Contents:
Foreword by Isaac Asimov
Introduction
Homer – The Odyssey (excerpt)
Plato – Timaios (excerpt)
Cyrano de Bergerac – A Journey to the Moon (abridged)
H. G. Wells – The New Accelerator
H. P. Lovecraft – The Cats of Ulthar
Stanley G. Weinbaum – A Martian Odyssey
Lester del Rey – Helen O’Loy
Tom Godwin – The Cold Equations
L. Sprague de Camp – A Gun for Dinosaur
Arthur C. Clarke – Before Eden
Isaac Asimov – The Last Question
Milestones – Novels Worth Reading
About the editor (from Wikipedia):
Lyon Sprague de Camp (27 November 1907 – 6 November 2000), better known as L. Sprague de Camp, was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and non-fiction. In a career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, including novels and works of non-fiction, such as biographies of other fantasy authors. He was a major figure in science fiction in the 1930s and 1940s.
