feel things that no flesh-and-blood creature has ever felt. He can create visions so compelling that they literally seem to dance before your eyes. He can push you back to the beginnings of time and then suddenly, without warning, thrust you forward t the outmost limits of the future. He can make you so much a part of his strange worlds that you literally scream to get out.Seventeen breathtaking stories by the master of the weird and wonderful, including the space-age classic, FROST AND FIRE.

    Here are twenty-three award-winning stories for the years 1955 to 1970, each with an introduction by Isaac Asimov.All the stories are unusual and contain that special something that marks them as a prize winners. Highly original and provocative, they examine the mystery of existence and the very real possibilities that lie within the realm of future experience. And together they provide a lavish treat of the very best writing chosen by the most prominent people in the field - truly superior science fiction.Contents:The Darfsteller by Walter M. Miller, Jr.Allamagoosa by Eric Frank RussellExploration Team by Murray LeinsterThe Star by Arthur C. ClarkeOr All the Seas with Oysters by Avram DavidsonThe Big Front Yard by Clifford D. SimakThe Hell-Bound Train by Robert BlochFlowers for Algernon by Daniel KeyesThe Longest Voyage by Poul AndersonThe Dragon Masters by Jack VanceNo Truce with Kings by Poul AndersonSoldier, Ask Not by Gordon R. Dickson"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman by Harlan EllisonThe Last Castle by Jack VanceNeutron Star by Larry NivenWeyr Search by Anne McCaffreyRiders of the Purple Wage by Philip Jose FarmerGonna Roll the Bones by Fritz LieberI Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream by Harlan EllisonNightwings by Robert SilverbergThe Sharing of Flesh by Poul AndersonThe Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World by Harlan EllisonTime Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones by Samuel R. Delany

    Their charter was for a Class III uninhabited planet, which Zarathustra was, and it meant they owned the planet lock stock and barrel. They exploited it, developed it and reaped the huge profits from it without interference from the Colonial Government. Then Jack Holloway, a sunstone prospector, appeared on the scene with his family of Fuzzies and the passionate conviction that they were not cute animals but little people.

    Each section has a different atmosphere and habitat to cater for the many different species.. all the problems of the staff and patients are in this book.. how to design a spacesuit for a surgeon with eight legs?

    Under his careful watch, the "Twelves" come to life, each possessing a name and a distinct personality. As Max soon learns, they share a history filled with incident and adventure -- all an imaginative legacy of the famous Brontës (Branwell, Charlotte, Emily, Anne), who were the soldiers' original owners. In its mix of invention, excitement, character, and literary history, The Return of the Twelves occupies a rare place in children's literature. Its gripping narrative and engaging figures make it perfect for young readers of ten and up.

    This edition contains an Introduction written for the 1974 edition and updated for the 1983 edition. This collection was among Ellison's first and it shows a writer with a wide-ranging imagination, ferocious creative energy, devastating wit and an eye for the wonderful and terrifying and tragic. Among the gems are "All The Sounds of Fear", "The Sky is Burning", "The Very Last Day of a Good Woman" and "In Lonely Lands". Though they stand tall on their own merits they also point the way to the sublime stories that followed soon after and continue to come even now, more than forty years later.

    Soon all of the children in the village have learned, and are given one precious summer of flight and freedom, although they must struggle to keep their outings secret.

    Three of the classic books from the Mars series - Thuvia, Maid of Mars, The Chessmen of Mars & The Master Mind of Mars.

    Contents:Case and the Dreamer (1973)If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister? (1967)When You Care, When You Love (1962)