Who but Bradbury could imagine the playroom in which children's fantasies become real enough to kill? The beautiful white suit that turns six down-and-out Chicanos into their ideal selves? Only Bradbury could make us identify with a man who lives in terror of his own skeleton. And if a generic science fiction writer might describe a spaceship landing on Mars, only Bradbury can tell us how the Martians see it--and the dreamlike visitors from Planet Earth.

    Paul J. Finnegan, also from our contemporary world). Separately and together, the two heroes contend against the Lords who rule the separate universes, of which the marvelous many-leveled World of Tiers is the center. Mythological and legendary creatures and characters abound: centaurs and harpies, mermaids and Indians, aliens and beautiful women.

    ComicsContents:· Foreword · fw · There Was an Old Woman · ss Weird Tales Jul ’44 · The Screaming Woman · ss Today May 27 ’51 · Touch and Go! · ss Detective Book Magazine Nov ’48; ; as “The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl”, EQMM Jan ’53 · The Small Assassin · ss Dime Mystery Magazine Nov ’46 · The Handler · ss Weird Tales Jan ’47 · The Lake · ss Weird Tales May ’44 · The Coffin [“Wake for the Living”] · ss Dime Mystery Magazine Sep ’47 · Let’s Play “Poison” · ss Weird Tales Nov ’46

    The same cover was used for all editions and so we have a single record on Goodreads.This is omnibus and collection of two previously published novels and 16 short stories. The novels are Prelude to Space (1951) and The Sands of Mars (1951). There are eight humorous short stories from Clarke's Tales from the White Hart collection:• Big Game Hunt (1956)• Critical Mass (1949)• The Ultimate Melody (1957)• Moving Spirit (1957)• The Man Who Ploughed the Sea (1957)• Cold War (1957)• What Goes Up (1956)• Trouble with the Natives (1951 - This did not appear in Tales from the White Hart but one of the locations in this story is the White Hart bar)There are also eight serious short stories:• A Walk in the Dark (1950)• The Forgotten Enemy (1948)• The Parasite (1953)• The Curse (1946)• The Possessed (1953)• The Awakening (1942)• Exile of the Eons (1950)• Second Dawn (1951)

    Clarke Machine Made • (1951) • shortstory by J. T. McIntosh Trip One • (1949) • shortstory by Edward Grendon Venus Is a Man's World • (1951) • novelette by William Tenn Good-Bye, Ilha! • (1952) • shortstory by Laurence Manning Misbegotten Missionary • (1950) • shortstory by Isaac Asimov (aka Green Patches)The Ethical Equations • (1945) • shortstory by Murray Leinster Misfit • (1939) • novelette by Robert A. Heinlein Genius • (1948) • novelette by Poul Anderson Basic Right • (1958) • novelette by Eric Frank Russell