Mythic patterns / Patricia Warrick -- Science fiction myths and their ambiguity / Patricia Warrick: "Goat song" / Poul Anderson -- Remarkable adventure / Philip Jose: Farmer and Beverly Friend -- "Brightside crossing" / Alan E. Nourse -- "Before Eden" / Arthur C. Clarke -- "Game of rat and dragon" / Cordwainer Smith -- Beyond reality's barriers: New dimensions / Robert Silverberg and Charles Elkins: "Common time" / James Blish -- "Shadow of space" / Philip Jose Farmer -- Aliens / Pamela Sargent and James Gunn: "Specialist" / Robert Sheckley -- "Dance of the charger and the three" / Terry Carr -- "Father-thing" / Philip K. Dick -- Scientist / L. Sprague de Camp and Thomas D. Clareson: "Scientist divides" / Donald Wandrei -- "Memorial" / Theodore Sturgeon -- "Hole man" / Larry Niven -- Machine and the robot / Isaac Asimov with selections by David Martwell: "Twilight" / John W. Campbell, Jr. -- "New father Christmas" / Brian W. Aldiss -- "Computers don't argue" / Gordon R. Dickson -- More than human?: Androids, cyborgs and others / George Zebrowski and Patricia Warrick: "Nine lives" / Ursula K. Le Guin -- "Masks" / Damon Knight -- "Sea change" / Thomas N. Scortia -- "Day million" / Frederik Pohl -- City / Theodore R. Cogwell and Ralph S. Clem -- "Billenium" / J.G. Ballard -- "A happy day in 2381" / Robert Silverberg -- Utopias and Dystopias / Frederik Pohl, Martin Harry Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander -- "New York A.D.:2660" / Hugo Gernsback -- "Coming attraction" / Fritz Leiber -- "Luckiest man in Denv" / C.M. Kornbluth -- Apocalypse / Jack Williamson and David Ketterer -- "Game of blood and dust" / Roger Zelazny -- "All the last wars at once" / George Alec Effinger.
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