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First published in 1973 by editor Thomas Edward Sanders, this Anthology contains seventy-two stories and poems.

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Stories:

• "The Altar At Midnight", by Cyril M. Kornbluth (1952)
• "As Easy as A.B.C.", by Rudyard Kipling (1912)
• "Automaton", by A.E. van Vogt (1950)
• "Black Is Beautiful", by Robert Silverberg (1970)
• "By the Waters of Babylon", by Stephen Vincent Benet (1937)
• "Cato The Martian", by Howard Fast (1960)
• "The Chronic Argonauts", by H. G. Wells (1888)
• "Continued On Next Rock", by R. A. Lafferty (1970)
• "A Date To Remember", by William F Temple (1949)
• "A Discovery In The Woods", by Graham Greene (1963)
• "Earths Holocaust", by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1844)
• "An Eel By The Tail", by Allen K Lang (1951)
• "The Fog Horn", by Ray Bradbury (1951)
• "Frances Harkins", by Richard Goggin (1952)
• "Fresh Guy", by EC Tubb (1958)
• "The Garden Of Time", by JG Ballard (1962)
• "The Ghost Of An Apprehension", by Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1949)
• "The Green Hills of Earth", by Robert A. Heinlein (1947)
• "Hilifter", by Gordon R. Dickson (1963)
• "Invasion From Mars", by Howard Koch (1938)
• "It's a Good Life", by Jerome Bixby (1953)
• "Jetsam", by A. Bertram Chandler (1953)
• "The Last Man", by Mary Shelley (1826, excerpt)
• "The Market In Aliens", by KMO Donnell (1968)
• "Mellonta Tauta", by Edgar Allan Poe (1849)
• "Misbegotten Missionary", by Isaac Asimov (1950)
• "Neutron Star", by Larry Niven (1966)
• "The Outsider", by H. P. Lovecraft (1926)
• "A Pail Of Air", by Fritz Leiber (1951)
• "Pictures Dont Lie", by Katherine Mac Lean (1951)
• "The Portable Phonograph", by Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1941)
• ""Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman", by Harlan Ellison (1965)
• "The Report On The Barnhouse Effect", by Kurt Vonnegut (1950)
• "The Rules Of The Road", by Norman Spinrad (1964)
• "Slow Sculpture", by Theodore Sturgeon (1970)
• "The Star", by Arthur C. Clarke (1955)
• "Star Bright", by Mark Clifton (1952)
• "This Star Shall Be Free", by Murray Leinster (1949)
• "Sredni Vashtar", by Saki (1910)
• "Street Of Dreams Feet Of Clay", by Robert Sheckley (1967)
• "Sundance", by Robert Silverberg (1969)
• "The Tartarus Of Maids", by Herman Melville (1855)
• "That Only A Mother", by Judith Merril (1948)
• "The Waveries", by Fredric Brown (1945)
• "What To Do Until The Analyst Comes", by Frederik Pohl (1956)
• "When Aristotle Fails Try Science Fiction", by Isaac Asimov (1971)

Poems:

• "Apollo", by James Dickey (1969)
• "The Coming", by A Poulin Jr (1963)
• "The Compass", by Cid Corman (1967)
• "E=mc²", by Morris Bishop (1946)
• "Earth Will Not Let Go", by May Swenson (1970)
• "The Flight Of Apollo", by Stanley Kunitz (1969)
• "The Great Bear", by John Hollander (1958)
• "Heel And Toe To The End", by William Carlos Williams (1962)
• "Let The Trees", by Philip Booth (1969)
• "A Man Said To The Universe", by Stephen Crane
• "The Misfit", by AR Ammons (1965)
• "Moon Landing", by W. H. Auden (1969)
• "Nightmare Number Three", by Stephen Vincent Benet (1942)
• "The Outer Becoming Inner", by William Bronk (1949)
• "pity this busy monster, manunkind", by E. E. Cummings (1944)
• "Planetary Exchange", by Amiri Baraka (1969)
• "Poem Rocket", by Allen Ginsberg (1960)
• "Six Haiku", by Karen Anderson (1962)
• "Science", by Robinson Jeffers (1925)
• "Science Fiction", by Kingsley Amis (1960)
• "Sonnet To Science", by Edgar Allan Poe (1829)
• "Space For Martin Green", by XJ Kennedy
• "Star Gaze Poem", by Sandford Lyne (1969)
• "To The Moon 1969", by Babette Deutsch
• "The Unknown Citizen", by W. H. Auden (1939)
• "When I Heard The Learnd Astronomer", by Walt Whitman (1865)

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Tropes appearing in this work:

• Adaptation Distillation: "The Last Man", by Mary Shelley, is only present as an excerpt of the full story.
• Doorstopper: This Anthology contains over seventy works, including nine Novelettes, totaling over 600 pages.
• Pen Name:
  • "The Market In Aliens" is credited to K. M. O'Donnell, a false name used by Barry N Malzberg.
  • "Space For Martin Green" is credited to XJ Kennedy because Joseph Kennedy didn't want to be mistaken for a member of the Kennedy family.
• Tagline: "An introduction to literature through fantasy and science fiction"

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