Something new under the sun / R.S. Wilson -- The prize of wonder / R. Hoskins -- The balloon-hoax / E.A. Poe -- Flatland: two excerpts / E.A. Abbott -- Moxon's master / A. Bierce -- The land ironclads / H.G. Wells -- With the night mail / R. Kipling -- The machine stops / E.M. Forster -- The unparalleled invasion / J. London -- The disintegration machine / A.C. Doyle -- "Metropolitan nightmater" & "Nightmare number three" / S.V. Benet -- Killdozer! / T. Sturgeon -- Surface tension / J. Blish.