Contents include: The Running by Richard Posner / Lenny by Isaac Asimov / "The Land Ironclads", The Chronic Argonauts" & "The Crystal Egg" by H. G. Wells / Sunjammer by Arthur C. Clarke / Ms. Found in an Abandoned Time Machine by Robert Silverberg / The Storm by Gardner Dozois / The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / The Begum's Fortune by Jules Verne / With the Night Mail by Rudyard Kipling / Ariel by Roger Elwood / The Serpent in Eden by Poul Anderson / The Weariest River by Thomas N. Scortia / The Rescued Girls of Refugee by Anne McCaffrey / The Shinning One by Nat Schachner / My Friend Klatu by Laurence Yep / The Gentle Captive by Tom Godwin / The Last Congregation by Howard Goldsmith / Towards the Beloved City by Philip Jose Farmer / High Priest by J. F. Bone.
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.