What does the future hold in store for the human race? Aliens fromdistant galaxies, telepathic horror, interstellar war, time-warps, the shriek of a rose, collision with an asteroid - the unknown liesaround every corner, and the universe is a big place. These ninescience-fiction stories offer possibilities that are fantastic,humorous, alarming, but always thought-provoking. This collectioncontains stories by Ray Bradbury, Bill Brown, Philip K. Dick, ArthurC. Clarke, Jerome Bixby, Isaac Asimov, Brian Aldiss, Roald Dahl, andJohn Wyndham.