Ranging from the conventional to the "new wave," this brilliant collection of 18 short stories demonstrates Norman Spinrad's complete mas­tery of his art. It provides spectacular evidence for the claim that he is the first writer to break into the big-time mainstream of science fiction since Bradbury and Clarke.

Contents:

• Carcinoma Angels
• The Age of Invention
• Outward Bound
• A Child of Mind
• The Equalizer
• The Last of the Romany
• Technicality
• The Rules of the Road
• Dead End
• A Night in Elf Hill
• Deathwatch
• The Ersatz Ego
• Neutral Ground
• Once More, with Feeling
• It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane!
• Subjectivity
• The Entropic Gang Bang Caper
• The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde