• "First Ballantine Books Edition: May 1983"
• Printing not stated, no number line
• The artist is not credited, Sternbach's S inside a box is on the artwork
• The TOC is split into three sections [not repeated in the book], each section with subtitles [also not repeated in the book] for each story in the section
The Complement:
Captain [Cordwainer Smith]
Crew [Richard McKenna]
Passengers [Robert Sheckley]
Cargo [Christopher Anvil]
The Type:
Time Relativity Ships [Doris Pitkin Buck]
Generation Ships [Frank M. Robinson]
Suspended Animation Ships [A. E. Van Vogt]
Cybernetic Ships [Anne McCaffrey]
Faster Than Light/Hyperspace Ships [James V. McConnell, note that the story title page drops the 'V.']
The Events:
First Contact [A. Bertram Chandler]
Inspection [Eric Frank Russell]
Disaster [Isaac Asimov]
Combat [Fred Saberhagen]
• The page numbers in the TOC correspond to a brief one-paragraph 'about-the author' that precedes the story title page and text by two pages, the latter numbers are used in the contents below
• Only the US price is printed on the cover, a Ballantine Books Canada [BBC] sticker gives the Price In Canada as $4.25 [there is also an edition printed in Canada]
• Printed in the US
