529 pages ; 25 cm

A collection of science fiction tales features the writing of Jules Verne, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Poul Anderson, Theodore Sturgeon, Ursula K. LeGuin, Julian Huxley, Rudyard Kipling, Fritz Leiber, Murray Leinster, and others

Short stories

"Abridged from the Arbor House treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces."

The New Accelerator / H.G. Wells – Finis / Frank Lillie Pollack – As easy as A.B.C. / Rudyard Kipling – Dark Lot of One Saul / M.P. Shiel – R.U.R / Karel Capek – The Tissue Culture King / Julian Huxley – The Metal Man / Jack Williamson – The Gostak and the Doshes / Miles J Breuer – Alas, All Thinking / Harry Bates – The Mad Moon / Stanley G. Weinbaum – As Never Was / P Schuyler Miller – Desertion / Clifford D Simak – The strange Case of John Kingman / Murray Leinster – Dreams are Scared / Peter Phillips – Misbegotten Missionary / Isaac Asimov – Dune Roller- lian May – Warm–Robert Sheckley – a Bad Day For Sales / Fritz Leiber – Man Of Parts / H.L Gold – The man who came early / Poul Anderson – The burning of the brain / Cordwainer Smith – The Men who murdered Mohammed / Alfred Bester – The man who lost the sea / Theodore Sturgeon – Goodlife / Fred Saberhagen – The sliced-Crosswise only-on-Tuesday / Philip Jose Farmer – Gehenna / Barry N. Malzberg – A meeting with medusa / Arthur C Clarke – Painwise / James Tiptree, Jr. – Nobody’s home / Joanna Russ – Think only this of me / Michael Kurland – Capricorn Games / Robert Silverberg – The Author of the Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics / Ursula K. Le Guin – Doing Lennon / Gregory Benford