Contents:Introduction · Terry Carr Ill Met in Lankhmar [Fafhrd & Gray Mouser] · Fritz Leiber Slow Sculpture · Theodore Sturgeon The Missing Man [Rescue Squad] · Katherine MacLean The Queen of Air and Darkness · Poul Anderson Good News from the Vatican · Robert Silverberg A Meeting with Medusa · A...
Why had Timothy Paul’s teacher sent him for examination? “I don’t know, myself, that there’s really anything wrong with Tim,” Miss Page had told Dr. Welles. “He seems perfectly normal. He’s rather quiet as a rule, doesn’t volunteer answers in class or anything of that sort...
It was a new town, only a few months old, but the gleaming alloys of the buildings were already coated with dirt and pitted by the frequent dust storms that swept through. Garbage littered the alleys; its odor was strange but still foul in the alien atmosphere. The small, darting creatures were h...