author : Robert Silverberg

Contents (possible spoilers)

• The Old Man

• New Men for Mars

• Collecting Team

• Double Dare

• The Overlord's Thumb

• Ozymandias

• Certainty

• Mind for Business

• Misfit

Contents (possible spoilers)

• The Reality Trip. 1970

• The Iron Chancellor. 1958

• The Shrines of Earth. 1957

• Black is Beautiful. 1970

• Ringing the Changes. 1970

• Translation Error. 1950

• The Shadow of Wings. 1963

• Absolutely Inflexible. 1956

• His Brother's Weeper. 1959

Contents (possible spoilers)

• How It Was When the Past Went Away. 1969

• To See the Invisible Man. 1962

• Flies. 1967

• Something Wild is Loose. 1971

• Ishmael in Love. 1970

• To the Dark Star. 1968

• The Fangs of the Trees. 1968

• Hidden Talent. 1957

• The Song the Zombie Sang. 1970

Contents (possible spoilers)

• Capricorn Games

• The Science Fiction Hall of Fame

• Ms. Found in an Abandoned Time Machine

• Breckenridge and the Continuum

• Ship-Sister, Star-Sister

• A Sea of Faces

• The Dybbuk of Mazel Tov IV

• Getting Across

Contents (possible spoilers)

• Good News from the Vatican. 1971

• Road to Nightfall. 1954

• Warm Man. 1957

• To See the Invisible Man. 1962

• The Sixth Palace. 1964

• Flies. 1967

• Hawksbill Station. 1967

• Passengers. 1967

• Sundance. 1968

• Nightwings. 1968

Contents (possible spoilers)

• Stanley G. Weinbaum. A Martian Odyssey. 1934

The first expedition to Mars finds many strange and wonderful alien creatures, including the intelligent Tweel

• John W. Campbell Jr. Twilight. 1934

• A. E. van Vogt. The Weapon Shop. 1942

• Lewis Padgett. Mimsy Were the Borogroves. 1943

• Isaac Asimov. Nightfall. 1941

• Murray Leinster. First Contact. 1945

• Robert A. Heinlein. The Roads Must Roll. 1940

• Fredric Brown. Arena. 1944

• Clifford D. Simak. Huddling Place. 1944

• Lester del Rey. Helen O'Loy. 1938

• Theodore Sturgeon. Microcosmic God. 1941

Contents (possible spoilers)

• Damon Knight. The Country of the Kind. 1956

• Fritz Leiber. Coming Attraction. 1950

• Judith Merril. That Only a Mother. 1948

• Richard Matheson. Born of Man and Woman. 1950

• Alfred Bester. Fondly Fahrenheit. 1954

• Ray Bradbury. Mars in Heaven!. 1948

• C. M. Kornbluth. The Little Black Bag. 1950

• Daniel Keyes. Flowers for Algernon. 1959

• Cordwainer Smith. Scanners Live in Vain. 1950

• Arthur C. Clarke. The Nine Billion Names of God. 1953

• Tom Godwin. The Cold Equations. 1954

• Jerome Bixby. It's a GOOD Life. 1953

• Anthony Boucher. The Quest for Saint Aquin. 1951

• James Blish. Surface Tension. 1952

• Roger Zelazny. A Rose for Ecclesiastes. 1963

Contents (possible spoilers)

• Jack Vance. Rumfuddle. 1973

• John Brunner. You'll Take the High Road. 1973

• Larry Niven. Flash Crowd. 1973

[shared world]

Contents (possible spoilers)

• Frederik Pohl. The Treasure of Chujo. 1992

• David Brin. Genji. 1992

• Poul Anderson. Language. 1992

• Gregory Benford. World Vast, World Various. 1989

The Japanese science team try to make first contact with the nomadic Chupchups, apparent remnants of a dying civilisation. But the Chupcups are hard to contact.

• Greg Bear. A Plague of Conscience. 1992

• Nancy Kress. Birthing Pool. 1992

• Poul Anderson. Design for Two Worlds. 1992

(technical appendix)

• Frederik Pohl. Muraski's World. 1992

(technical appendix)

Contents (possible spoilers)

• Ursula K. Le Guin. Old Music and the Slave Woman. 1999

• Joe Haldeman. A Separate War. 1999

• Orson Scott Card. Investment Counselor. 1999

• David Brin. Temptation. 1999

• Robert Silverberg. Getting to Know the Dragon. 1999

• Dan Simmons. Orphans of the Helix. 1999

• Nancy Kress. Sleeping Dogs. 1999

• Frederik Pohl. The Boy Who Would Live Forever. 1999

• Gregory Benford. A Hunger for the Infinite. 1999

• Anne McCaffrey. The Ship that Returned. 1999

• Greg Bear. The Way of All Ghosts. 1999