Subtitled "Science Fiction Classics From The Mainstream".

Edited by Harry Harrison

Introduction: The Function of Science Fiction, by James Blish

"The Muse" by Anthony Burgess

"The Unsafe Deposit Box" by Gerald Kersh

"Something Strange" by Kingsley Amis

"Sold to Satan" by Mark Twain

"The End of the Party" by Graham Greene

"The Circular Ruins" by Jorge Luis Borges

"The Shout" by Robert Graves

"The Door" by E. B. White

"The Machine Stops" by E.M. Forster

"The Mark Gable Foundation" by Leo Szilard

"The Enormous Radio" by John Cheever

"The Finest Story in the World" by Rudyard Kipling

"The Shoddy Lands" by C.S. Lewis

Afterword by Harry Harrison

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, October 1971, 216pp., ISBN: 0-684-10228-5, hbk.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, October 1971, 216pp., ISBN: 0-684-12565-X, tpbk.

as: Gezeiten des Lichts. West Germany: Kindler, 1973, 193pp., ISBN: 3-463-00556-5. Translated by Gertrud Baruch, Karl August Horst, Walter Puchwein, et al. Note: Omits the afterword. [German]

Kirkus Reviews, 15th January 1971.

Library Journal, 1st April 1971. Review by D. Gilzinger

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1971. Review by Joanna Russ

Publishers Weekly, 1st February 1971. Review by J. Newton