What would happen if someone invented a machine that could create an exact duplicate of anything? That is the simple but remarkable premise of Damon Knight's classic 1959 novel, A for Anything. "The Gismo," as the machine is known, seems like it...
Sequel to CV and The Observers. After invading Sea Venture, Earth's largest ocean habitat, the Symbionts have infected the bodies of both humans and animals. Now, people become smarter—or they die. Violence is punished by instant execution from...
Seven Rithians had landed on Earth. Six had been disposed of. One was loose and had to be found.
But how do you detect a monster that can disguise itself as a man... any...
Published in the January 1954 issue, this novella was Knight’s longest contribution to the magazine. Dealing with a familiar extrapolation--a future population divided between a mutually antagonistic farm society of exiles and a technologically...