 1955 by Fantasy House, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the author and his agent, Robert P. Mills.
Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes, copyright © 1959 by Mercury Press, Inc.
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A Rose for Ecclesiastes, by Roger Zelazny, copyright © 1963 by Mercury Press, Inc.
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CONTENTS
Introduction: Robert Silverberg
A MARTIAN ODYSSEY,
Stanley G. Weinbaum
TWILIGHT,
John W. Campbell
HELEN O'LOY,
Lester del Rey
THE ROADS MUST ROLL,
Robert A. Heinlein
MICROCOSMIC GOD,
Theodore Sturgeon
NIGHTFALL, Isaac
Asimov
THE WEAPON SHOP,
A. E. van Vogt
MIMSY WERE THE BOROGOVES,
Lewis Padgett
HUDDLING PLACE,
Clifford D. Simak
ARENA, Fredric
Brown
FIRST CONTACT,
Murray Leinster
THAT ONLY A MOTHER,
Judith Merril
SCANNERS LIVE IN VAIN,
Cordwainer Smith
MARS IS HEAVEN!,
Ray Bradbury
THE LITTLE BLACK BAG,
C. M. Kombluth
BORN OF MAN AND WOMAN,
Richard Matheson
COMING ATTRACTION,
Fritz Leiber
THE QUEST FOR SAINT AQUIN,
Anthony Boucher
SURFACE TENSION,
James Blish
THE NINE BILLION NAMES OF GOD,