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1First published in 1973 by editor Creator/ThomasEdwardSanders, this {{Anthology}} contains seventy-two stories and poems.
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3!!Stories:
4[[index]]
5* "Literature/TheAltarAtMidnight", by Creator/CyrilMKornbluth (1952)
6* "[[Literature/AsEasyAsABC As Easy as A.B.C.]]", by Creator/RudyardKipling (1912)
7* "{{Literature/Automaton}}", by Creator/AEVanVogt (1950)
8* "Literature/BlackIsBeautiful", by Creator/RobertSilverberg (1970)
9* "Literature/ByTheWatersOfBabylon", by Creator/StephenVincentBenet (1937)
10* "Literature/CatoTheMartian", by Creator/HowardFast (1960)
11* "Literature/TheChronicArgonauts", by Creator/HGWells (1888)
12* "Literature/ContinuedOnNextRock", by Creator/RALafferty (1970)
13* "Literature/ADateToRemember", by Creator/WilliamFTemple (1949)
14* "Literature/ADiscoveryInTheWoods", by Creator/{{Graham Greene|Author}} (1963)
15* "Literature/EarthsHolocaust", by Creator/NathanielHawthorne (1844)
16* "Literature/AnEelByTheTail", by Creator/AllenKLang (1951)
17* "Literature/TheFogHorn", by Creator/RayBradbury (1951)
18* "Literature/FrancesHarkins", by Creator/RichardGoggin (1952)
19* "Literature/FreshGuy", by Creator/ECTubb (1958)
20* "Literature/TheGardenOfTime", by Creator/JGBallard (1962)
21* "Literature/TheGhostOfAnApprehension", by Creator/WalterVanTilburgClark (1949)
22* "Literature/TheGreenHillsOfEarth", by Creator/RobertAHeinlein (1947)
23* "{{Literature/Hilifter}}", by Creator/GordonRDickson (1963)
24* "Literature/InvasionFromMars", by Creator/HowardKoch (1938)
25* "Literature/ItsAGoodLife", by Creator/JeromeBixby (1953)
26* "{{Literature/Jetsam}}", by Creator/ABertramChandler (1953)
27* "Literature/TheLastMan", by Creator/MaryShelley (1826, excerpt)
28* "Literature/TheMarketInAliens", by Creator/KMODonnell (1968)
29* "Literature/MellontaTauta", by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe (1849)
30* "[[Literature/GreenPatches Misbegotten Missionary]]", by Creator/IsaacAsimov (1950)
31* "Literature/NeutronStar", by Creator/LarryNiven (1966)
32* "The Outsider", by Creator/HPLovecraft (1926)
33* "Literature/APailOfAir", by Creator/FritzLeiber (1951)
34* "Literature/PicturesDontLie", by Creator/KatherineMacLean (1951)
35* "Literature/ThePortablePhonograph", by Creator/WalterVanTilburgClark (1941)
36* "Literature/RepentHarlequinSaidTheTicktockman", by Creator/HarlanEllison (1965)
37* "Literature/TheReportOnTheBarnhouseEffect", by Creator/KurtVonnegut (1950)
38* "Literature/TheRulesOfTheRoad", by Creator/NormanSpinrad (1964)
39* "Literature/SlowSculpture", by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon (1970)
40* "Literature/TheStar", by Creator/ArthurCClarke (1955)
41* "Literature/StarBright", by Creator/MarkClifton (1952)
42* "Literature/ThisStarShallBeFree", by Creator/MurrayLeinster (1949)
43* "Literature/SredniVashtar", by {{Creator/Saki}} (1910)
44* "Literature/StreetOfDreamsFeetOfClay", by Creator/RobertSheckley (1967)
45* "{{Literature/Sundance}}", by Creator/RobertSilverberg (1969)
46* "Literature/TheTartarusOfMaids", by Creator/HermanMelville (1855)
47* "Literature/ThatOnlyAMother", by Creator/JudithMerril (1948)
48* "Literature/TheWaveries", by Creator/FredricBrown (1945)
49* "Literature/WhatToDoUntilTheAnalystComes", by Creator/FrederikPohl (1956)
50* "Literature/WhenAristotleFailsTryScienceFiction", by Creator/IsaacAsimov (1971)
51[[/index]]
52
53!!Poems:
54[[index]]
55* "{{Literature/Apollo}}", by Creator/JamesDickey (1969)
56* "Literature/TheComing", by Creator/APoulinJr (1963)
57* "Literature/TheCompass", by Creator/CidCorman (1967)
58* "[[Literature/EMC2 E=mc²]]", by Creator/MorrisBishop (1946)
59* "Literature/EarthWillNotLetGo", by Creator/MaySwenson (1970)
60* "Literature/TheFlightOfApollo", by Creator/StanleyKunitz (1969)
61* "Literature/TheGreatBear", by Creator/JohnHollander (1958)
62* "Literature/HeelAndToeToTheEnd", by Creator/WilliamCarlosWilliams (1962)
63* "Literature/LetTheTrees", by Creator/PhilipBooth (1969)
64* "Literature/AManSaidToTheUniverse", by Creator/StephenCrane
65* "Literature/TheMisfit", by Creator/ARAmmons (1965)
66* "Literature/MoonLanding", by Creator/WHAuden (1969)
67* "Literature/NightmareNumberThree", by Creator/StephenVincentBenet (1942)
68* "Literature/TheOuterBecomingInner", by Creator/WilliamBronk (1949)
69* "[[Literature/PityThisBusyMonsterManunkind pity this busy monster, manunkind]]", by Creator/EECummings (1944)
70* "Literature/PlanetaryExchange", by Creator/AmiriBaraka (1969)
71* "Literature/PoemRocket", by Creator/AllenGinsberg (1960)
72* "Literature/SixHaiku", by Creator/KarenAnderson (1962)
73* "{{Literature/Science}}", by Creator/RobinsonJeffers (1925)
74* "Science Fiction", by Creator/KingsleyAmis (1960)
75* "Literature/SonnetToScience", by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe (1829)
76* "Literature/SpaceForMartinGreen", by Creator/XJKennedy
77* "Literature/StarGazePoem", by Creator/SandfordLyne (1969)
78* "Literature/ToTheMoon1969", by Creator/BabetteDeutsch
79* "Literature/TheUnknownCitizen", by Creator/WHAuden (1939)
80* "Literature/WhenIHeardTheLearndAstronomer", by Creator/WaltWhitman (1865)
81[[/index]]
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83!!Tropes appearing in this work:
84* AdaptationDistillation: "Literature/TheLastMan", by Creator/MaryShelley, is only present as an excerpt of the full story.
85* {{Doorstopper}}: This {{Anthology}} contains over seventy works, including nine {{Novelette}}s, totaling over 600 pages.
86* PenName:
87** "Literature/TheMarketInAliens" is credited to [[Creator/KMODonnell K. M. O'Donnell]], a false name used by Creator/BarryNMalzberg.
88** "Literature/SpaceForMartinGreen" is credited to Creator/XJKennedy because Joseph Kennedy didn't want to be mistaken for a member of the Kennedy family.
89* {{Tagline}}: "An introduction to literature through fantasy and science fiction"

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