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This volume assembles landmark science‑fiction works, including Isaac Asimov’s *The Martian Way*, James Blish’s *Earthman, Come Home*, Algis Budrys’s *Rogue Moon*, Theodore Cogswell’s *The Spectre General*, E. M. Forster’s *The Machine Stops*, Frederik Pohl’s *The Midas Plague*, James H. Schmitz’s *The Witches of Karres*, T. L. Sherred’s *E for Effort*, Wilmar H. Shiras’s *In Hiding*, Clifford D. Simak’s *The Big Front Yard*, and Jack Vance’s *The Moon Moth*. Each piece exemplifies the imaginative breadth and literary quality that defined mid‑century American science fiction.
First publish date: 1973
Genre: Science Fiction/Space Opera
Authors: Ben Bova
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