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This novelette originally appeared in Galaxy Science Fiction, January 1956. It can also be found in the anthologies:

• The World That Couldn't Be and 8 Other Novelets from Galaxy (1959), edited by H. L. Gold
• Beyond Tomorrow (1965), edited by Damon Knight
• Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology (1978), edited by Patricia Warrick, Martin H, Greenberg and Joseph Olander
• Perilous Planets (1978), edited by Brian W. Aldiss
• The Science Fictional Solar System (1979), edited by Charles G. Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg and Isaac Asimov
• The Great SF Stories 18 (1956) (1988), edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Isaac Asimov

The story is included in the collection Tiger by the Tail and Other Science Fiction Stories (1961).

Table of Contents:

• 7 - Prologue (Psi High and Others)
• 11 - The Martyr
• 70 - Psi High
• 122 - Mirror, Mirror
• 156 - Epilogue (Psi High and Others)

The underground people of Earth were united in terror and desperation against what they considered a frightful threat from the skies. They had sent a mighty armada into space, rushing in lethal orbit toward Mars. The Spacers --- still really Earthmen themselves --- were poised for the counter-blow. The great fleet at Asteroid Central had sufficient warheads to reduce Earth to a cinder. But there was a third force, watching...

Dal Timgar had always wanted to be a doctor. As a Garvian and the first non-human to study medicine on Hospital Earth, he must face enormous adversity from classmates, professors, and some of the highest ranking physicians on all of Earth. Will his efforts be enough to earn him the Silver Star of a Star Surgeon?

In 2014 seventeen-year-old Billy Gimp risks great danger as a procurer of illegal medical supplies for a skilled surgeon determined to provide health care for people considered unqualified for legal medical aid.

Table of Contents:

• Brightside Crossing - (1956) - novelette
• The Coffin Cure - (1957) - short story
• Nightmare Brother - (1953) - novelette
• Family Resemblance - (1953) - short story
• Love Thy Vimp - (1952) - short story
• Tiger by the Tail - (1951) - short story
• Letter of the Law - (1954) - short story
• The Native Soil - (1957) - short story
• PRoblem - (1956) - short story

Rocket to Limbo: Lars Heldrigsson was fresh out of the Colonial Service Academy and his first assignment was a milk-run to Vega aboard the *Ganymede. Not a very exciting trip, except that the ship's commander, Walter Fox, had explored and opened more new colony-worlds than any other man.

But the *Ganymede* had hardly blasted off before Lars discovered that not all the crew shared his admiration of their chief. Rumors circulated, rumblings of mutiny were heard, and the news finally broke that they weren't going to Vega at all, but to Wolf IV, the one planet from which no man had returned alive!

Echo in the Skull: Sally Ercott is a disintegrating personality. She finds herself living in filth, abject squalor, with vague memories of a clean, happy, prosperous life which has somehow slipped away.

But, superimposed on those memories are OTHER lives recalled; lives on planets alien beyond comprehension. Lives ended in horror as each world was destroyed by a malignant alien, slimy and ugly, demanding sacrifice. What is happening to this girl's mind?

The Last Planet is the first paperback edition of the novel originally (and subsequently) published as Star Rangers. A starship from a decaying Galactic empire, with a mixed human-alien crew, is exploring the outer fringes of the Milky Way. A crash-landing on an apparently empty planet marks the end of the voyage. With no hope of repairing the vessel, the surviving crewmen must plan their future, allot their resources, and explore all avenues for a new life on this world.

A Man Obsessed is the story of a vengeance hunt in a nightmarish future when all medical practice is firmly in the control of the Government. It's both a psychological tale of a man deteriorating from the effects of dedicating his life to a (perhaps) foolish pursuit of one man, and a not-so-pretty look at the ultimate results of a socialized medicine policy.

The tenacious Colonel Benedict and his son, Tuck, are sent to Titan, Saturn's fifth moon, to investigate reports of smuggling. Soon they discover that the less-than-friendly colony is hiding much more than just a smuggler. Together they dig up a scandalous case of interstellar sabotage and what the colonists reverently refer to as "THE BIG SECRET," which could destroy Earth's power supply - forever.

Can the Colonel and Tuck resolve an age-old dispute between the Titan colonists and Earthly authorities before the clock runs out? Mankinds fate depends on it...