Contents
- editor’s note ........................................................ Page 7
- introduction ......................................................... 9
- the altar at midnight by c. M. Kornbluth ....................... 17
- hobson’s choice by alfred bester ............................... 24
- outside by brian w. Aldiss ....................................... 39
- angel’s egg by edgar pangborn .................................. 49
- placet is a crazy place by fredric brown ..................... 87
- little lost robot by isaac asimov .............................. 102
- the copper dahlia by gerald kersh .............................. 129
- when you’re smiling by theodore sturgeon ..................... 140
- zero hour by ray bradbury ........................................ 168
- worrywart by clifford simak ...................................... 179
- una by john wyndham .............................................. 195
- blowups happen by robert heinlein .............................. 220
- impostor by philip k. Dick ....................................... 271
- the nine billion names of god by arthur c. Clarke ............ 287
- acknowledgments .................................................... 295

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