Introduction / Gordon Van Gelder -- Of time and Third Avenue / Alfred Bester -- All summer in a day / Ray Bradbury -- One ordinary day, with peanuts / Shirley Jackson -- Touch of strange / Theodore Sturgeon -- Eastward ho! / William Tenn -- Flowers for Algernon / Daniel Keyes -- Harrison Bergeron / Kurt Vonnegut -- This moment of the storm / Roger Zelazny -- Electric ant / Philip K. Dick -- Deathbird / Harlan Ellison -- Women men don't see / James Tiptree, Jr. -- I see you / Damon Knight -- Gunslinger / Stephen King -- Dark / Karen Joy Fowler -- Buffalo / John Kessel -- Solitude / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Mother grasshopper / Michael Swanwick -- Macs / Terry Bisson -- Creation / Jeffrey Ford -- Other people / Neil Gaiman -- Two hearts / Peter S. Beagle -- Journey into the kingdom / M. Rickert -- Merchant and the alchemist's gate / Ted Chiang.