Collection contains: After / Henry Slesar -- All cats are gray / Andre Norton -- The assassin / Robert Silverberg -- Better than we know / William F. Temple -- The big bounce / Walter S. Tevis -- Bounty / T. L. Sherred -- The briefing / Randall Garrett -- Capsule / Rosalind Straley -- The chasm / Bryce Walton -- The Chicago plan to save a species / Thomas Easton -- Cinderella, Inc. Christopher Anvil -- Common denominator / John D. MacDonald -- Crazy Annaoj / Fritz Leiber -- [The damned thing](https://openlibrary. org/works/OL20084265W) / Ambrose Bierce -- The dancing partner / Jerome K. Jerome -- The dead valley / Ralph Adams Cram -- Deadly game / Edward Wellen -- Dear pen pal / A. E. van Vogt -- Deathwatch / Norman Spinrad -- Defense mechanism / Katherine MacLean Divine madness / Roger Zelazny -- The dread tomato addiction / Mark Clifton -- Dueling clowns / Barry Longyear -- End as a world / F. L. Wallace -- Evensong / Lester del Rey -- Exile / Edmond Hamilton -- The exterminator / A. Hyatt Verrill -- The eyes have it / Philip K. Dick -- Father's in the basement / Philip Jose Farmer -- The fear of it / Robert Barr -- Feeding time / James E. Gunn -- The fiend / Frederik Pohl -- For value received / Andrew J. Offutt -- The forbidden word / Edward D. Hoch -- The good neighbors / Edgar Pangborn -- The good work / Theodore L. Thomas -- The great secret / George H. Smith -- The harvest / Tom Godwin -- The homesick chicken / Edward D. Hoch -- The house of ecstacy / Ralph Milne Farley How I take their measure / Barry N. Malzberg -- Hunting machine / Carol Emshwiller -- The immortal bard / Isaac Asimov -- In case of fire / Randall Garrett -- An incident on route 12 / James H. Schmitz -- Interview / Frank A. Javor -- Into the shop / Ron Goulart -- Into your tent I'll creep / Eric Frank Russell -- Itself! / A. E. van Vogt -- Job offer / Henry Slesar -- Just desserts / Irving Fang -- The last brave invader / Charles L. Fontenay -- The last men / Frank Belknap Long -- Last warning / Mack Reynolds -- Light of other days / Bob Shaw -- Long way home / Charles G. Waugh -- The looking glass of the law / Kevin O'Donnell, Jr. -- Lost love / Algis Budrys -- Lucifer / Roger Zelazny -- Man of destiny / John Christopher Man of distinction / Michael Shaara -- The man who always knew / Algis Budrys -- The man with English / H. L. Gold -- The mansion of forgetfulness / Don Mark Lemon -- My object all sublime / Poul Anderson -- No harm done / Jack Sharkey -- Nobody lives on Burton Street / Greg Benford -- Now I'm watching Roger / Alexei Panshin -- On account of darkness / Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini -- One man's amibition / Bertrand Chandler -- Optical illusion / Mack Reynolds -- The pair / Joe L. Hensley -- The patient / E. M. Hull -- The people's choice / William Jon Watkins -- Playing the game / Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann -- Ponce / Glen Cook -- Poor little warrior! / Brian W. Aldiss -- The problem was lubrication / David R. Bunch -- Publish and perish / Paul J. Nahin -- Pythias / Frederik Pohl Refuge / Donald Wismer -- The rescuer / Arthur Porges -- Ripples / Ray Russell -- The saga of DMM Larry Eisenberg -- Segregationist / Isaac Asimov -- The spy / Theodore L. Thomas -- Straw / Gene Wolfe -- Superiority complex / Thomas N. Scortia -- Teaching prime / Leo P. Kelley -- That only a mother / Judith Merril -- They live forever / Lloyd Biggle, Jr. -- They're playing our song / Harry Harrison -- A thousand deaths / Jack London -- Threshold / Sharon Webb -- To be continued / Robert Silverberg -- Too many eggs / Kris Neville -- Try and change the past / Fritz Leiber -- Turning point / Arthur Porges -- The Twerlik / Jack Sharkey -- What's your excuse? Alexei Panshin -- While-you-wait / Edward Wellen