Foreword • essay by Theodore Sturgeon Long Night of Waiting • short story by Andre Norton Teleprobe • short story by Phyllis Eisenstein Like a Diamond in the Sky • short story by Mary Catherine McKinley The Proper Study • short story by J. Hunter Holly as Joan C. Holly Natural History • short story by Barry N. Malzberg The Most Forgettable Story in the World • short story by R.A. Lafferty Unreasonable Facsimile • short story by Bob Shaw The Singing Cliffs of Faunus • short story by Miriam Bunch Earth Mother • short story by Carolyn Gloeckner Thirty-Three and One-Third • short story by Jack Dann and George Zebrowski Old Max • short story by B.J. Lytle The Trippers • short story by Barry N. Malzberg as Robin Schaeffer Any Resemblance to Magic • short story by Otto Binder as Eando Binder First Mission • novelette by William K. Carlson Epilogue: The Future of Science Fiction • essay by Audrey L. Bilker and Harvey L. Bilker
Roger Elwood was an American science fiction writer and editor, perhaps best known for having edited a large number of anthologies and collections for a variety of publishers in the early 1970s. Elwood was also the founding editor of Laser Books and, in more recent years, worked in the evangelical Christian market.