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Have you ever stopped to wonder why the world is eternally torn by war? Why men of goodwill, seeking only peace, are driven relentlessly to further disaster? In a future society, where India rules the globe and everyone chases the mighty rupee, the First Atomic War has just ended. Already the Second is clearly building. People shrug. War is man's nature, they think. And that's what newspaper reporter Dake Lorin thinks, too... until he becomes aware of the aliens living among us and discovers their sinister purpose--as well as the strange and monstrous explanation for humankind's seemingly limitless capacity for violence and destruction.

Table of Contents:

• 9 - Introduction (Other Times, Other Worlds) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• 15 - The Mechanical Answer
• 35 - Dance of a New World
• 51 - Ring Around the Redhead
• 75 - A Child Is Crying
• 91 - Flaw
• 101 - But Not to Dream
• 113 - The Miniature
• 127 - Spectator Sport
• 135 - Half-Past Eternity
• 193 - The Big Contest
• 203 - Susceptibility
• 215 - Common Denominator
• 227 - Game for Blondes
• 239 - Labor Supply
• 249 - The Legend of Joe Lee
• 263 - The Annex
• 279 - Afterword (Other Times, Other Worlds) - essay by John D. MacDonald
• 283 - Bibliography (Other Times, Other Worlds) - essay by June Moffatt and Len Moffatt

They are the Watchers: pale laboratory creatures living in a remote, sealed-off world. Their game, their religion, their release is to dream, and their dreams carry across the galaxy to lodge in the minds of the inhabitants of another world: the planet Earth. But as the human race approaches a dream of their own--traveling beyond their own planet to other worlds--the Watchers step in. For escape from Earth is an impossible dream, one that the Watchers will go to any length to destroy.

To ever-loyal Kirby Winter, multimillionaire Uncle Omar left nothing -- nothing but a gold watch and a sealed letter to be opened in one year. But Kirby is destined to inherit the magical power to freeze time in its tracks. Power like that promises unlimited wealth, wealth that can't buy love, but does make a down payment on a lot of deadly trouble. In a universe without time, can Kirby stay one step ahead?