Forewarning (introduction) / Walter M. Miller, Jr. -- Salvador / Lucius Shepard -- The store of the worlds / Robert Sheckley -- The big flash / Norman Spinrad -- Lot / Ward Moore -- Day at the beach / Carol Emshwiller -- The wheel / John Wyndham -- Jody after the war / Edward Bryant -- The terminal beach / J.G. Ballard -- Tomorrow's children / Poul Anderson -- Heirs apparent / Robert Abernathy -- A master of Babylon / Edgar Pangborn -- Game preserve / Rog Phillips -- By the waters of Babylon / Stephen V. Benét -- There will come soft rains / Ray Bradbury -- To the Chicago abyss / Ray Bradbury -- Lucifer / Roger Zelazny -- Eastward ho! / William Tenn -- The feast of Saint Janis / Michael Swanwick -- "If I forget thee, oh earth ..." / Arthur C. Clarke -- A boy and his dog / Harlan Ellison -- My life in the jungle / Jim Aikin.