Two of the Grand Master's finest: The saga of the opening of the space frontier as courageous men and women risked their lives to build the first space station and colonize the Moon and Venus, while praying for one last landing on the globe that gave them birth, to return to The Green Hills of Earth.From a mysterious region on Earth, where a more advanced lifeform may be studying the interesting creatures called "humans," to the first moon colony, where a young girl's relationship with her boyfriend is endangered by the beautiful Menace from Earth.Classic Heinlein, in a new Omni-trade format package.

    Contents:· The Dead Past · nv Astounding Apr ’56 · The Foundation of Science Fiction Success · pm F&SF Oct ’54 · Franchise · ss If Aug ’55 · Gimmicks Three [“The Brazen Locked Room”] · ss F&SF Nov ’56 · Kid Stuff · ss Beyond Fantasy Fiction Sep ’53 · The Watery Place · ss Satellite Oct ’56 · Living Space · ss Science Fiction Stories May ’56 · The Message · vi F&SF Feb ’56 · Satisfaction Guaranteed [Susan Calvin (Robot)] · ss Amazing Apr ’51 · Hell-Fire · vi Fantastic Universe May ’56 · The Last Trump · ss Fantastic Universe Jun ’55 · The Fun They Had · ss The Boys and Girls Page Dec 1 ’51; F&SF Feb ’54 · Jokester · ss Infinity Science Fiction Dec ’56 · The Immortal Bard · vi Universe May ’54 · Someday · ss Infinity Science Fiction Aug ’56 · The Author’s Ordeal · pm Science Fiction Quarterly May ’57 · Dreaming Is a Private Thing · ss F&SF Dec ’55

    That's where James Mowry comes in. Intensively trained, his appearance surgically altered, Mowry secretly lands on one of the Empire's planets. His mission: to sap morale, cause mayhem, tie up resources, and wage a one-man war on a planet of 80 million--in short, to be like the wasp buzzing around a car to distract the driver...and causing him to crash.

    But his new owner, Baslim, is not the disabled beggar he appears to be: adopting Thorby as his son, he fights relentlessly as an abolitionist spy. When the authorities close in on Baslim, Thorby must ride with the Free Traders — a league of merchant princes — throughout the many worlds of a hostile galaxy, finding the courage to live by his wits and fight his way from society's lowest rung. But Thorby's destiny will be forever changed when he discovers the truth about his own identity...

    It was first published in October 1957 by Bantam Books (catalogue number A1672) and already reprinted a month later. It includes the following stories (magazines in which the stories originally appeared given in parentheses):"Pilgrimage to Earth" (Playboy 1956/9; also known as "Love, Incorporated")"All the Things You Are" (Galaxy 1956/7)"Trap" (Galaxy 1956/2)"The Body" (Galaxy 1956/1)"Early Model" (Galaxy 1956/8)"Disposal Service" (Bluebook 1955/1)"Human Man's Burden" (Galaxy 1956/9)"Fear in the Night" (Today's Woman 1952)"Bad Medicine" (Galaxy 1956/7)"Protection" (Galaxy 1956/4)"Earth, Air, Fire and Water" (Astounding 1955/7)"Deadhead" (Galaxy 1955/7)"The Academy" (If 1954/8)"Milk Run" (Galaxy 1954/9)"The Lifeboat Mutiny" (Galaxy 1955/4)

    Rusty had built the Terra Terror I out of a box and some tin cans, and it was hardly the kind of space ship for a trip to the moon! But, nevertheless, Rusty and Susan found themselves flying through space with a messenger from Eopee and a flying saucer attached to their ship.

    In three groupings, "Expedition to the Earth," "Tales from the White Hart," and "Reach for Tomorrow," the selections include such memorable tales as "Encounter at Dawn," "The Sentinel," "Armaments Race," "Jupiter Five" and "Time's Arrow."

    The story first appeared in the December 1957 issue of Super-Science Fiction, and was reprinted in the 1959 collection Nine Tomorrows.The story is one of a number that Asimov wrote expressing his abhorrence of the cold war nuclear arms race, but its lightly ironic flavor has earned it more positive critical responses than those drawn by the bitter moralism of Silly Asses and Darwinian Pool Room.The Hurrians, a small, tailed, vegetarian primate species have found on their space travels that large, non-tailed omnivorous intelligent ape species always end up destroying themselves in a nuclear war. The Hurrians adopted the policy of helping to rebuild the remains of these planetary societies after their nuclear wars, while extracting tribute and genetically modifying the inhabitants into more peaceful races. They are not acting completely selflessly, either: as is discovered in the subsequent conversation with a captured human, each race "helped" in this fashion pays the Hurrians a "modest" contribution, choosing the product that this race is best at. In one case, an otherwise poor race pays in its own members, by forfeiting a set number of individuals into servitude each year.Publication: Super-Science Fiction, December 1957Editor: W. W. ScottCover: Kelly Freas

    "Ghost V" is a clever parody of the problem-solving story of the 1940s, as well as a highly entertaining psychological tale, all done with a very light touch.

    But within the station, the two men had other things on their minds.

    Randy Riddle, his brothers, Tom and Sparky, and sister, Bonnie befriend Opedoxtromeldee, a strange Martian boy they call "Zip-Zip."

    But to those who may have escaped the pull of his imagination, here are some examples of the singular Ellison talent. Stories and essays in which:the terrifying specter of Jack the Ripper walks again, in a tale so relentlessly uncompromising in its examination of the nature of evil, you will not soon be able to shake off its spell.a stranger who may have come from Hell strips the veil of hypocrisy from a town's placid existence, exposing, with awful consequences, the evil underneath.gods for today--the rock god ad the machine god--are described in terms even the most devout will find compelling and strangely disturbing.

    Bertram Chandler]; SHORT STORIES: A Brief History of the Revolution [David Lunde & James Sallis]; Full Commitment [Robert S. Martin]; ARTICLES: SF In the Sun [Frederik Pohl]; Eugen Sanger and the Rocket-propelled Airplane [Willy Ley]

    Young - Thirty Days Had SeptemberH. P. Lovecraft & August Derleth - The Lamp of AlhazredL. Sprague deCamp - How to Talk FuturianGeorge P. Elliott - SandraLewis Carroll - Photography ExtraordinaryRichard Matheson - Old HauntsDouglas Angus - About Time to Go SouthAnthony Boucher - Recommended ReadingPoul Anderson & Gordon R. Dickson - Full Pack (Hokas Wild)Fritz Leiber - The Big TrekCover by Emsh (illustrating "The Big Trek")

    "The Man Who Made Himself" / "In His Image"