Search Worlds Without End

A collection of 15 science fiction stories that introduce the reader to the variety of themes and subjects that the genre can offer.

Table of Contents:

• 9 - Introduction (The Worlds of Science Fiction) - essay by Robert P. Mills
• 13 - The First Men - novelette by Howard Fast
• 49 - A Work of Art - short story by James Blish
• 71 - Evening Primrose - short story by John Collier
• 87 - Memento Homo - short story by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• 109 - A Miracle of Rare Device - short story by Ray Bradbury
• 127 - "All You Zombies..." - short story by Robert A. Heinlein
• 143 - Faq' - short story by George P. Elliott
• 157 - Babel II - novelette by Damon Knight
• 187 - A Saucer of Loneliness - short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 205 - Night Piece - short story by Poul Anderson
• 225 - Now Let Us Sleep - short story by Avram Davidson
• 241 - The Strange Girl - short story by Mark Van Doren
• 249 - The Quest for Saint Aquin - novelette by Anthony Boucher
• 273 - The War in the Air - short story by R. V. Cassill
• 293 - The Ugly Little Boy - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• 340 - Epilogue: My Private World of Science Fiction - essay by Alfred Bester

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1960) - essay by Robert P. Mills
• Flowers for Algernon - (1959) - novelette by Daniel Keyes
• Me - (1959) - poem by Hilbert Schenck
• A Different Purpose - (1958) - shortfiction by Kem Bennett
• A Vampire's Saga - (1959) - poem by Norman Belkin
• Ralph Wollstonecraft Hedge: A Memoir - (1959) - shortstory by Ron Goulart
• Sportsman's Difficulty - (1959) - poem by Doris Pitkin Buck
• "All You Zombies..." - (1959) - shortstory by Robert A. Heinlein
• An Expostulation - (1959) - poem by C. S. Lewis
• Casey Agonistes - (1958) - shortstory by Richard McKenna
• Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: XII - (1959) - shortstory by Reginald Bretnor
• Eastward Ho! - (1958) - shortstory by William Tenn
• Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: XIV - (1959) - shortstory by Reginald Bretnor
• Soul Mate - (1959) - shortstory by Lee Sutton
• Call Me Mister - (1959) - poem by Anthony Brode
• What Rough Beast? - (1959) - novelette by Damon Knight
• Classical Query Composed While Shampooing - (1959) - poem by Doris Pitkin Buck
• Far from Home - (1958) - shortstory by Walter Tevis
• Space Burial - (1959) - poem by Brian W. Aldiss
• Invasion of the Planet of Love - (1959) - shortstory by George P. Elliott
• Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: X - (1959) - shortstory by Reginald Bretnor
• Dagon - (1959) - shortstory by Avram Davidson
• Pact - (1959) - shortstory by Poul Anderson
• To Give Them Beauty for Ashes - (1959) - poem by Winona McClintic
• No Matter Where You Go - (1959) - shortstory by Joel Townsley Rogers
• Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: XI - (1959) - shortstory by Reginald Bretnor
• The Willow Tree - (1959) - shortstory by Jane Rice
• Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: XIII - (1959) - shortfiction by Reginald Bretnor
• The Pi Man - (1959) - shortstory by Alfred Bester
• The Man Who Lost the Sea - (1959) - shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon
• Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: XV - (1959) - shortstory by Reginald Bretnor

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Robert P. Mills
• Nikita Eisenhower Jones - (1960) - novelette by Robert F. Young
• Who Dreams of Ivy - (1960) - shortstory by Will Mohler
• Mine Own Ways - (1960) - shortstory by Richard McKenna
• The Rainbow Gold - (1959) - shortstory by Jane Rice
• Crazy Maro - (1960) - novelette by Daniel Keyes
• Something - (1960) - shortstory by Allen Drury
• It's a Great Big Wonderful Universe - (1960) - shortstory by Vance Aandahl
• Man Overboard - (1960) - novelette by John Collier
• The Blind Pilot - (1959) - shortstory by Nathalie Henneberg
• A Divvil With the Women - (1960) - shortstory by Eric Frank Russell
• The Martyr - (1960) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• Double, Double, Toil and Trouble - (1960) - shortstory by Holley Cantine
• Après Nous - (1960) - shortstory by Avram Davidson
• Interbalance - (1960) - shortstory by Katherine MacLean
• Infinity - (1960) - poem by Rosser Reeves
• The Replacement - (1960) - shortstory by Robert Murray
• The Fellow Who Married the Maxill Girl - (1960) - novelette by Ward Moore

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1962) - essay by Robert P. Mills
• When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer - (1865) - poem by Walt Whitman
• The Sources of the Nile - (1961) - novelette by Avram Davidson
• Somebody to Play With - (1961) - shortstory by Jay Williams
• Softly While You're Sleeping - (1961) - shortfiction by Evelyn E. Smith
• The Machine That Won the War - [Multivac] - (1961) - shortstory by Isaac Asimov
• Go for Baroque - (1961) - shortstory by Jody Scott
• Time Lag - (1961) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• George - (1961) - shortstory by John Anthony West
• Shotgun Cure - (1961) - shortstory by Clifford D. Simak
• The One Who Returns - (1961) - shortstory by John Berry
• The Captivity - (1961) - shortstory by Charles G. Finney
• Alpha Ralpha Boulevard - (1961) - novelette by Cordwainer Smith
• Effigy - (1961) - poem by Rosser Reeves
• E=MC² - (1961) - poem by Rosser Reeves
• Harrison Bergeron - (1961) - shortstory by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• The Haunted Village - (1961) - novelette by Gordon R. Dickson

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (A Decade of Fantasy and Science Fiction) - essay by Robert P. Mills
• The Martian Shop - (1959) - novelette by Howard Fast
• Walk Like a Mountain - [John the Balladeer] - (1955) - shortstory by Manly Wade Wellman
• Men of Iron - (1940) - shortstory by Guy Endore
• Rabbits to the Moon - (1959) - shortstory by Raymond E. Banks
• The Certificate - (1959) - shortstory by Avram Davidson
• The Sealman - (1913) - shortstory by John Masefield
• The Sky People - [Maurai] - (1959) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• The Causes - (1952) - shortstory by Margaret St. Clair [as by Idris Seabright ]
• The Hypnoglyph - (1953) - shortstory by John Ciardi [as by John Anthony ]
• A Tale of the Thirteenth Floor - (1955) - poem by Ogden Nash
• Spud and Cochise - (1936) - novelette by Oliver La Farge
• Unto the Fourth Generation - (1959) - shortstory by Isaac Asimov
• Jordan - [The People] - (1959) - novelette by Zenna Henderson
• Will You Wait? - (1959) - shortstory by Alfred Bester
• Proof Positive - (1947) - shortstory by Graham Greene
• Shock Treatment - (1954) - novelette by J. Francis McComas
• Gandolphus - [Fergus O'Breen] - (1952) - shortstory by Anthony Boucher
• The Last Shall Be First - (1958) - shortstory by Robert P. Mills
• A Trick or Two - (1957) - shortstory by John Novotny
• Lot's Daughter - [David Jimmon] - (1954) - novelette by Ward Moore
• Saturnian Celia - (1774) - essay by Horace Walpole
• Fear Is a Business - (1956) - shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon
• Meeting of Relations - (1941) - shortstory by John Collier
• First Lesson - (1956) - shortstory by Mildred Clingerman
• To Fell a Tree - (1959) - novelette by Robert F. Young

Table of Contents:

• F&SF and I - (1970) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 5,271,009 - (1954) - novelette by Alfred Bester
• Free Dirt - (1955) - shortstory by Charles Beaumont
• Becalmed in Hell - (1965) - shortstory by Larry Niven
• Private - Keep Out! - (1949) - shortstory by Philip MacDonald
• Gladys's Gregory - (1963) - shortstory by John Anthony West
• Feminine Intuition - (1969) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• That Hell-Bound Train - (1958) - shortstory by Robert Bloch
• A Touch of Strange - (1958) - shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon
• Gratitude Guaranteed - (1953) - novelette by Kris Neville and Reginald Bretnor
• Prime-Time Teaser - (1968) - shortstory by Bruce McAllister
• As Long as You're Here - (1963) - shortstory by Will Stanton
• Sweet Helen - (1969) - shortstory by Charles W. Runyon
• A Final Sceptre, a Lasting Crown - (1969) - shortstory by Ray Bradbury (variant of Henry the Ninth)
• Yes, We Have No Ritchard - (1960) - shortstory by Bruce Jay Friedman
• We Can Remember It for You Wholesale - (1966) - novelette by Philip K. Dick
• 237 Talking Statues, Etc. - (1963) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
• M-1 - (1970) - shortstory by Gahan Wilson
• The Silly Season - (1950) - shortstory by C. M. Kornbluth
• The Holiday Man - (1957) - shortstory by Richard Matheson
• Something Else - (1965) - shortstory by Robert J. Tilley
• Afterword - (1970) - essay by Edward L. Ferman