About this book
Twelve science fiction stories which explore the complexities and limitations of the human mind as it responds to unusual situations, bizarre societies, and unorthodox problems. Includes a brief analysis of each story.
It's a Good Life - short story by Jerome Bixby
[The Sound Machine](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8318678W) - short story by Roald Dahl
Hallucination Orbit - novelette by J. T. McIntosh
The Winner - short story by Donald E. Westlake
A Rose by Other Name ... - short story by Christopher Anvil (variant of A Rose By Other Name 1959)
The Man Who Never Forgot - short story by Robert Silverberg
Runaround - novelette by Isaac Asimov
Absalom - short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner]
Wings Out of Shadow - novelette by Fred Saberhagen
In Case of Fire - short story by Randall Garrett
What Friends Are For - short story by John Brunner
The Drivers - short story by Edward W. Ludwig
Subjects
American Science fictionPsychologyChildren's stories, AmericanJuvenile fictionChildren's stories, EnglishFictionScience fictionEnglish Science fictionShort storiesScience fiction, history and criticism