| "Big Game" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Isaac Asimov
                              
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                        1974 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1974 | Before the Golden Age edited by Isaac Asimov | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Men and the Mirror" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Ross Rocklynne
                              
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                        1938 | 
                      
                            
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                            | "Minus Planet" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                John D. Clark
                              
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                        1937 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1974 | Before the Golden Age edited by Isaac Asimov | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Past, Present and Future" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Nat Schachner
                              
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                        1937 | 
                      
                            
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                            | "The Brain Stealers of Mars" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                John W. Campbell, Jr.
                              
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                        1936 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1974 | Before the Golden Age edited by Isaac Asimov | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Devolution" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Edmond Hamilton
                              
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                        1936 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1974 | Before the Golden Age edited by Isaac Asimov | 
                                             | 2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "He Who Shrank" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Henry Hasse
                              
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                        1936 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1946 | Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas | 
                                             | 1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Pre-1940 SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker | 
                                             | 1974 | Before the Golden Age edited by Isaac Asimov | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Human Pets of Mars" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Leslie F. Stone
                              
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                        1936 | 
                      
                            
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                            | "The Accursed Galaxy" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Edmond Hamilton
                              
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                        1935 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1974 | Before the Golden Age edited by Isaac Asimov | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Parasite Planet" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Stanley G. Weinbaum
                              
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                        1935 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1974 | Before the Golden Age edited by Isaac Asimov | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Proxima Centauri" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Murray Leinster
                              
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                        1935 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Pre-1940 SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker | 
                                             | 1974 | Before the Golden Age edited by Isaac Asimov | 
                                             | 1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 2: From Wells to Heinlein edited by James Gunn | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Born of the Sun" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Jack Williamson
                              
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                        1934 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1974 | Before the Golden Age edited by Isaac Asimov | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Colossus" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Donald Wandrei
                              
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                        1934 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1974 | Before the Golden Age edited by Isaac Asimov | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Old Faithful" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Raymond Z. Gallun
                              
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                        1934 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Pre-1940 SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker | 
                                             | 1974 | Before the Golden Age edited by Isaac Asimov | 
                                             | 1977 | The Best Science Fiction Stories edited by Michael Stapleton | 
                                             | 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Sidewise in Time" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Murray Leinster
                              
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                        1934 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Pre-1940 SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker | 
                                             | 1974 | Before the Golden Age edited by Isaac Asimov | 
                                             | 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Man Who Awoke" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Laurence Manning
                              
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                        1933 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1974 | Before the Golden Age edited by Isaac Asimov | 
                                             | 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Tumithak in Shawm" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Charles R. Tanner
                              
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                        1933 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1974 | Before the Golden Age edited by Isaac Asimov | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Moon Era" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Jack Williamson
                              
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                        1932 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1974 | Before the Golden Age edited by Isaac Asimov | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Tumithak of the Corridors" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Charles R. Tanner
                              
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                        1932 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1974 | Before the Golden Age edited by Isaac Asimov | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Awlo of Ulm" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                S. P. Meek
                              
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                        1931 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1974 | Before the Golden Age edited by Isaac Asimov | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Jameson Satellite" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Neil R. Jones
                              
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                        1931 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1974 | Before the Golden Age edited by Isaac Asimov | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Man Who Evolved" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Edmond Hamilton
                              
                             | 
                      
                        1931 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1974 | Before the Golden Age edited by Isaac Asimov | 
                                             | 2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Submicroscopic" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                S. P. Meek
                              
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                        1931 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1974 | Before the Golden Age edited by Isaac Asimov | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Tetrahedra of Space" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                P. Schuyler Miller
                              
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                        1931 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1974 | Before the Golden Age edited by Isaac Asimov | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The World of the Red Sun" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Clifford D. Simak
                              
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                        1931 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1974 | Before the Golden Age edited by Isaac Asimov | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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