(from the back cover)A glittering galaxy of brilliant stories that have never before been published in any book. Contributed by the great names in science fiction...ARTHUR C. CLARKE spins a futuristic parable of a timeless Rip Van Winkle who sleptMore(from the back cover)A glittering galaxy of brilliant stories that have never before been published in any book. Contributed by the great names in science fiction...ARTHUR C.
CLARKE spins a futuristic parable of a timeless Rip Van Winkle who slept through eons of moral evolution.THEODORE STURGEON writes of an author who found a strange new source of inspiration.A.E. van VOGT describes a time-traveler whose trip took a most unexpected turn.CLIFFORD SIMAK sends a surveying expedition into a world it had no instruments to measure.POUL ANDERSON takes a fresh look at reincarnation.LEIGH BRACKETT describes the odyssey of a wanderer who learned the secret of humanity from a non-human beauty.JOHN W.
CAMPBELL, Jr. justifies the machine age with incredibly chilling logic.