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Table of Contents:

• Preface - essay by James E. Gunn
• Introduction - essay by James E. Gunn
• Beginnings: From Frankenstein to Dorking - essay by James E. Gunn
• From "The Battle of Dorking: Reminiscences of a Volunteer" (excerpt) - (1871) - shortfiction by George Tomkyns Chesney
• A Matter of Perspective - essay by James E. Gunn
• From "Flatland" (excerpt) - (1884) - shortfiction by Edwin A. Abbott
• The Craving for Catastrophe - essay by James E. Gunn
• After London (excerpt) - (1885) - shortfiction by Richard Jefferies
• The Medium and the Message - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Doom of London - (1892) - shortstory by Robert Barr
• Fin de Siècle - essay by James E. Gunn
• A Corner in Lightning - (1898) - shortstory by George Griffith
• The Man Who Invented Tomorrow - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Country of the Blind - (1904) - novelette by H. G. Wells
• Currents in the Mainstream - essay by James E. Gunn
• As Easy as A.B.C. - (1912) - novelette by Rudyard Kipling
• MacDonough's Song - (1912) - poem by Rudyard Kipling
• The Great War and Its Aftermath - essay by James E. Gunn
• A Negligible Experiment - (1921) - shortstory by J. D. Beresford
• More Things in Heaven and Earth - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Horror of the Heights - (1913) - shortstory by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Before the Crash - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Rat - (1929) - shortstory by S. Fowler Wright
• Looking Outward - essay by James E. Gunn
• From "Star Maker" (excerpt) - (1937) - shortfiction by Olaf Stapledon
• The American Lodestone - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Great Fog - (1944) - shortstory by Gerald Heard
• The Postwar Explosion - essay by James E. Gunn
• Hobbyist - (1947) - novelette by Eric Frank Russell
• Meteors and Other Stars - essay by James E. Gunn
• Dreams Are Sacred - (1948) - novelette by Peter Phillips
• The Prolific Fifties - essay by James E. Gunn
• Made in U.S.A. - (1953) - novelette by J. T. McIntosh
• Transit of Clarke - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Star - (1955) - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
• The Day of the Wyndhams - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Emptiness of Space: The Asteroids A.D. 2194 - (1960) - shortstory by John Wyndham
• The Universe Considered as a Concentration Camp - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Voices of Time - (1960) - novelette by J. G. Ballard
• The Drowned Giant - (1964) - shortstory by J. G. Ballard
• Stand on Metaphor - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Totally Rich - (1963) - novelette by John Brunner
• New Worlds, New Waves, New Options - essay by James E. Gunn
• Mouth of Hell - (1966) - shortstory by David I. Masson
• The Discontinuous D. G. Compton - essay by James E. Gunn
• It's Smart to Have an English Address - (1967) - shortstory by D. G. Compton
• More Things in Heaven and Earth [#2] - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Muse - (1968) - shortstory by Anthony Burgess
• The Neptune of the New Wave - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Nature of the Catastrophe - (1970) - shortstory by Michael Moorcock
• The Human Side of Change - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Happiest Day of Your Life - (1970) - shortstory by Bob Shaw
• Breaking into the Club - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Power of Time - (1971) - novelette by Josephine Saxton
• New Maps and Old Waves - essay by James E. Gunn
• Mason's Life - (1972) - shortstory by Kingsley Amis
• The God Question - essay by James E. Gunn
• Settling the World - (1975) - shortstory by M. John Harrison
• Putting It All Together - essay by James E. Gunn
• Working in the Spaceship Yards - (1969) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• Appearance of Life - (1976) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• Images and Icons - essay by James E. Gunn
• An Infinite Summer - (1976) - novelette by Christopher Priest
• Alien Relations - essay by James E. Gunn
• Custom Fitting - (1976) - novelette by James White
• Sex and Fantasy - essay by James E. Gunn
• Written in Water - (1982) - shortstory by Tanith Lee
• Transcending Generalities - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Great Atlantic Swimming Race - (1986) - shortstory by Ian Watson
• The Romance of Science Fiction - essay by James E. Gunn
• And He Not Busy Being Born - (1986) - shortstory by Brian Stableford

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