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