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When my mother made Raggedy Ann for me, Bessie's mother made a rag doll for her, for we two always played together. Bessie's doll was given the name of Raggedy Andy, and one of the two dolls was named after the other, so that their names would sound alike. They had faces just alike, I do not remember...

Now, if the animal we know as a cow were to evolve into a creature with near-human intelligence, so that she thought of herself as a “person” ...

Collected here are five adventures from Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master and Science Fiction Hall of Fame member, Frederik Pohl. Each of these stories will transport you to an imaginative place and time. Pohl was one of the best science fiction writers of all time and these are some of his best stories.

From the lamppost something was hanging. A shapeless dark bundle, swinging a little with the wind. Like a dummy of some sort. Loyce rolled down his window and peered out. What the hell was it? A display of some kind? Sometimes the Chamber of Commerce put up displays in the square.

“There were only twenty houses in Daleswood. A place you would scarcely have heard of. A village up top of the hills. When the war came there was no more than thirty men there between sixteen and forty-five. They all went.”

Anders was pretty sure he was going to die. No one had yet flown the new-style jet job and lived to tell the tale. A story both chilling and heart-warming that shows us how bravely the human equation can operate when the chips are stacked against it.

Everything seemed normal—except that one man, and the kitten, had vanished.

Smith admitted he had made an error involving a few murders—and a few thousand years. He was entitled to a sense of humor, though, even in the Ultroom!

“They offer you three jokes,” said the stranger, “which shall make all who hear them simply die of laughter.” I think my friend was reluctant then to have anything more to do with it, he wanted to go home; he said he didn’t want jokes.

To live different and exciting lives, all I had to do was sign here—and give up my own life!

The world of the new race was peaceful, comfortable, lovely—and completely static. Only Eric knew the haunting loneliness that had carried the old race to the stars, and he couldn’t communicate it, even if he had dared to!

Harry Harrison was an American science fiction author, best known for his character the ‘Stainless Steel Rat’ and for his novel ‘Make Room! Make Room!’. He wrote rip-roaring adventures with a lot of heart, toeing the line between science fiction adventure, humor, and satire. Featured here are three of his finest short stories, ‘The Repairman,’ ‘Navy Day,’ and ‘Toy Shop.’

It was a fine day at the beach for Purnie’s game—but his new friends played very rough!

Stark disaster to a brave lad in space may—to the mind that loves—be a tragedy pridefully concealed.