Publisher's Synopsis
One of the greatest science fiction anthologies of all time, here is Silverberg & Greenberg's collection of classic science fiction tales -- including work by a "Who's Who" of the fantastic! Included are:
- Mellonta Tauta, by Edgar Allan Poe
- In the Year 2889, by Jules Verne and Michel Verne
- Sold to Satan, by Mark Twain
- The New Accelerator, by H. G. Wells
- Finis, by Frank Lillie Pollock
- As Easy As A.B.C., by Rudyard Kipling
- Dark Lot of One Saul, by M. P. Shiel
- R.U.R., by Karel Capek
- The Tissue-Culture King, by Julian Huxley
- The Metal Man, by Jack Williamson
- The Gostak and the Doshes, by Miles J. Breuer, M.D.
- Alas, All Thinking!, by Harry Bates
- The Mad Moon, by Stanley G. Weinbaum
- As Never Was, by P. Schuyler Miller
- Desertion, by Clifford D. Simak
- The Strange Case of John Kingman, by Murray Leinster
- Dreams Are Sacred, 1948by Peter Phillips
- Misbegotten Missionary, by Isaac Asimov (variant of Green Patches)
- Dune Roller, by Julian May
- Warm, by Robert Sheckley
- A Bad Day for Sales, by Fritz Leiber
- Man of Parts, by H. L. Gold
- The Man Who Came Early, by Poul Anderson
- The Burning of the Brain, by Cordwainer Smith
- The Men Who Murdered Mohammed, by Alfred Bester
- The Man Who Lost the Sea, by Theodore Sturgeon
- Goodlife, by Fred Saberhagen
- The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World, by Philip José Farmer
- Gehenna, by Barry N. Malzberg
- A Meeting with Medusa, by Arthur C. Clarke
- Painwise, by James Tiptree, Jr.
- Nobody's Home, by Joanna Russ
- Think Only This of Me, by Michael Kurland
- Capricorn Games, by Robert Silverberg
- "The Author of the Acacia Seeds" and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguisticsby Ursula K. Le Guin
- Travels, by Carter Scholz
- Doing Lennon, by Gregory Benford
[Previously published as The Arbor House Treasury of Science fiction Masterpieces]
