Volume 2: From Wells To Heinlein
(Signet, 1979; Scarecrow Press, September, 2002)
Contents:
- "The New Accelerator", by H. G. Wells
- "The Machine Stops", by E. M. Forster
- excerpt from The Chessmen of Mars (Signet edition) or Under the Moons of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- "The People of the Pit" (Signet edition) or "The Moon Pool", by A. Merritt
- "The Red One", by Jack London
- "Dagon", by H. P. Lovecraft
- "The Tissue-Culture King", by Julian Huxley
- "The Revolt of the Pedestrians", by David H. Keller, M.D.
- excerpt from Last and First Men, by Olaf Stapledon
- excerpt from Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
- "A Martian Odyssey", by Stanley G. Weinbaum
- "Twilight", by John W. Campbell
- "Proxima Centauri", by Murray Leinster
- "What's It Like Out There?" by Edmond Hamilton
- "With Folded Hands", by Jack Williamson
- "Hyperpilosity", by L. Sprague de Camp
- "The Faithful", by Lester del Rey
- "Black Destroyer", by A. E. van Vogt
- "Nightfall", by Isaac Asimov
- "Requiem", by Robert A. Heinlein
- A chronology of Science Fiction
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