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