Anthology of great space opera. First paperback publication. Introduction, Foreword (Is Everything an Illusion?) and Afterword (Envoi) by the editor, and these stories: Zirn Left Unguarded, the Jenghik Palace in Flames, Jon Westerley Dead (1972) by Robert Sheckley; Honeymoon in Space (excerpt) [Stories of Other Worlds] (1975) by George Griffith; Tonight the Sky Will Fall (1952) by Daniel F. Galouye; "Precipices of Light That Went Forever Up . . . ." (1974) (essay) by Brian W. Aldiss; The Star of Life (1947) by Edmond Hamilton (Excerpt); After Ixmal (1962) by Jeff Sutton; Sea Change (1956) by Thomas N. Scortia; Exile Is Our Lot (1974) (essay) by Brian W. Aldiss; Colony (1953) by Philip K. Dick; The Sword of Rhiannon (Excerpt) (1949) by Leigh Brackett; All Summer in a Day (1954) by Ray Bradbury; The Mitr (1953) by Jack Vance; The Godlike Machines (1974) (essay) by Brian W. Aldiss; The Storm [Mixed Men] (1943) by A. E. van Vogt; The Paradox Men (1949) by Charles L. Harness; Time Fuze (1954) by Randall Garrett; The Last Question (1956) by Isaac Asimov. - from Amzon