The boy, the dog, and the spaceship / Nicholas Fisk -- Invisible in London / H.G. Wells (from The Invisible Man) -- The Dragon of Pendor / Ursula Le Guin (from The Wizard of Earthsea) -- Bobo's star / Glenn Chandler -- The yellow hands / T.H. White (from The Master) -- The specimen / Tim Stout -- Of polymufstock / John Christopher -- Hurled into space / Jules Verne (from Round the Moon) -- Goodbye to the Moon / Monica Hughes (from Crisis on Conshelf Ten) -- The shot from the Moon / Arthur C. Clarke (from Islands in the Sky) -- The fun they had / Isaac Asimov -- A fight between lizards at the center of the earth / Jules Verne (from Voyage to the Center of the Earth) -- The last man alive / M.P. Shiel (from The Purple Cloud) -- How we were tracked by a tripod / John Christopher (from The White Mountains) -- The war of the worlds (an extract) / H.G. Wells -- Homecoming / Stephen David -- All summer in a day / Ray Bradbury -- Grenville's planet / Michael Shaara -- The fear shouter / Jay Williams -- The wind from the Sun / Arthur C. Clarke.

An illustrated collection of science fiction short stories and excerpts from longer works by a variety of authors including H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, and Isaac Asimov.