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Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Fritz Leiber
• Boy Meets Dyevitza - (1962) - shortstory
• Star Mother - (1959) - shortstory
• L'Arc De Jeanne - (1966) - novelette
• On the River - (1965) - shortstory
• Neither Do They Reap - novelette
• To Fell a Tree - (1959) - novelette
• Wish Upon a Star - (1956) - novelette
• The Fugitives - shortstory
• The Pyramid Project - (1964) - novelette
• Thirty Days Had September - (1957) - shortstory
• Little Dog Gone - (1964) - novelette
• The Grown-Up People's Feet - (1955) - shortstory
• Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory - (1963) - novelette

In 1998, Jim Carpenter drove a time machine for a living, and his last job seemed simple enough: go back in time 74 million years and find out how a human skeleton got mixed up with dinosaur bones -- millions of years before that could possibly happen! But then Jim found two frightened, well-dressed kids hiding from a dinosaur. They claimed to be the prince and princess of Mars! Well, the boy claimed they were. The girl, it seemed, didn't speak to commoners...

Hugo Award nominated story. It originally appeared in Worlds of Tomorrow, February 1964. The story can also be found in the anthology The Best Science Fiction from Worlds of Tomorrow (1964), edited by Frederik Pohl. It is included in the collection A Glass of Stars (1968).

Table of Contents:

• Starfinder - interior artwork by uncredited
• 5 - The Man in the Moon - [Spacewhale] - (1969) - short story
• 26 - The Spacewhale Graveyard - [Spacewhale] - short story (variant of Starscape with Frieze of Dreams 1970)
• 48 - Areopagus - [Spacewhale] - short story (variant of Abyss of Tartarus 1971)
• 67 - Flotsam - [Spacewhale] - short story
• 78 - Beneath the Painted Ocean - [Spacewhale] - short story (variant of "The Mindanao Deep")
• 95 - Enter Ciely - [Spacewhale] - short story (variant of The Star Eel 1977)
• 113 - The Haute Bourgeoisie - [Spacewhale] - (1980) - novelette
• 137 - The Rose - [Spacewhale] - short story
• 148 - Spacewhale, Space-Time - [Spacewhale] - short story
• 165 - In the Crypt - [Spacewhale] - short story
• 186 - Jetsam - [Spacewhale] - short story
• 200 - The Construction Company - [Spacewhale] - short story

It was the last tree on a lush world where otherwise only grain grew. It was huge and it was dying. To rid the world of the dying giant would take more than just two men with chain saws. So the people of New America called on TreeCo, interstellar tree-removal service.

They sent him into the past to kidnap and bring back Sheherazade, the famous narrator of the Thousand and One Nights. But when he had grabbed a lovely lady out of the Sultan's harem and scooted away on his "magic carpet" time machine he discovered that he had muffed it -- for she was the Vizier's second daughter -- Sheherazade's kid sister!

He thought he could rectify the mistake before going back to the 21st Century -- but it was already to late. Because the ifrits were on his trail, Ali Baba had jumped aboard, and the enchanted Castle of Brass awaited his arrival with ghoulish glee.

It's a wonderful romp through time and legend with the kid sister pulling marvels out of her hair faster than you could pull the cork on a djinn bottle!

The worlds of Robert F. Young are unlike any others, and they are all stamped with the hallmark of excellence that is distinctively his own. Some of these worlds are strange and alien, distant in time and space; some are as familiar as your own back yard -- so close you can reach out and touch them. But be careful! They all contain unlooked-for surprises: what you expect to happen never does. These are tales of the unexpected.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The Worlds of Robert F. Young) - (1965) - essay by Avram Davidson
• The Girl Who Made Time Stop - (1961) - short story
• Added Inducement - (1957) - short story
• Hopsoil - (1961) - short story
• Flying Pan - (1956) - short story
• Emily and the Bards Sublime - [Poetic Androids] - (1956) - short story
• The Dandelion Girl - (1961) - short story
• The Stars Are Calling, Mr. Keats - (1959) - short story
• Goddess in Granite - (1957) - novelette
• Promised Planet - (1955) - short story
• Romance in a Twenty-First Century Used-Car Lot - (1960) - novelette
• The Courts of Jamshyd - (1957) - short story
• Production Problem - (1959) - short story
• Little Red Schoolhouse - (1956) - short story
• Written in the Stars - (1957) - short story
• A Drink of Darkness - (1962) - short story
• Your Ghost Will Walk... - [Poetic Androids] - (1957) - short story