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Collects a variety of humorous science fiction stories, poems, and cartoons by authors and cartoonists including Gahan Wilson, Robert Sheckley, and Russell Baker.

Table of Contents:

• xv - Introduction (Laughing Space) - [Asimov's Essays: Others' Work] - (1982) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 3 - A Fuller Explanation of Original Sin - (1982) - poem by Isaac Asimov and Janet Asimov [as by Isaac Asimov and Janet O. Jeppson]
• 5 - Et Tu - (1980) - poem by John Stallings
• 6 - Creation - (1970) - poem by L. Sprague de Camp
• 8 - Stag Night, Paleolithic - (1948) - poem by Ogden Nash
• 9 - An Epicurean Fragment - (1933) - poem by Robert Hillyer
• 15 - Spaced Out - (1975) - short story by Russell Baker
• 17 - The Coffin Cure - (1957) - short story by Alan E. Nourse
• 30 - Silenzia - (1953) - short story by Alan Nelson
• 41 - The Agony of Defeat - (1978) - short story by Jack C. Haldeman, II
• 47 - Epitaph on Rigel XII - (1977) - poem by Sherwood Springer
• 47 - Epitaph on Ceres - (1977) - poem by Sherwood Springer
• 48 - The Snowball Effect - (1952) - short story by Katherine MacLean
• 59 - Pâté de Foie Gras - (1956) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• 73 - The Available Data on the Worp Reaction - (1953) - short story by Lion Miller
• 77 - Imaginary Numbers in a Real Garden - (1965) - poem by Gerald Jonas
• 78 - The Mathenauts - (1964) - short story by Norman Kagan
• 90 - Coffee Break - (1968) - short story by D. F. Jones
• 100 - Putzi - (1935) - short story by Ludwig Bemelmans
• 105 - All Things Come to Those Who Weight - (1980) - short story by Robert Grossbach
• 111 - Derm Fool - (1940) - short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 123 - The Heart on the Other Side - (1962) - short story by George Gamow
• 130 - Blackmail - (1967) - short story by Fred Hoyle
• 134 - A Slight Miscalculation - (1971) - short story by Ben Bova
• 142 - A Subway Named Mobius - (1950) - short story by A. J. Deutsch
• 156 - A Sinister Metamorphosis - (1965) - short story by Russell Baker
• 158 - Something Up There Likes Me - (1973) - short story by Alfred Bester
• 177 - A Prize for Edie - (1961) - short story by J. F. Bone
• 181 - Isaac Asimov's "The Caves of Steel" - [Parodies Tossed] - (1980) - poem by Randall Garrett (variant of Parodies Tossed: Isaac Asimov's "The Caves of Steel" 1956)
• 189 - Neptune - (1977) - poem by Sansoucy Kathenor [as by Sansoucy North]
• 190 - Pluto - (1977) - poem by Sansoucy Kathenor [as by Sansoucy North]
• 191 - Jury-Rig - (1957) - short story by Avram Davidson
• 200 - Protection - (1956) - short story by Robert Sheckley
• 209 - The Self-Priming Solid-State Electronic Chicken - (1970) - short story by Jon Lucas (variant of The Self-Priming, Solid-State Electronic Chicken)
• 222 - The Night He Cried - (1953) - short story by Fritz Leiber
• 228 - The Big Pat Boom - (1963) - short story by Damon Knight
• 234 - The Adventure of the Solitary Engineer - (1979) - short story by John M. Ford
• 244 - Report on "Grand Central Terminal" - (1952) - short story by Leo Szilard
• 249 - Ad Astra, Al - (1979) - poem by Mary W. Stanton
• 250 - They'll Do It Every Time - (1978) - short story by Cam Thornley
• 252 - No Homelike Place - (1979) - short story by Dian Girard (variant of No Home-Like Place)
• 257 - Simworthy's Circus - (1950) - short story by Larry T. Shaw
• 268 - A Growing Concern - (1978) - short story by Arnie Bateman
• 269 - Cartoon: "It's me!" - (1978) - interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 270 - Cartoon: "We've no idea what it is, but it makes a darling planter!" - (1978) - interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 271 - Cartoon: "Oh, oh!" - (1979) - interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 272 - The Vilbar Party - (1955) - short story by Evelyn E. Smith
• 280 - A Pestilence of Psychoanalysts - [Pshrinks Anonymous] - (1980) - short story by Janet Asimov [as by J. O. Jeppson]
• 286 - Cartoon: "It goes this way, stupid!" - (1977) - interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 287 - Cartoon: "It's that bug that's been going around town." - (1977) - interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 288 - Death of a Foy - (1980) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• 291 - The One Thing Lacking - (1982) - poem by Isaac Asimov
• 293 - The Merchant of Stratford - (1979) - short story by Frank Ramirez
• 301 - The Wheel of Time - (1950) - short story by Robert Arthur
• 315 - Quit Zoomin' Those Hands Through the Air - (1951) - short story by Jack Finney
• 327 - The Adventure of the Global Traveler or: The Global Consequences of How the Reichenbach Falls into the Wells of Iniquitie - (1978) - short story by Anne Lear
• 334 - Pebble in Time - (1970) - short story by Avram Davidson and Cynthia Goldstone
• 338 - Ahead of the Joneses - (1979) - short story by Al Sarrantonio
• 341 - The Pinch Hitters - [Sandor Courane] - (1979) - short story by George Alec Effinger (variant of The Pinch-Hitters)
• 350 - Swift Completion - (1979) - poem by Brad Cahoon
• 357 - A Skald's Lament - (1955) - poem by L. Sprague de Camp
• 358 - The Stunning Science Fiction Caper - (1957) - short story by Thomas N. Scortia [as by Gerald Macdow]
• 361 - I, Claude - [Claude Adams] - (1956) - short story by Charles Beaumont and Chad Oliver
• 374 - Out of Control - (1970) - short story by Raylyn Moore
• 384 - Slush - (1979) - short story by K. J. Snow
• 390 - An Unsolicited Submission - (1977) - poem by Deborah Crawford
• 391 - Judo and the Art of Self-Government - (1980) - short story by Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.
• 398 - Lulu - (1957) - novelette by Clifford D. Simak
• 432 - The Splendid Source - (1956) - short story by Richard Matheson
• 446 - MS. Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie - (1957) - short story by C. M. Kornbluth
• 456 - The Several Murders of Roger Ackroyd - (1977) - short story by Barry N. Malzberg [as by Barry Malzberg]
• 461 - The Critique of Impure Reason - (1962) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• 480 - One Rejection Too Many - (1978) - short story by Patricia Nurse
• 484 - Bug-Getter - (1960) - short story by Reginald Bretnor [as by R. Bretnor]
• 487 - The Last Gothic - (1979) - short story by Jon L. Breen
• 494 - A Benefactor of Humanity - (1958) - short story by James T. Farrell
• 498 - The Silver Eggheads (excerpt) - short fiction by Fritz Leiber
• 503 - Adverbs - (1976) - poem by E. Y. Harburg
• 504 - Dry Spell - (1970) - short story by Bill Pronzini
• 509 - The Odds-On Favorite - (1976) - poem by E. Y. Harburg
• 515 - MS Fnd in a Lbry - (1961) - short story by Hal Draper

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