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Eight journeys into the future from this prize-winning author: a civilized society where barbarism is the norm; a search for super-intelligence that goes horribly wrong; a world where to be Non-Legal is to be non-human; an experiment to test the very nature of reality.

Contains:
A Pursuit of Miracles
Not in Front of the Children
Feedback
Shut the Door When You Go Out
On the Nursery Floor
In a Petri Dish Upstairs
Generation Gap
The Fittest

Contents:
The Trouble with You Earth People (1968)
Unhuman Sacrifice (1958)
The Gambling Hell and the Sinful Girl (1975)
Syndrome Johnny (1951)
Trouble with Treaties (1959) with Tom Condit
The Origin of the Species (1953)
Collision Orbit (1954)
The Fittest (1951)
These Truths (1958)
Contagion (1950)
Brain Wipe (1973)
The Missing Man (1971)

It all started when a scientist called Paget performed some fantastic experiments on dogs, cats, rats and mice in an attempt to heighten animal intelligence.

He was far too successful.

When a few of the specimens escaped from their cages, people were amused by the strange creatures. But as they rapidly bred and spread, and new generations combined vastly sharpened intelligence with a natural hatred of man, amusement turned to stark horror.

One man seemed to know too much about the net “paggets” for his own safety – but not enough to avoid getting caught squarely in the middle of mankind’s final, desperate battle, a savage struggle for supremacy in the world that would be won only by . . . THE FITTEST.

Zelos seemed an ideal planet for colonization. Possessing one large continent and numerous archipelagos, it had a climate and vegetation comfortably like that of Earth.



Captain James Conrad and his crew of Expendables started on their initial reconnaissance of the planet. For the first time they found human beings already in residence. But this was a society remote from anything they had ever before experienced. For the Emperor of this strange world controlled his domain through the great annual War Games.



Only the fittest could survive – and only they were allowed to procreate. Through this ‘death control’ the population was limited to twenty thousand. There was only one way the Expendables could get permission to establish a colony on Zelos. Risking their own lives, they must compete in the dreaded War Games. And, somehow, they must win.