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Table of Contents:

• Preface - essay by James E. Gunn
• Introduction - essay by James E. Gunn
• France - essay by James E. Gunn
• Exploring Worlds Known and Unknown - essay by James E. Gunn
• Journey to the Center of the Earth (excerpt) - (1998) - shortfiction by Jules Verne
• Visualizing the Future - essay by James E. Gunn
• The War of the Twentieth Century - shortstory by Albert Robida (trans. of La Guerre au vingtième siècle 1887)
• Quest for the Right Stuff - essay by James E. Gunn
• Another World - (1962) - novelette by J. H. Rosny aîné (trans. of Un autre monde 1895)
• The Short, Happy Life of a Surreal 'Pataphysician - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Dead Fish - (1955) - shortstory by Boris Vian (trans. of Les Poissons Morts 1943)
• An Alien Behind the Wine Bottle - essay by James E. Gunn
• Heavier Than Sleep - (1979) - shortstory by Philippe Curval (trans. of Plus Lourd Que le Sommeil)
• The Temptations of the SF Polymath - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Valley of the Echoes - (1998) - shortstory by Gérard Klein (trans. of La vallée des échos 1959)
• The French Voice of North America - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Knot - (1993) - shortstory by Élisabeth Vonarburg (trans. of Le noeud 1980)
• Germany - essay by James E. Gunn
• Creating a Genre - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Sandman - (1943) - novelette by E. T. A. Hoffmann (trans. of Der Sandmann 1816)
• The Father of German Science Fiction - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Universal Library - (1958) - shortstory by Kurd Lasswitz (trans. of Die Universalbibliothek 1904)
• The Influence of Literature - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Hunter Gracchus - (1946) - shortstory by Franz Kafka (trans. of Der Jäger Gracchus 1931)
• The Austrian Connection - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Building - (1998) - shortstory by Herbert W. Franke (trans. of Das Gebäude 1960)
• The Power of the Press - essay by James E. Gunn
• Loitering at Death's Door - (1991) - novelette by Wolfgang Jeschke (trans. of Nekromanteion 1985)
• The Meaning of Walls - essay by James E. Gunn
• Ikaros - shortstory by Erik Simon (trans. of Wissenswertes über den Planeten Ikaros 1976)
• Scandinavia and Finland - essay by James E. Gunn
• Experiment in Denmark - essay by James E. Gunn
• Mnemsyne's Children - (1984) - shortstory by Svend Åge Madsen
• Fantastic Sweden - essay by James E. Gunn
• Time Everlasting - (1986) - shortstory by Sam Lundwall
• Eastern Europe - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Man Who Invented the "Robot" - essay by James E. Gunn
• R. U. R. Epilogue - (1921) - shortstory by Karel Capek
• The Polish Master - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Hunt - [Pilot Pirx (Pirx the Pilot)] - (1977) - novelette by Stanislaw Lem (trans. of Polowanie 1965)
• Medical Report - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Divided Carla - (1986) - novelette by Josef Nesvadba (trans. of Rozštepená Karla 1985)
• Political Writing - essay by James E. Gunn
• That Invincible Human Spirit, Or, The Golden Ships - shortstory by Alexandr Kramer
• The Romanian Exception - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Neuhof Treaty - (unknown) - shortstory by Ovid S. Crohmalniceanu
• Russia - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Brothers Strugatski - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Strangers - novelette by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky (trans. of ????? 1958)
• Adventure and Science Fiction - essay by James E. Gunn
• Share It With Me - (1979) - shortstory by Kir Bulychev
• Italy - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Everyday and the Fantastic - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Time Machine - (1954) - shortstory by Dino Buzzati
• Surprising Realms and Forbidden Kingdoms - essay by James E. Gunn
• Cancerqueen - (1950) - novelette by Tommaso Landolfi
• Fables for Our Time - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Spiral - (1968) - shortstory by Italo Calvino (trans. of La spirale 1965)
• Spain and Latin America - essay by James E. Gunn
• Here There Be Tygers - (1979) - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Alabaster Garden - (1979) - shortstory by Teresa Inglés (trans. of El Jardin de Alabastro 1977)
• The Magician of Magic Realism - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Babylon Lottery - (1959) - shortstory by Jorge Luís Borges (trans. of La lotería en Babilonia 1941)
• Miracles in Colombia - essay by James E. Gunn
• Blacaman the Good, Vendor of Miracles - (1971) - shortstory by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (trans. of Blacaman el Bueno, vendedor de milagros)
• The Past, the Present, and the Future - essay by James E. Gunn
• Chac-Mool - (1973) - shortstory by Carlos Fuentes
• India - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Marathi Experience - essay by James E. Gunn
• Einstein the Second - (1989) - shortstory by Laxman Londhe
• China - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Chinese Pioneer - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Mirror Image of the Earth - (1986) - shortstory by Zheng Wenguang
• The Professional Writer in China - essay by James E. Gunn
• Corrosion - (1981) - novelette by Ye Yonglie (trans. of Fushi)
• Japan - essay by James E. Gunn
• Author in the Dunes - essay by James E. Gunn
• Beyond the Curve - (1966) - novelette by Kobo Abe
• The Japanese Robert Heinlein - essay by James E. Gunn
• Take Your Choice - (1987) - shortstory by Sakyo Komatsu
• From Western Trash to Japanese Origami - essay by James E. Gunn
• The Legend of the Paper Spaceship - (1978) - novelette by Tetsu Yano
• Appendix: US SF and Us - essay by Élisabeth Vonarburg

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