Contents:
"Introduction: Science-Fiction Games," 1974
"In the Problem Pit," 1973
"Let the Ants Try," 1949
"To See Another Mountain," 1959
"The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass," 1962 (aka The Time Machine of Phineas...
Caution! You are about to enter a world...
...where all engineering ingenuity has been employed for public spectacles of torture and death.
...where the stock market operated with pari-mutuel machines.
...where a court clerk transcribes...
He was a master teacher-respected, successful, his life well rewarded in past accomplishments and rich in the promise of achievements to come.
And yet he was fighting a bitter battle with a savage, bewildering driveto self-destruction.
But...
Original collection of stories. Includes foreword and afterward by Pohl, and these stories: The Quaker Cannon (1961); Mute Inglorious Tam (1974); The World of Myrion Flowers (1961); The Gift of Garigolli (1974); A Gentle Dying (1961); A Hint of...
When a mysterious alien spacecraft approaches the Earth and demands to speak with the President of the United States, then destroys a large Pacific island to demonstrate its strength and seriousness, you'd expect the President to talk. Problem is,...
Collection of classic stories by collaborators C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl. Introduction and Afterword by Pohl, plus these stories: Mars-Tube (1941); Trouble in Time (1940); Vacant World (1940); Best Friend (1941); Before the Universe (1940);...