Seven superb tales of possible worlds where...
television covers the inhuman side of the news;
ingenious social planning makes every man a dictator;
computerized brain repair proves too successful;
spaceships vanish in the fourth dimension;
the competition for habitable planets inspires an interstellar hoax;
peculiar bugs appear and things, literally, begin to fall apart;
a highly developed society exists without the clutter of technology.
Carefully selected and edited by Groff Conklin, each of these stories represents the work of a master in the field. Taken together they make a collection of great diversity, imagination and creativity, especially designed for the connoisseur of science fiction.
Contents:
Preface • essay by Groff Conklin
The Golden Bugs • (1960) • novelette by Clifford D. Simak
Special Feature • (1958) • novelette by Charles V. De Vet
Panic Button • (1959) • shortstory by Eric Frank Russell
Discontinuity • (1950) • novelette by Raymond F. Jones
The Corianis Disaster • (1960) • novella by Murray Leinster
The Servant Problem • (1955) • novelette by William Tenn
Rite of Passage • (1954) • novelette by Chad Oliver
