“A novel with 19 authors”, according to the cover; it’s actually an anthology with 19 separate episodes on the theme of aliens and humans co-existing in one body, with authors from all over the world.

Contents:

• Report From the Planet Earth by Frederik Pohl
• The Last Word by Elizabeth Anne Hull
• Sitting Around the Pool, Soaking Up the Rays by Frederik Pohl
• The Thursday Events by Ye Yonglie
• User Friendly by Spider Robinson
• Life as an Ant by André Carneiro
• Fiddling for Waterbuffaloes by Somtow Sucharitkul
• S Is for Snake by Lino Aldani
• The Divided Carla by Josef Nesvadba
• The View from the Top of the Tower by Harry Harrison
• Don’t Knock the Rock by A. Bertram Chandler
• The Owl of Bear Island by Jon Bing
• Contacts of a Fourth Kind by Ljuben Dilov
• Infestation by Brian W. Aldiss
• In the Blink of an Eye by Carlos Maria Federici
• Particularly Difficult Territory by Janusz A. Zajdel
• Time Everlasting by Sam J. Lundwall
• The Middle Kingdom by Tong Enzheng & Elizabeth Anne Hull, adapt.
• On the Inside Track by Karl-Michael Armer
• The Legend of the Paper Spaceship by Tetsu Yano; trans. by Gene Van Troyer & Tomoko Oshiro
• We Servants of the Stars by Frederik Pohl

  Edited by Frederik Pohl and Elizabeth Anne Hull.