Odysseys of the imagination in other worlds than ours
Tales of time, space and humanity

"I would hardly claim to be a child of the century. But I was certainly a child of science fiction. I had been a fan, I had been a collector, I had started a writing career by writing science fiction. and I had progressed (or retrogressed, depending on your point of view) to "mainstream" fiction... There is, I sometimes think, a certain loneliness about science fiction readers.

But there was a flip side to that coin, and there still is. We believed passionately in the The Future. We lived for it, we speculated about it, some of us wrote about it. And maybe that's the real contribution of science fiction, over and above offering a few hours of enjoyable reading.

We believe in the future. We really think there's going to be one." [Frank M. Robinson]

CONTENTS
1. The Maze (1950)
2. The Reluctant Heroes (1951)
3. The Fire and the Sword (1951)
4. The Santa Claus Planet (1951)
5. The Hunting Season (1951)
6. The Wreck of the Ship John B. (1967)
7. "East Wind, West Wind" (1972)
8. A Life in the Day of... (1969)
9. Downhill All the Way (1974)