Volume 1 • "
Life-Line" (*) • "Successful Operation" • "
Blowups Happen" (*) • "
Solution Unsatisfactory" (*) • "The Last Days of the United States" • "How to Be a Survivor" • "Pie from the Sky" • "They Do It with Mirrors" • "
Free Men" (*) • "No Bands Playing, No Flags Flying" • "
A Bathroom of Her Own" • "On the Slopes of Vesuvius"
Volume 2 • "
Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon" • "Pandora's Box" (*) • "Where To?" (1950, 1965, 1980) • "Cliff and the Calories" • "Ray Guns and Rocket Ships" • "The Third Millennium Opens" • "
Who Are the Heirs of Patrick Henry?" • "Pravda Means Truth" • "Inside Intourist" • "
Searchlight" (*) • "The Pragmatics of Patriotism" • "Paul Dirac, Antimatter, and You" • "Larger than Life", a tribute to
E. E. "Doc" Smith • "Spinoff", about
NASA spinoff technologies • "The Happy Days Ahead"
Notes • Items marked with an
asterisk had appeared in
The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein. • Some editions split
Expanded Universe into two volumes. ==Reception==