CONTENTS: Possible to Rue; The Toaster; Quinquepedalian; Encounter; Phog; The Ghost Galaxies; Within the Cloud; The Life of the Stripe; In the Jaws of Danger; Beak by Beak; Getting Through University; In the Barn; Up Schist Crick; The Whole Truth; The Bridge; On the Uses of Torture; Small Mouth, Bad Taste; Wood You?; Hard Sell; Hurdle; Gone to the Dogs.

    Naked-hided, blunt toothed and blunt-fingered, Tully was the sole surviving member of his company -- a communicative, spacefaring species hitherto unknown -- and he was a prisoner of his discoverer/ captors the sadistic, treacherous kif, until his escape onto the hani ship The Pride of Chanur. Little did he know when he threw himself upon the mercy of The Pride and her crew that he put the entire hani species in jeopardy and imperiled the peace of the Compact itself. For the information this fugitive held could be the ruin or glory of any of the species at Meetpoint Station. Cover art by Michael Whelan

    Vintage paperback

    Little is as it used to be, and many are not what they seem.Kendrick Gallmon, survivor of an infamous research facility called the Maze, is trying to pick up the pieces of his life, even though he knows the Labrat augments are slowly killing him. Then one day his heart stops beating, forever, and a ghost urges him to return to the source of all his nightmares, a long-abandoned military complex filled with entirely real voices of the dead.

    Paperback 1st printing. Stories from a science fiction master. Includes an introduction from Brown’s wife, and these stories: Paradox Lost (1943); Puppet Show (1962); The Last Train (1950); It Didn't Happen (1963); Knock (1948); Obedience (1950); Ten Percenter (1963); Aelurophobe (1962); Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (1965, with Carl Onspaugh); Nothing Sirius (1944); The New One (1942); Double Standard (1963); Something Green (1951).