Five Fantastic Stories Author:Algis Budrys, Frank Herbert, Robert Sheckley, Kurt Vonnegut, Jamie Wild Collected here are Five Fantastic science fiction stories by Algis Budrys, Frank Herbert, Robert Sheckley, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and Jamie Wild. — The Stoker and the Stars / Algis Budrys: When you've had your ears pinned back in a bowknot, it's sometimes hard to remember that an intelligent people has no re... more »spect for a whipped enemy... but does for a fairly beaten enemy.
Missing Link / Frank Herbert,: The Romantics used to say that the eyes were the windows of the Soul. A good Alien Xenologist might not put it quite so poetically... but he can, if he's sharp, read a lot in the look of an eye!
Bad Medicine / Robert Sheckley: Elwood Caswell walked rapidly down Broadway with a loaded revolver hidden in his coat pocket. He didn't want to use the weapon, but feared he might anyhow. This was a justifiable assumption, for Caswell was a homicidal maniac.
BR02B / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: Got a problem? Just pick up the phone. It solved them all -- and all the same way!
The Cyber Way / Jamie Wild [as by Warren Lapine].: He was looking for a privacy his strange personality needed. And -- never quite seemed to achieve it. All his efforts were, somehow -- great triumphs of the race, and great failures for him!"« less