A collection containing:Rule Golden (1954)Natural State (1954)Double Meaning (1953)The Earth Quarter (expanded) (1970, novel, aka The Sun Saboteurs, 1961)The Dying Man (1957)

A collection of cutting-edge SF stories from one of the grand masters of science fiction, Rule GoldenTo protect the galaxy, Aza-Kra came from a world where violence and cruelty ceased to exist. To him, Earth was a jungle.The Dying ManIn a century that holds the secret of immortality, Claire and Dio find love impossible - until Dio discovers he is mortal.Natural StateAD 2064. Were the cities doomed? Were the plants and animals and people who lived outside more efficient than any machine that could be built? Alvah Gustad, actor and patriot, leaves New York for an unusual mission.

A short story (described as a short noverl) whch was reworked to become the novel Mind Switch and then retitled as The Other Foot

As a top-flight newspaper reporter he traveled, met beautiful girls, had enough money and plenty of fun. Then one day he visited the hiped recently captured on Brecht’s Planet and kept as a curiosity in the zoo. Suddenly the earth trembled, the world went black... and when he awoke he was inside the cage, scrabbling against the bars with three-fingered, scaly green hands....  

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Contains:~Thurber, J. The greatest man in the world. Dahl, R. The way up to heaven. Nash, O. The purist. Farmer, P. J. Father's in the basement. Maugham, W. S. Miss Thompson. Kanin, G. The damnedest thing. Collier, J. De mortuis. Saki. Tobermory. Runyon, D. Undertaker song. Rice, J. The idol of the flies. Branson, R. The red-headed murderess. Atkinson, H. The language of flowers. Johnson, N. Ashes to ashes. Babel, I. A letter. Reed, K. Winter.

McNulty's Disease has escaped the Sea Venture and is now epidemic on land. The disease kills only a few of its victims...but no one knows what long-term effects it has on those who survive. For the public's safety, the U.S. government sets up a giant internment camp on the old CV herself, and attempts to find as many survivors as possible to keep safely on board the ship. Fortunately, Julie Prescott has a most resourceful and clever husband (he used to be a high-priced hired killer) who doesn't want his wife locked up forever. So he sets himself up against the entire government bureaucracy - with remarkable results.

Epub (mine)INCLUDES: A selection from The Ideal (excerpt, 1935) by Stanley G. Weinbaum; Moxon's Master by Ambrose Bierce; Reason by Isaac Asimov; But Who Can Replace a Man? by Brian W. Aldiss; A selection from The Time Machine by H. G. Wells; Of Time and Third Avenue by Alfred Bester; Sail On! Sail On! by Philip Jose Farmer; A selection from Worlds of the Imperium by Keith Laumer; The Business, As Usual by Mack Reynolds; What's It Like Out There? by Edmond Hamilton; Sky Lift by Robert A. Heinlein; The Star by Arthur C. Clarke; The Crystal Egg by H. G. Wells; The Wind People by Marion Zimmer Bradley; Unhuman Sacrifice by Katherine Maclean; What Was It? by Fitz-James O'Brien; The First Days of May by Claude Veillot; Day of Succession by Theodore L. Thomas; Angel's Egg by Edgar Pangborn; Another World by J. H. Rosny Aine; A selection from Odd John by Olaf Stapledon; Call Me Joe by Poul Anderson; From the London Times of 1904 by Mark Twain; A selection from Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne; You Are With It! by Will Stanton; Cease Fire by Frank Herbert.

Destiny reached out a hand to Algernon Weaver-but he was a timid man, at first. But on the strange world of Terranova, there was much to be learned-of destiny, and other things....

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MASTERS OF EVOLUTION: ~ ~~ ~ Alvah Gustad was typical of New York City's twenty million citizens. He took for granted such luxuries as synthetic foods and robot-servants, and he knew beyond a doubt that the Cities offered the only acceptable way of life for civilized man. ~ ~~ ~ But roaming the vast plains between the continent's five Cities, ever growing and expanding, were the dreaded tribes of Muckfeet. In direct antithesis to the City dwellers, these illiterate savages actually GREW food and RAISED animals. And how they smelled! It was so bad that Alvah could feel his stomach churn at the mere mention of their name. ~ ~~ ~ There was one thing in the Muckfoot territory that the Cities did need, though-metal ores. And Alvah, faced with the job of liason to the tribes around New York, had to somehow make his patriotism outweigh his nausea. If he succeeded, the Cities would be monuments to eternity; if he failed - -