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A unique imagination illuminates all of William Tenn's work. In this remarkable collection of his short stories, he ranges from the hilarious to the serious, demonstrating vividly his gift for making any dimension of reality as real and immediate as your own street. There are four or five amazing hours of reading for you in this book.

Giant, technologically superior aliens have conquered Earth, but humankind survives - even flourishes in a way. Men and women live, like mice, in burrows in the massive walls of the huge homes of the aliens, and scurry about under their feet, stealing from them. A complex social and religious order has evolved, with women preserving knowledge and working as healers, and men serving as warriors and thieves. For the aliens, men and women are just a nuisance, nothing more than vermin. Which, ironically, may just be humankind's strength and point the way forward.

Originally published in 1956, this collection of early gems won acclaim from reviewers all over the country, richly deserving a place as one of six simultaneously published volumes celebrating William Tenn. The Human Angle contains the following: "Project Hush", "The Discovery of Morniel Mathaway", "Wednesday's Child, Party of the Two Parts", "The Flat-Eyed Monster", "The Human Angle" and "A Man of Family".

Table of Contents:

• Project Hush - (1954)
• The Discovery of Morniel Mathaway - (1955)
• Wednesday's Child - (1956)
• The Servant Problem - (1955)
• Party of the Two Parts - (1954)
• The Flat-Eyed Monster - (1955)
• The Human Angle - (1948)
• A Man of Family

Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1965. The story can aslo be found in the anthology Once and Future Tales from the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1968) edited by Edward L. Ferman. It is included in the collections The Wooden Star (1968) and Immodest Proposals (2001).

The Seven Sexes is almost entirely dedicated to the cynicism of nature's prime conman, homo sapiens, in such a variety of stories that it is difficult to believe they all derive from the same source, capped by a hilarious piece of nonsense in which a has-been producer cons the seven variable sexes of Venus into starring in a "typical" Hollywood love epic - with results that defy description.

Contents:

• Child's Play - (1947)
• The Malted Milk Monster - (1959)
• Errand Boy - (1947)
• The House Dutiful - (1948)
• Mistress Sary - (1947)
• Sanctuary - (1957)
• Venus and the Seven Sexes - (1949)
• Bernie the Faust - (1963)

This William Tenn collection includes:

• Alexander the Bait - (1946)
• The Last Bounce - (1950)
• She Only Goes Out at Night... - (1956)
• My Mother Was a Witch - (1966)
• The Jester - (1951)
• Confusion Cargo - (1948)
• Venus Is a Man's World - (1951)
• Consulate - (1948)
• The Lemon-Green Spaghetti-Loud Dynamite-Dribble Day - (1967)

THE WOODEN STAR comes close to being a pacifist collection, the general theme being an ironic and sometimes bitter comment on man's stupidity to man. But Tenn's humor is irrepressible and bursts forth in a joyous political satire on the war of hte sexes.

Contents:

• Generation of Noah - (1951)
• Brooklyn Project - (1948)
• The Dark Star - (1957)
• Null-P - (1951)
• Eastward Ho! - (1958)
• The Deserter - (1953)
• Betelgeuse Bridge - (1951)
• "Will You Walk a Little Faster" - (1951)
• It Ends with a Flicker - (1956)
• Lisbon Cubed - (1958)
• The Masculinist Revolt - (1965)

William Tenn's third collection, including:

• Firewater - (1952 novella)
• Time in Advance - (1956 novelette)
• The Sickness - (1955 novelette)
• Winthrop Was Stubborn - (1957 novella)

For the William Tenn devotees who have long awaited paperback publication of his novels--here is one of his most famous:

A LAMP FOR MEDUSA mythology or reality? Gods... or leering mortals? Life... or death?

One of the newer writers--and one to be watched--He's already garnered a loyal following with his novel, STAR GLADIATOR.

THE PLAYERS OF HELL an immortal... with a mission; a spellmaster... greedy for power; a thief... with strength and cunning

But what strength, what power could conquer the forces of magic?

This book is the first volume of a two-book project that will bring back into print all of the science fiction and fantasy of William Tenn. This first volume, Immodest Proposals, contains the majority of William Tenn's short science fiction. It includes such classic stories as "Child's Play," "Time in Advance," "Down Among the Dead Men," and "On Venus, Have We Got a Rabbi."

Table of Contents:

• Bernie the Scheherazade - essay by Connie Willis
• Firewater - (1952)
• Lisbon Cubed - (1958)
• The Ghost Standard - (1994)
• The Flat-Eyed Monster - (1955)
• The Deserter - (1953)
• Venus and the Seven Sexes - (1949)
• Party of the Two Parts - (1954)
• The Liberation of Earth - (1953)
• Eastward Ho! - (1958)
• Null-P - (1951)
• The Masculinist Revolt - (1965)
• Brooklyn Project - (1948)
• Child's Play - (1947)
• Wednesday's Child - (1956)
• My Mother Was a Witch - (1966)
• The Lemon-Green Spaghetti-Loud Dynamite-Dribble Day - (1967)
• The Tenants - (1954)
• Generation of Noah - (1951)
• Down Among the Dead Men - (1954)
• Time in Advance - (1956)
• The Sickness - (1955)
• The Servant Problem - (1955)
• A Man of Family - (1956)
• The Jester - (1951)
• Project Hush - (1954)
• Winthrop Was Stubborn - (1957)
• The Dark Star - (1957)
• Consulate - (1948)
• The Last Bounce - (1950)
• Venus Is a Man's World - (1951)
• Alexander the Bait - (1946)
• The Custodian - (1953)
• On Venus, Have We Got a Rabbi - (1974)

Here Comes Civilization contains the novel Of Men and Monsters, as well as all of the short science fiction that was not included in the companion to this volume, Immodest Proposals. It includes such classic stories as "Bernie the Faust," "The Malted Milk Monster," and "The Discovery of Morniel Mathaway." Also included are several stories that have not been reprinted since their initial magazine publications as well as the short novel A Lamp for Medusa.

Table of Contents:

• Here Comes Civilization: Introduction - (2001) - essay by Robert Silverberg
• Bernie the Faust - (1963)
• Betelgeuse Bridge - (1951)
• "Will You Walk a Little Faster" - (1951)
• The House Dutiful - (1948)
• There Were People on Bikini, There Were People on Attu - (1983)
• She Only Goes Out at Night... - (1956)
• Mistress Sary - (1947)
• The Malted Milk Monster - (1959)
• The Human Angle - (1948)
• Everybody Loves Irving Bommer - (1951)
• A Matter of Frequency - (1951)
• The Ionian Cycle - (1948)
• Hallock's Madness - (1951)
• Ricardo's Virus - (1953)
• The Puzzle of Priipiirii - (1950)
• Dud - (1948)
• Confusion Cargo - (1948)
• The Discovery of Morniel Mathaway - (1955)
• Sanctuary - (1957)
• Me, Myself, and I - (1947)
• It Ends with a Flicker - (1956)
• The Girl with Some Kind of Past. And George. - (1993)
• Flirgleflip - (1950)
• Errand Boy - (1947)
• A Lamp for Medusa - (1951)
• On the Fiction in Science Fiction - (1954) - essay by William Tenn
• Of Men and Monsters - (1968) - novel by William Tenn
• Afterword: William Tenn: The Swiftest Tortoise - (2001) - essay by George Zebrowski