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The follow-up to Silverberg's earlier Arbor House anthology focuses on short novels, or novellas, and discusses the difficulty of reprinting notable works of these lengths in anthologies with limited space. (Silverberg did an earlier, paperback anthology, Great Short Novels of Science Fiction, that just preceded in 1970 the first volume of his Alpha series. That book included 3 of the 15 stories here.)

Though a companion to the earlier Arbor House anthology, Silverberg slightly relaxes that one's scope; one story here was published in 1945, and Silverberg's introduction mentions that one story was written as early as 1941.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels) - (1980) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg and Robert Silverberg [as by Martin Harry Greenberg and Robert Silverberg]
• Beyond Bedlam - (1951) - novella by Wyman Guin
• Equinoctial - (1977) - novella by John Varley
• By His Bootstraps - (1941) - novella by Robert A. Heinlein
• The Golden Helix - (1954) - novella by Theodore Sturgeon
• Born with the Dead - (1974) - novella by Robert Silverberg
• Second Game - (1958) - novelette by Katherine MacLean and Charles V. De Vet
• The Dead Past - (1956) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• The Road to the Sea - (1951) - novella by Arthur C. Clarke
• The Star Pit - (1967) - novella by Samuel R. Delany
• Giant Killer - (1945) - novella by A. Bertram Chandler
• A Case of Conscience - (1953) - novella by James Blish
• Dio - (1957) - novelette by Damon Knight
• Houston, Houston, Do You Read? - (1976) - novella by James Tiptree, Jr.
• On the Storm Planet - (1965) - novella by Cordwainer Smith
• The Miracle-Workers - (1958) - novella by Jack Vance

This anthology was re-released by Random House imprint Avenel Books in 1989 as Worlds Imagined; the only change in contents being that "The Miracle-Workers" was excluded, possibly for publishing rights reasons.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Stephen King
• Hop Frog - (1849) - shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe
• Rappaccini's Daughter - (1844) - novelette by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Squire Toby's Will - (1868) - novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• The Squaw - (1893) - shortstory by Bram Stoker
• The Jolly Corner - (1908) - novelette by Henry James
• "Man Overboard!" - (1899) - shortstory by Winston Churchill
• The Hand - (1919) - shortstory by Theodore Dreiser
• The Valley of Spiders - (1903) - shortstory by H. G. Wells
• The Middle Toe of the Right Foot - (1890) - shortstory by Ambrose Bierce
• Pickman's Model - (1927) - shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft
• Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper - (1943) - shortstory by Robert Bloch
• The Screaming Laugh - (1938) - novelette by Cornell Woolrich
• A Rose for Emily - (1930) - shortstory by William Faulkner
• Bianca's Hands - (1947) - shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon
• The Girl with the Hungry Eyes - (1949) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
• Shut a Final Door - (1947) - shortstory by Truman Capote
• Come and Go Mad - (1949) - novelette by Fredric Brown
• The Scarlet King - (1954) - shortstory by Evan Hunter
• Sticks - (1974) - novelette by Karl Edward Wagner
• Sardonicus - (1961) - novelette by Ray Russell
• A Teacher's Rewards - (1970) - shortstory by Robert S. Phillips
• The Roaches - (1965) - shortstory by Thomas M. Disch
• The Jam - (1958) - shortstory by Henry Slesar
• Black Wind - (1979) - shortstory by Bill Pronzini
• The Road to Mictlantecutli - (1965) - shortstory by Adobe James
• Passengers - (1968) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• The Explosives Expert - (1967) - shortstory by John Lutz
• Call First - (1975) - shortstory by Ramsey Campbell
• The Fly - (1952) - shortstory by Arthur Porges
• Namesake - shortstory by Rosalind M. Greenberg
• Camps - (1979) - novelette by Jack Dann
• You Know Willie - (1957) - shortstory by Theodore R. Cogswell
• The Mindworm - (1950) - shortstory by C. M. Kornbluth
• Warm - (1953) - shortstory by Robert Sheckley
• Transfer - (1975) - shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg
• The Doll - (1980) - novelette by Joyce Carol Oates
• If Damon Comes - (1978) - shortstory by Charles L. Grant
• Mass Without Voices - (1979) - shortfiction by Arthur L. Samuels
• The Oblong Room - (1967) - shortstory by Edward D. Hoch
• The Party - (1967) - shortstory by William F. Nolan
• The Crate - (1979) - novelette by Stephen King

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
• Angel's Egg - (1951) - novelette by Edgar Pangborn
• Rescue Party - (1946) - novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
• Shape - (1953) - novelette by Robert Sheckley
• Alpha Ralpha Boulevard - (1961) - novelette by Cordwainer Smith
• Winter's King - (1969) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Or All the Seas with Oysters - (1958) - shortstory by Avram Davidson
• Common Time - (1953) - novelette by James Blish
• When You Care, When You Love - (1962) - novella by Theodore Sturgeon
• The Shadow of Space - (1967) - novelette by Philip José Farmer
• "All You Zombies --" - (1959) - shortstory by Robert A. Heinlein
• I'm Scared - (1951) - shortstory by Jack Finney
• Child's Play - (1947) - novelette by William Tenn
• Grandpa - (1955) - novelette by James H. Schmitz
• Private Eye - (1949) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
• Sundance - (1969) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• In the Bowl - (1975) - novelette by John Varley
• Kaleidoscope - (1949) - shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• Unready to Wear - (1953) - shortstory by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night - (1961) - novelette by Algis Budrys
• Day Million - (1966) - shortstory by Frederik Pohl
• Hobson's Choice - (1952) - shortstory by Alfred Bester
• The Gift of Gab - (1955) - novella by Jack Vance
• The Man Who Never Grew Young - (1947) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
• Neutron Star - (1966) - novelette by Larry Niven
• Impostor - (1953) - shortstory by Philip K. Dick
• The Human Operators - (1971) - novelette by Harlan Ellison and A. E. van Vogt
• Poor Little Warrior! - (1958) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• When It Changed - (1972) - shortstory by Joanna Russ
• The Bicentennial Man - (1976) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• Hunting Machine - (1957) - shortstory by Carol Emshwiller
• Light of Other Days - (1966) - shortstory by Bob Shaw
• The Keys to December - (1966) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
• Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand - (1973) - novelette by Vonda N. McIntyre
• A Galaxy Called Rome - (1975) - novelette by Barry N. Malzberg
• Stranger Station - (1956) - novelette by Damon Knight
• The Time of His Life - (1968) - shortstory by Larry Eisenberg
• The Marching Morons - (1951) - novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
• The Women Men Don't See - (1973) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• The Queen of Air and Darkness - (1971) - novella by Poul Anderson

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
• Mellonta Tauta - (1849) - shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe
• In the Year 2889 - (1889) - shortstory by Jules Verne (trans. of La Journée d'un journaliste américain en 2889 1891)
• Sold to Satan - (1923) - shortstory by Mark Twain
• The New Accelerator - (1901) - shortstory by H. G. Wells
• Finis - (1906) - shortstory by Frank Lillie Pollock
• As Easy as A.B.C. - (1912) - novelette by Rudyard Kipling
• Dark Lot of One Saul - (1912) - novelette by M. P. Shiel
• R. U. R. - (1921) - shortfiction by Karel Capek (trans. of R. U. R. 1920)
• The Tissue-Culture King - (1926) - shortstory by Julian Huxley
• The Metal Man - (1928) - shortstory by Jack Williamson
• The Gostak and the Doshes - (1930) - shortstory by Miles J. Breuer, M.D.
• Alas, All Thinking! - (1935) - novelette by Harry Bates
• The Mad Moon - (1935) - novelette by Stanley G. Weinbaum
• As Never Was - (1944) - shortstory by P. Schuyler Miller
• Desertion - (1944) - shortstory by Clifford D. Simak
• The Strange Case of John Kingman - (1948) - shortstory by Murray Leinster
• Dreams Are Sacred - (1948) - novelette by Peter Phillips
• Misbegotten Missionary - (1950) - shortstory by Isaac Asimov
• Dune Roller - (1951) - novelette by Julian May
• Warm - (1953) - shortstory by Robert Sheckley
• A Bad Day for Sales - (1953) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
• Man of Parts - (1954) - shortstory by H. L. Gold
• The Man Who Came Early - (1956) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• The Burning of the Brain - (1958) - shortstory by Cordwainer Smith
• The Men Who Murdered Mohammed - (1958) - shortstory by Alfred Bester
• The Man Who Lost the Sea - (1959) - shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon
• Goodlife - (1963) - novelette by Fred Saberhagen
• The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World - (1971) - shortstory by Philip José Farmer
• Gehenna - (1971) - shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg
• A Meeting With Medusa - (1971) - novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
• Painwise - (1972) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Nobody's Home - (1972) - shortstory by Joanna Russ
• Think Only This of Me - (1973) - novelette by Michael Kurland
• Capricorn Games - (1974) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
• "The Author of the Acacia Seeds" and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics - (1974) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Travels - (1980) - shortstory by Carter Scholz
• Doing Lennon - (1975) - shortstory by Gregory Benford