Contents:
7 • Foreword: The Bad News and the Good • (1976) • essay by Isaac Asimov
11 • Idiot Stick • (1958) • shortstory by Damon Knight
24 • Nine Lives • (1969) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
47 • The Commuter • (1953) • shortstory by Philip K. Dick
59 • The Oath • (1960) • novelette by James Blish
77 • Takeover Bid • (1965) • novelette by John Baxter
94 • Comes Now the Power • (1966) • shortstory by Roger Zelazny
100 • Litterbug • (1969) • novelette by Tony Morphett
117 • Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1961) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
138 • A Song Before Sunset • (1976) • shortstory by David Grigg
149 • Sundance • (1969) • shortstory by Robert Silverberg
163 • The Oh in Jose • (1966) • shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss (variant of The O in José) [as by Brian Aldiss ]
172 • The Man Who Came Early • (1956) • novelette by Poul Anderson
194 • Call Him Lord • (1966) • novelette by Gordon R. Dickson
213 • The Garden of Time • (1962) • shortstory by J. G. Ballard