Prologue
A.D. 2267
John Frederick Nims
Creating Context
"Beam Me Up, Scotty" • Concept Vocabulary
Cluster One: What’s the "Science" in Science Fiction?
Thinking Skill: Analyzing
- Backward Step (short story)
- Paul Jennings
- Robot Dreams (short story)
- Isaac Asimov
- Terraforming Mars (article)
- Margarita Marinova and Christopher P. McKay
- A Martian Sends a Postcard Home (poem)
- Craig Raine
- Mariana (short story)
- Fritz Leiber
Cluster Two: Who's Out There?
Thinking Skill: Hypothesizing
- Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed (short story)
- Ray Bradbury
- Project Blue Book (government report)
- Editorial Staff, Time-Life Books
- What's Alien You? (satire)
- Dave Barry
- In Communication with a UFO (poem)
- Helen Chasin
- Puppet Show (short story)
- Fredric Brown
Cluster Three: What Can We Learn from Science Fiction?
Thinking Skill: Drawing Conclusions
- The Star Beast (short story)
- Nicholas Stuart Gray
- From Science Fiction to Science Fact (biographies)
- Julie Nobles
- Lose Now, Pay Later (short story)
- Carol Farley
- The Water Traders' Dream (poem)
- Robert Priest
- The Helping Hand (short story)
- Norman Spinrad
Cluster Four: Thinking on Your Own
Thinking Skill: Synthesizing
- SQ (short story)
- URSULA K. Le Guin
- All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (poem)
- Richard Brautigan
- Minister Without Portfolio (short story)
- Mildred Clingerman
- The Choice (short story)
- W. Hilton-Young
