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Collection contains:
After / Henry Slesar --
All cats are gray / Andre Norton --
The assassin / Robert Silverberg --
Better than we know / William F. Temple --
The big bounce / Walter S. Tevis --
Bounty / T.L. Sherred --
The briefing / Randall Garrett --
Capsule / Rosalind Straley --
The chasm / Bryce Walton --
The Chicago plan to save a species / Thomas Easton --
Cinderella, Inc. / Christopher Anvil --
Common denominator / John D. MacDonald --
Crazy Annaoj / Fritz Leiber --
The damned thing / Ambrose Bierce --
The dancing partner / Jerome K. Jerome --
The dead valley / Ralph Adams Cram --
Deadly game / Edward Wellen --
Dear pen pal / A.E. van Vogt --
Deathwatch / Norman Spinrad --
Defense mechanism / Katherine MacLean --
Divine madness / Roger Zelazny --
The dread tomato addiction / Mark Clifton --
Dueling clowns / Barry Longyear --
End as a world / F.L. Wallace --
Evensong / Lester del Rey --
Exile / Edmond Hamilton --
The exterminator / A. Hyatt Verrill --
The eyes have it / Philip K. Dick --
Father's in te basement / Philip José Farmer --
The fear of it / Robert Barr --
Feeding time / James E. Gunn --
The fiend / Frederik Pohl --
For value received / Andrew J. Offutt --
The forbidden word / Edward D. Hoch --
The good neighbors / Edgar Pangborn --
The good work / Theodore L. Thomas --
The great secret / George H. Smith --
The harvest / Tom Godwin --
The homesick children / Edward D. Hoch --
The house of ecstasy / Ralph Milne Farley --
How I take their measure / Barry N. Malzberg --
Hunting machine / Carol Emshweiller --
The immortal bard / Isaac Asimov --
In case of fire / Randall Garrett --
An incident on Route 12 / James H. Schmitz --
Interview / Frank A. Javor --
Into the shop / Ron Goulart --
Into your shop I'll creep / Eric Frank Russell --
Itself! / A.E. van Vogt --
Job offer / Henry Slesar. Just desserts / Irving Fang --
The last brave invader / Charles L. Fontenay --
The last men / Frank Belknap Long --
Last warning / Mack Reynolds --
Light of other days / Bob Shaw --
Long way home / Charles G. Waugh --
The looking glass of the law / Kevin O'Donnell, Jr. --
Lost love / Algis Budrys --
Lucifer / Roger Zelazny --
Man of destiny / John Christopher --
Man of distinction / Michael Shaara --
The man who always knew / Algis Budrys --
The man with English / H.L. Gold --
The mansion of forgetfulness / Don Mark Lemon --
My object all sublime / Poul Anderson --
No harm done / Jack Sharkey --
Nobody lives on Burton Street / Greg Benford --
Now I'm watching Roger / Alexei Panshin --
On account of darkness / Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini --
One man's ambition / Bertrand Chandler --
Optical illusion / Mack Reynolds --
The pair / Joe L. Hensley --
The patient / E.M. Hull --
The people's choice / William Jon Watkins --
Playing the game / Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann --
Ponce / Glen Cook --
Poor little warrior! / Brian W. Aldiss --
The problem was lubrication / David R. Bunch --
Publish and perish / Paul J. Nahin --
Pythias / Frederik Pohl --
Refuge / Donald Wismer --
The rescuer / Arthur Porges --
Ripples / Ray Russell --
The saga of DMM / Larry Eisenberg --
Segregationist / Isaac Asimov --
The spy / Theodore L. Thomas --
Straw / Gene Wolfe --
Superiority complex / Thomas N. Scortia --
Teaching prime / Leo P. Kelley --
That only a mother / Judith Merril --
They live forever / Lloyd Biggle, Jr. --
They're playing our song / Harry Harrison --
A thousand deaths / Jack London --
Threshold / Sharon Webb --
To be continued / Robert Silverberg --
Too many eggs / Kri Neville --
Try and change the past / Fritz Leiber --
Turning point / Arthur Porges --
The Twerlik / Jack Sharkey --
What's your excuse? / Alexei Panshin --
While-you-wait / Edward Wellen.

Publish Date
Publisher
Magpie Books
Language
English
Pages
651

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1992, Magpie Books
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1992, Magpie Books
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Left out / Isaac Asimov --
After / Henry Slesar --
All cats are gray / Andre Norton --
The assassin / Robert Silverberg --
Better than we know / William F. Temple --
The big bounce / Walter S. Tevis --
Bounty / T.L. Sherred --
The briefing / Randall Garrett --
Capsule / Rosalind Straley --
The chasm / Bryce Walton --
The Chicago plan to save a species / Thomas Easton --
Cinderella, Inc. / Christopher Anvil --
Common denominator / John D. MacDonald --
Crazy Annaoj / Fritz Leiber --
The damned thing / Ambrose Bierce --
The dancing partner / Jerome K. Jerome --
The dead valley / Ralph Adams Cram --
Deadly game / Edward Wellen --
Dear pen pal / A.E. van Vogt --
Deathwatch / Norman Spinrad --
Defense mechanism / Katherine MacLean --
Divine madness / Roger Zelazny --
The dread tomato addiction / Mark Clifton --
Dueling clowns / Barry Longyear --
End as a world / F.L. Wallace --
Evensong / Lester del Rey --
Exile / Edmond Hamilton --
The exterminator / A. Hyatt Verrill --
The eyes have it / Philip K. Dick --
Father's in te basement / Philip José Farmer --
The fear of it / Robert Barr --
Feeding time / James E. Gunn --
The fiend / Frederik Pohl --
For value received / Andrew J. Offutt --
The forbidden word / Edward D. Hoch --
The good neighbors / Edgar Pangborn --
The good work / Theodore L. Thomas --
The great secret / George H. Smith --
The harvest / Tom Godwin --
The homesick children / Edward D. Hoch --
The house of ecstasy / Ralph Milne Farley --
How I take their measure / Barry N. Malzberg --
Hunting machine / Carol Emshweiller --
The immortal bard / Isaac Asimov --
In case of fire / Randall Garrett --
An incident on Route 12 / James H. Schmitz --
Interview / Frank A. Javor --
Into the shop / Ron Goulart --
Into your shop I'll creep / Eric Frank Russell --
Itself! / A.E. van Vogt --
Job offer / Henry Slesar. Just desserts / Irving Fang --
The last brave invader / Charles L. Fontenay --
The last men / Frank Belknap Long --
Last warning / Mack Reynolds --
Light of other days / Bob Shaw --
Long way home / Charles G. Waugh --
The looking glass of the law / Kevin O'Donnell, Jr. --
Lost love / Algis Budrys --
Lucifer / Roger Zelazny --
Man of destiny / John Christopher --
Man of distinction / Michael Shaara --
The man who always knew / Algis Budrys --
The man with English / H.L. Gold --
The mansion of forgetfulness / Don Mark Lemon --
My object all sublime / Poul Anderson --
No harm done / Jack Sharkey --
Nobody lives on Burton Street / Greg Benford --
Now I'm watching Roger / Alexei Panshin --
On account of darkness / Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini --
One man's ambition / Bertrand Chandler --
Optical illusion / Mack Reynolds --
The pair / Joe L. Hensley --
The patient / E.M. Hull --
The people's choice / William Jon Watkins --
Playing the game / Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann --
Ponce / Glen Cook --
Poor little warrior! / Brian W. Aldiss --
The problem was lubrication / David R. Bunch --
Publish and perish / Paul J. Nahin --
Pythias / Frederik Pohl --
Refuge / Donald Wismer --
The rescuer / Arthur Porges --
Ripples / Ray Russell --
The saga of DMM / Larry Eisenberg --
Segregationist / Isaac Asimov --
The spy / Theodore L. Thomas --
Straw / Gene Wolfe --
Superiority complex / Thomas N. Scortia --
Teaching prime / Leo P. Kelley --
That only a mother / Judith Merril --
They live forever / Lloyd Biggle, Jr. --
They're playing our song / Harry Harrison --
A thousand deaths / Jack London --
Threshold / Sharon Webb --
To be continued / Robert Silverberg --
Too many eggs / Kri Neville --
Try and change the past / Fritz Leiber --
Turning point / Arthur Porges --
The Twerlik / Jack Sharkey --
What's your excuse? / Alexei Panshin --
While-you-wait / Edward Wellen.

Edition Notes

Published in
London
Copyright Date
1986

The Physical Object

Format
paperback
Pagination
xvii, 651p.
Number of pages
651

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL15383892M
Internet Archive
giantbookofscien0000unse
ISBN 10
1854871501
ISBN 13
9781854871503
OCLC/WorldCat
154217355
Library Thing
664899
Goodreads
3437748

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