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   1. * Requiem by Robert A. Heinlein
   2. The Dwindling Sphere by Williard Hawkins
   3. The Automatic Pistol by Fritz Leiber
   4. Hindsight by Jack Williamson
   5. Postpaid to Paradise by Robert Arthur
   6. * Coventry by Robert A. Heinlein
   7. Into the Darkness by Ross Rocklynne
   8. Dark Mission by Lester del Rey
   9. It by Theodore Sturgeon
  10. Vault of the Beast by A. E. van Vogt
  11. The Impossible Highway by Oscar J. Friend
  12. Quietus by Ross Rocklynne
  13. * Blowups Happen by Robert A. Heinlein
  14. Strange Playfellow by Isaac Asimov
  15. The Warrior Race by L. Sprague de Camp
  16. Farewell to the Master by Harry Bates
  17. Butyl and the Breather by Theodore Sturgeon
  18. The Exalted by L. Sprague de Camp
  19. Old Man Mulligan by P. Schuyler Miller

* The three stories by Robert A. Heinlein were not printed in this volume because arrangements for their use could not be made. Martin Greenberg and Isaac Asimov's notes for each are included where the stories would have appeared.</default_description>
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