You visit a world where Robots strain to remember the existence of the
Men who created them; hear the tantalizingly brief report of a man who
returns from a trip to the future; see the snake-armed Thing that
emerges from the minds of the people who conjure it. You meet a souvenir
hunter in the Thirtieth Century and a schoolgirl who tries to cope with
the teaching methods of the Twenty-second Century.
You share the terror
of an astronaut in a "haunted" space suit and the dilemma of a wife
whose husband knows a common chemical formula for destroying the earth.
In short, you feel the impact, the originality, and the uncanny
atmosphere created by these science fiction experts not once-- but 50
times. 50 Short Science Fiction Tales have been selected
for their concise writing, and for punch lines that leave the reader
"surprised, shocked, and delighted at the final sentence." According to
the editors, another important aspect of this literary form is
"evocation of a background differing from our own." Consequently, though
some of the stories are just a page long, the reading experience is
always excitingly unique.
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