Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing critical light on the present and is considered to be Aldous Huxley's most enduring masterpiece.The non-fiction work Brave New World Revisited, published in 1958, is a fascinating work in which Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy envisioned in Brave New World, including the threats to humanity, such as over-population, propaganda, and chemical persuasion.

    These stories of other planets and galactic adventures show Arthur C Clarke at the peak of his powers: sometimes disturbing, always intriguing.

    Multivac, the gigantic computer that controls the entire world and can even predict the probabilities of potential crimes before they happen, suddenly announces that someone is plotting to destroy Multivac.

    But it was also understood that when a really dangerous job had to be done, a scout-pilot was the man to do it.So for John Leeming, a couple of months of dodging death in a one-man ship, zipping in and out of the enemy Combine's rearguard, was just another one of those jobs. And there was no man in the Universe more surprised than Leeming when his heretofore indestructible ship just gave up the ghost smack in the middle of a Combine-held prison planet!It was then that the spirit of the Scout Corps had its chance to shine. With self-confidence as his only weapon, Leeming had only two choices: give in to the enemy and be captured...or quick-talk them into a real case of THE SPACE WILLIE!

    The story first appeared in the September 1958 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction under the title "Lastborn", and was reprinted under its current title in the 1959 collection Nine Tomorrows. The story deals with a Homo neanderthalensis child which is brought to the future by means of time travel. Robert Silverberg later expanded it into a novel with the same title published in 1992 (also published as Child of Time in the UK).Asimov has said that this was his second or third favorite of his own stories.Unabridged, Read by the author.

    Admittedly Gummitch is an unusual kitten, with powers and abilities far beyond those commonly attributed to ordinary cats. (from review by William H. Stoddard, March 2009)

    Contents:1 · Honeymoon in Hell · nv Galaxy Nov ’50 36 · Too Far · vi F&SF Sep ’55 38 · Man of Distinction · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Feb ’51 47 · Millennium · vi F&SF Mar ’55 49 · The Dome · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Aug ’51 58 · Blood · vi F&SF Feb ’55 60 · Hall of Mirrors · ss Galaxy Dec ’53 67 · Experiment · vi Galaxy Feb ’54; Two Timer, gp 69 · The Last Martian · ss Galaxy Oct ’50 78 · Sentry · vi Galaxy Feb ’54; Two Timer, gp 80 · Mouse · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Jun ’49 91 · Naturally · vi Beyond Fantasy Fiction Sep ’54; Double Whammy, gp 93 · Voodoo · vi Beyond Fantasy Fiction Sep ’54; Double Whammy, gp 95 · “Arena” · nv Astounding Jun ’44 124 · Keep Out · ss Amazing Mar ’54 128 · First Time Machine · vi EQMM Sep ’55; Killers Three, gp 130 · And the Gods Laughed · ss Planet Stories Spr ’44 144 · The Weapon · ss Astounding Apr ’51 148 · A Word from Our Sponsor · ss Other Worlds Sep ’51 164 · Rustle of Wings · ss F&SF Aug ’53 170 · Imagine · pp F&SF May ’55

    Methuselah's Children: Americans are fiercely proud of the freedom they seized in Revolt in 2100. Nothing could make them forswear it. Nothing except the secret of immortality....

    This time, the boys want to tour the United States, but there is one small problem--they only have four days to do it and Marty hasn't quite learned to fly his new ship...

    Seminal short story set in a near future, featuring a game show to the death.Originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1958

    The ship is lost, the computers fail, and the captain’s brain must be burned out to retrieve his subconscious memory of the map home. Once his niece picks up his skills via a thought transfer, she is destined to become one of the greatest Go-Captains in history...

    

    

    

    G. WodehouseWish Upon a Star • shortstory by Judith MerrilDream Girl • shortstory by Ron GoulartSomebody's Clothes - Somebody's Life • shortstory by Cornell WoolrichFar from Home • shortstory by Walter Tevis [as by Walter S. Tevis ]

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    He, a nuclear physicist, visiting a numerologist in the hopes of furthering his career--to be famous. Was he so desperate for advancement that he would resort to the superstition, or worse fakery, of a numerologist? It was at his wife urgings and now the numerologist has told him that by changing one letter in his name all his dreams would come true. This story originally appeared in Star Science Fiction magazine in 1958. It later appeared in the story collection, Nine Tomorrows, with the title "Spell My Name With an S". Asimov's frustration with people misspelling his name as "Azimov" was the germ of the idea to the story.

    Leif Svensen's neighbor, come to warn him that the farmers were going to take violent action against his dog for killing their livestock, mentioned that he'd seen an angel the night before. "Big blonde woman on a white horse, singing loud enough to raise the dead, about a hundred feet up in the air."Then, on his way to find his madcap twin, Leif met the stranger who knew his name and who spoke of "the Fimbulwinter already upon us." Fimbulwinter! The dreadful winter that in Norse mythology preceded Ragnarok - the final war between the gods and the giants! Fimbulwinter - which presaged the Day of the Giants.Leif Svensen and his brother were caught up in the destinies of a real but alien world. For if the giants triumphed, they would overrun Earth; and if the Aesir - the gods - won, Earth would be their footstool.

    The situation get stranger when his dog Towser finds a buried ship in the woods.- Winner of 1959 Hugo Award for Best NoveletteSubsequently published in a number of anthologies.