Contents
Illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon accompany each short story.
- Foreword 1 - The Second Revolution by Isaac Asimov
- Foreword 2 - Harlan and I by Isaac Asimov
- Thirty-Two Soothsayers (introduction) by Harlan Ellison
- Evensong by Lester del Rey. This is described by its author as an allegory. It details the capture of a being, identified at the end of the story as God, by Man, which has usurped God's power.
- Flies by Robert Silverberg. It was inspired by a quote from King Lear: "As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport."
- The Day After the Day the Martians Came by Frederik Pohl
- Riders of the Purple Wage by Philip José Farmer (Hugo Award for best novella)
- The Malley System by Miriam Allen deFord
- A Toy for Juliette by Robert Bloch
- The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World by Harlan Ellison
- The Night That All Time Broke Out by Brian W. Aldiss
- The Man Who Went to the Moon — Twice by Howard Rodman
- Faith of Our Fathers by Philip K. Dick
- The Jigsaw Man by Larry Niven
- Gonna Roll the Bones by Fritz Leiber (Hugo and Nebula awards for Best Novelette)
- Lord Randy, My Son by Joe L. Hensley
- Eutopia by Poul Anderson
- Incident in Moderan and The Escaping by David R. Bunch
- The Doll-House by James Cross (pseudonym)
- Sex and/or Mr. Morrison by Carol Emshwiller
- Shall the Dust Praise Thee? by Damon Knight
- If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister? by Theodore Sturgeon
- What Happened to Auguste Clarot? by Larry Eisenberg
- Ersatz by Henry Slesar
- Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird by Sonya Dorman
- The Happy Breed by John Sladek
- Encounter with a Hick by Jonathan Brand
- From the Government Printing Office by Kris Neville
- Land of the Great Horses by R. A. Lafferty
- The Recognition by J. G. Ballard
- Judas by John Brunner
- Test to Destruction by Keith Laumer
- Carcinoma Angels by Norman Spinrad
- Auto-da-Fé by Roger Zelazny
- Aye, and Gomorrah by Samuel R. Delany (Nebula Award for best short story, 1967)
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