Nineteen Science Fiction Short Stories

Nineteen stories from the golden age of the science fiction magazines, each one a compact universe of wonder, terror, and strange possibility. James Harmon wrote for Galaxy and Worlds of If when those publications demanded both brain and pulse, and this collection captures him at his most inventive: a galactic con man whose greatest scam gets unexpectedly real, a time traveler who can't stop rewriting his own mistakes, futures where humanity has evolved in directions no one expected. The stories range from laugh-out-loud Satire to quiet, devastating speculation about what we might become. Harmon has a gift for theending that sticks with you long after the page is turned, the kind of SF that makes you see your own world differently. This is science fiction doing what it does best: taking a wild idea and using it to illuminate something true about being human.