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Essays by noted science-fiction writers and critics on the nine major themes of the genre are accompanied by representative, exemplary stories.

Table of Contents:

• ix - Prefatory Comments (Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology) - (1978) - essay by Frederik Pohl
• xi - Prefatory Comments (Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology) - (1978) - essay by Thomas D. Clareson
• xv - Introduction: Mythic Patterns - (1978) - essay by Patricia S. Warrick
• 1 - Science Fiction Myths and Their Ambiguity - (1978) - essay by Patricia S. Warrick
• 9 - Goat Song - (1972) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• 39 - The Remarkable Adventure - (1978) - essay by Philip José Farmer and Beverly Friend
• 49 - Brightside Crossing - (1956) - novelette by Alan E. Nourse
• 67 - Before Eden - (1961) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 77 - The Game of Rat and Dragon - [The Instrumentality of Mankind] - (1955) - short story by Cordwainer Smith
• 92 - Beyond Reality's Barriers: New Dimensions - (1978) - essay by Charles L. Elkins and Robert Silverberg
• 101 - Common Time - (1953) - short story by James Blish
• 120 - The Shadow of Space - (1967) - novelette by Philip José Farmer?
• 146 - Aliens - (1978) - essay by James E. Gunn and Pamela Sargent
• 157 - Specialist - (1953) - short story by Robert Sheckley
• 171 - The Dance of the Changer and the Three - (1968) - short story by Terry Carr
• 185 - The Father-Thing - (1954) - short story by Philip K. Dick
• 197 - The Scientist - (1978) - essay by Thomas D. Clareson and L. Sprague de Camp
• 206 - A Scientist Divides - (1934) - short story by Donald Wandrei
• 219 - Memorial - (1946) - short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 231 - The Hole Man - (1974) - short story by Larry Niven
• 244 - The Machine and the Robot - (1978) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 254 - Twilight - [Twilight - 1] - (1934) - novelette by John W. Campbell, Jr.
• 273 - The New Father Christmas - (1958) - short story by Brian W. Aldiss
• 278 - Computers Don't Argue - (1965) - short story by Gordon R. Dickson
• 294 - More Than Human?: Androids, Cyborgs, and Others - (1978) - essay by Patricia S. Warrick and George Zebrowski
• 307 - Nine Lives - (1969) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 331 - Masks - (1968) - short story by Damon Knight
• 342 - Sea Change - (1956) - short story by Thomas N. Scortia
• 354 - Day Million - (1966) - short story by Frederik Pohl
• 359 - The City - (1978) - essay by Ralph S. Clem and Theodore R. Cogswell
• 365 - Billennium - (1961) - short story by J. G. Ballard
• 379 - A Happy Day in 2381 - [Urban Monad] - (1970) - short story by Robert Silverberg
• 393 - Utopias and Dystopias - (1978) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander and Frederik Pohl
• 401 - New York A.D. 2660 (Excerpt) - (1911) - short fiction by Hugo Gernsback
• 412 - Coming Attraction - (1950) - short story by Fritz Leiber
• 424 - The Luckiest Man in Denv - (1952) - short story by C. M. Kornbluth
• 435 - Apocalypse - (1978) - essay by David Ketterer and Jack Williamson
• 441 - The Game of Blood and Dust - (1975) - short story by Roger Zelazny
• 445 - All the Last Wars at Once - (1971) - short story by George Alec Effinger
• 459 - Notes on the Contributors (Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology) - (1978) - essay by uncredited
• 469 - Index (Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology) - (1978) - essay by uncredited

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