This volume contains the great works of fiction as well as the complete diaries and thus gives the reader considrable insight into the mind of this strange and powerful man.

    Heard, Lewis Padgett, Robert Heinlein, Murray Leinster, A. E. Van Vogt, Arthur Clarke, and many others. Edited by the master of early science fiction anthologies, Groff Conklin.Contents:vii · Introduction · Groff Conklin · in · Part One: The Atom and After 3 · The Nightmare · Chan Davis · nv Astounding May ’46 19 · Tomorrow’s Children · Poul Anderson & F. N. Waldrop · nv Astounding Mar ’47 40 · The Last Objective · Paul Carter · nv Astounding Aug ’46 62 · Loophole · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Astounding Apr ’46 67 · The Figure · Edward Grendon · ss Astounding Jul ’47 · Part Two: The Wonders of Earth 75 · The Great Fog · H. F. Heard · ss The Great Fog and Other Weird Tales, Vanguard, 1944 85 · The Chrysalis · P. Schuyler Miller · ss Astounding Apr ’36 97 · Living Fossil · L. Sprague de Camp · ss Astounding Feb ’39 110 · N Day · Philip Latham · ss Astounding Jan ’46 · Part Three: The Superscience of Man 129 · With Folded Hands... [Humanoids] · Jack Williamson · nv Astounding Jul ’47 164 · No Woman Born · C. L. Moore · nv Astounding Dec ’44 201 · With Flaming Swords · Cleve Cartmill · nv Astounding Sep ’42 234 · Children of the “Betsy B” · Malcolm Jameson · ss Astounding Mar ’39 · Part Four: Dangerous Inventions 247 · Child’s Play · William Tenn · nv Astounding Mar ’47 268 · The Person from Porlock · Raymond F. Jones · nv Astounding Aug ’47 286 · Juggernaut · A. E. van Vogt · ss Astounding Aug ’44 294 · The Eternal Man [Herbert Zulerich] · D. D. Sharp · ss Science Wonder Stories Aug ’29 · Part Five: Adventures in Dimension 303 · Mimsy Were the Borogoves · Lewis Padgett · nv Astounding Feb ’43 329 · Time and Time Again · H. Beam Piper · ss Astounding Apr ’47 342 · Housing Shortage · Harry Walton · ss Astounding Jan ’47 358 · Flight of the Dawn Star · Robert Moore Williams · ss Astounding Mar ’38 369 · Vintage Season [by Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore] · Lawrence O’Donnell · na Astounding Sep ’46 · Part Six: From Outer Space 407 · Of Jovian Build · Oscar J. Friend · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Oct ’38 418 · Wings Across the Cosmos · Polton Cross · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Jun ’38 429 · The Embassy · Martin Pearson · ss Astounding Mar ’42 435 · Dark Mission · Lester del Rey · ss Astounding Jul ’40 · Part Seven: Far Traveling 451 · The Ethical Equations · Murray Leinster · ss Astounding Jun ’45 464 · It’s Great to Be Back! · Robert A. Heinlein · ss The Saturday Evening Post Jul 26 ’47 476 · Tools · Clifford D. Simak · nv Astounding Jul ’42 496 · Rescue Party · Arthur C. Clarke · nv Astounding May ’46

    A collection of some of the most enduring poetry of any age.

    StriblingThe man who murdered in public Roy VickersCabin B-13 John Dickson CarrThe stripper Anthony BoucherChallenge to the reader Hugh PentecostThe missing Shakespeare Ms. Lillian de la TorreMother, may I go out to swim? Patrick QuentinDouble exposure Ben HechtLaugh it off Charlotte ArmstrongThe case of the irate witness Erle Stanley GardnerBy his own hand Rex StoutMiracles do happen Ellery QueenBlonde beauty slain Cornell WoolrichAlternate title: Ellery Queen's Twentieth Century Detective Stories

    W. H. Auden’s splendid anthology locates the truth behind the truism, while filling in the gaps in our knowledge of a people who gave us so much of our cultural legacy. Every page in The Portable Greek Reader contains some fundamental precursor of the ways in which we think about heroism, destiny, love, politics, tragedy, science, virtue, and thought itself, Included are excerpts from the mythologies of Hesiod; the martial epics of Homer; the dramas of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides; the philosophy of Plato, Aristotle, and Heraclitus; Aesop’s fables; poems by Pindar and Sappho; the scientific writings of Euclid, Galen, and Hippocrates; and the history of Thucydides. Presented in their most elegant and authoritative translations, and accompanied by Auden’s brilliant introduction, these selections recreate the Greek world in all its splendor, strangeness, and sophistication.“Engaging and full and intelligent … a command performance, brought off with considerable aplomb.” —The New York Times