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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
1.
ROBOTS
A selection from
THE IDEAL
BY STANLEY G. WEINBAUM
MOXON’S MASTER
BY AMBROSE BIERCE
REASON
BY ISAAC ASIMOV
Here now is the pathos I promised you—along with some humor which I did not mention—in a short story by a young British author who saw action in Burma and Sumatra in World War 11 and has been writing science fiction of increasing vividness and authority ever since. Like Bierce in a way, and like his compatriot J. G. Ballard, Aldiss is fascinated by the ugly and grotesque; his work frequently rises to really inspired nastiness (as in “Poor Little Warrior,” The Best From Fantasy and Science Fiction: Eighth Series, 1959). Here, although there is a touch of grotesquerie, Aldiss' mood is less savage than usual; his robots are among the most believable, and most appealing, in the literature.
BUT WHO CAN REPLACE A MAN?
BY BRIAN W. ALDISS
2
TIME TRAVEL
a selection from
THE TIME MACHINE
BY H. G. WELLS
OF TIME AND THIRD AVENUE
BY ALFRED BESTER
SAIL ON SAIL ON!
BY PHILIP JOSÉ FARMER
A selection from
WORLDS OF THE IMPERIUM
BY KEITH LAUMER
THE BUSINESS, AS USUAL
BY MACK REYNOLDS
3.
SPACE
WHAT’S IT LIKE OUT THERE?
BY EDMOND HAMILTON
SKY LIFT
BY ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
THE STAR
BY ARTHUR C. CLARKE
4
OTHER WORLDS AND PEOPLE
THE CRYSTAL EGG
BY H. G. WELLS
THE WIND PEOPLE
BY MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY
UNUMAN SACRIFICE
BY KATHERINE MacLEAN
5.
ALIENS AMONG US
WHAT WAS IT?
BY FITZ-JAMES O’BRIEN
THE FIRST DAYS OF MAY
BY CLAUDE VEILLOT
TRANSLATED BY DAMON KNIGHT
DAY OF SUCCESSION
BY THEODORE L. THOMAS
ANGEL’S EGG
BY EDGAR PANGBORN
6.
SUPERMAN
ANOTHER WORLD
BY J.-H. ROSNY AÎNÉ
TRANSLATED BY DAMON KNIGHT
A selection from
ODD JOHN
BY OLAF STAPLEDON
CALL ME JOE
BY POUL ANDERSON
7.
MARVELOUS
INVENTIONS
FROM THE
LONDON TIMES OF 1904
BY MARK TWAIN
A selection from
TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA
BY JULES VERNE
YOU ARE WITH IT!
BY WILL STANTON
CEASE FIRE
BY FRANK HERBERT
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