The Shape of Things (anthology)

• "Introduction" (Damon Knight)
• "Don't Look Now" (1948) (Henry Kuttner)
• "The Box" (1949) (James Blish)
• "The New Reality" (1950) (Charles L. Harness)
• "The Eternal Now" (1944) (Murray Leinster)
• "The Sky Was Full of Ships" (1947) (Theodore Sturgeon)
• "The Shape of Things" (1948) (Ray Bradbury)
• "The Only Thing We Learn" (1949) (C. M. Kornbluth)
• "The Hibited Man" (1949) (L. Sprague de Camp)
• "Dormant" (1948) (A. E. van Vogt)
• "The Ambassadors" (1952) (Anthony Boucher)
• "A Child Is Crying" (1948) (John D. MacDonald)

Jeffery A. Beaudry, reviewing the anthology in The Washington Post, characterized its general content as "stories from the late '40s and early '50s ... pulpy and populated by mad scientists, good-guy scientists and helpless young 'girls,' but ... great fun."^[2]