Newton is an extraterrestrial who goes to Earth on a desperate mission of mercy. But instead of aid, Newton discovers loneliness and despair that ultimately ends in tragedy.

    But what his neighbors must never know is that, inside his unchanging house, he meets with a host of unimaginable friends from the farthest stars.More than a hundred years before, an alien named Ulysses had recruited Enoch as the keeper of Earth's only galactic transfer station. Now, as Enoch studies the progress of Earth and tends the tanks where the aliens appear, the charts he made indicate his world is doomed to destruction. His alien friends can only offer help that seems worse than the dreaded disaster. Then he discovers the horror that lies across the galaxy...

    THE STRANGEST MANHUNT IN INTERSTELLAR HISTORY: when the three mutated men known as The Furies searched across the galaxy for Victor Corgo, captain of the Wallaby, ex-hero of Interstel, now traitor to mankind.THE PARTY THAT LASTED FOREVER: where the ultra-rich members of "The Set" reveled for a night, then slept for years, then partied again, and slept again...and all the while they traveled into a more and more alien future in which they were increasingly lost.THE LEVIATHAN OF VENUS: which had destroyed every Earth expedition sent to capture it...but still one man had to risk his life in a final desperate attempt.THE LAST OF THE ANCIENT MARTIANS: who was an awesomely lovely girl with a mission she could not fulfill...and a secret for the future...Here are four great stories of wonder and adventure, beauty and danger in the stars, by today's most exciting writer of science fiction.Four novelettes including:The FuriesThe Graveyard HeartThe Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His MouthA Rose for Ecclesiastes Introduction by Theodore Sturgeon.

    The adventures of CDC (Corps Diplomatique Terra) diplomat Jame Retief loom large in six highly classified missions where brain and brawn save land and lives despite red-tape bound superiors amid conspiracy and conflct across alien planets - guaranteed astounding, amazing, startling, galactic, weird, and thrillingly wonderful.1 Protocol2 Sealed Orders3 Cultural Exchange4 Aide Memoire5 Policy6 Palace Revolution

    The group includes a forward-thinking millionaire and his family, a levelheaded Jewish scientist, a playboy, an aging African American servant and his daughter, a gigolo and the glamorous woman who has been his mistress, a beautiful Chinese girl, a young meter reader, two children, and a Japanese engineer. Fully aware of the outcome of the war that had raged briefly above them, the survivors seethe with hatred, fall into depression over their losses, rise to moments of superhuman bravery, and lapse into behavior that reflects their human weaknesses. Philip Wylie mercilessly predicts the inevitable end of a world that continues to function as selfishly and as barbarously as our own.

    The first, Tales from the Kingdom of Lailonia, is set in a fictional land. Each story illustrates some aspect of human inability to come to terms with imperfection, infinitude, history, and nature. The second, The Key to Heaven, is a collection of seventeen biblical tales from the Old Testament told in such a way that the story and the moral play off each other to illustrate political, moral, or existential foibles and follies.

    With alternating interior monologues, the author conjures up the members of the Glace family: Vera, the mother who has willed herself sightless; Erlene, the daughter, who has stopped speaking; and Edward, the husband who abandons his family to make a genealogical study of a family in a distant land. Beyond this is a mind that has burst the confines of everyday individual consciousness and invented its own tormented reality.

    published by the Berkley Pub. Corp., New York.Stories Included:1. No, No, Not Rogov!2. The Lady Who Sailed The Soul3. Scanners Live In Vain4. The Game Of Rat And Dragon5. The Burning Of The Brain6. Golden The Ship Was - Oh! Oh! Oh!7. Alpha Ralpha Boulevard8. Mark Elf

    Sprague De Camp.Contains stories by Poul Anderson, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Henry Kuttner, Lord Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith, C. L. Moore, and Fritz Leiber.Contents:7 · Introduction: Heroic Fantasy · L. Sprague de Camp · in 11 · The Valor of Cappen Varra [Cappen Varra] · Poul Anderson · ss Fantastic Universe Jan ’57 27 · Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller · Lord Dunsany · ss The Sketch Jan 11 ’11 33 · Shadows in the Moonlight [Conan] · Robert E. Howard · nv Weird Tales Apr ’34 67 · The Citadel of Darkness [Prince Raynor] · Henry Kuttner · nv Strange Stories Aug ’39 97 · When the Sea-King’s Away [Fafhrd & Gray Mouser] · Fritz Leiber · nv Fantastic May ’60 123 · The Doom That Came to Sarnath [revised from The Slot Jun ’20] · H. P. Lovecraft · ss Weird Tales Jun ’38 133 · Hellsgarde [Jirel of Joiry] · C. L. Moore · nv Weird Tales Apr ’39 169 · The Testament of Athammaus · Clark Ashton Smith · ss Weird Tales Oct ’32