From today's most celebrated writers of science fiction comes this baker's dozen. Contents: Introduction • essay by Groff Conklin The War is Over • by Algis Budrys The Light • (1957) • by Poul Anderson Compassion Circuit • by John Wyndham Volpla • (1956) • by Wyman Guin Silence, Please! (Tales from the White Hart) • by Arthur C. Clarke Allegory • by William T. Powers Soap Opera • by Alan Nelson Shipping Clerk • by William Morrison Technological Retreat • by G.C. Edmondson The Analogues • by Damon Knight The Available Data on the Worp Reaction • by Lion Miller The Skills of Xanadu • by Theodore Sturgeon The Machine • by Richard Gehman
