The Science Fiction Anthology. Fritz Leiber

Outbreak of Peace, by H.B. Fyfe

       The Skull, by Philip K. Dick

       The Smiler, by Albert Hernhunter

       The Unthinking Destroyer, by Roger Phillips

       Two Timer, by Frederic Brown

       Vital Ingredient, by Charles De Vet

       Weak on Square Roots, by Russell Burton

       With a Vengeance, by J.B. Woodley

       Zero Hour, by Alexander Blade

       The Great Nebraska Sea, by Allan Danzig

       The Valor of Cappen Varra, by Poul Anderson

       A Bad Day for Vermin, by Keith Laumer

       Hall of Mirrors, by Frederic Brown

       Common Denominator, by John MacDonald

       Doctor, by Murray Leinster

       The Nothing Equation, by Tom Godwin

       The Last Evolution, by John Campbell

       A Hitch in Space, by Fritz Leiber

       On the Fourth Planet, by J.F. Bone

       Flight From Tomorrow, by H. Beam Piper

       Card Trick, by Walter Bupp

       The K-Factor, by Harry Harrison

       The Lani People, by J. F. Bone

       Advanced Chemistry, by Jack Huekels

       Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas, by R. A. Lafferty

       Keep Out, by Frederic Brown

       All Cats are Gray, by Andre Norton

       A Problem in Communication, by Miles J. Breuer

       The Terrible Tentacles of L-472, by Sewell Peaslee Wright

       Marooned Under the Sea, by Paul Ernst

       The Murder Machine, by Hugh B. Cave

       The Attack from Space, by Captain S. P. Meek

       The Knights of Arthur, by Frederik Pohl

       And All the Earth a Grave, by C.C. MacApp

       Citadel, by Algis Budrys

       Micro-Man, by Weaver Wright

       Missing Link, by Frank Herbert

       People Soup, by Alan Arkin

       The Brain, by Alexander Blade

       The Judas Valley, by Gerald Vance

       The Moon is Green, by Fritz Leiber

       The Next Logical Step, by Ben Bova

       The Year When Stardust Fell, by Raymond Jones

       Toy Shop, by Harry Harrison

       Year of the Big Thaw, by Marion Zimmer Bradley

The Sentimentalists, by Murray Leinster

      Rhadampsicus and Nodalictha were on their honeymoon, and consequently they were sentimental. To be sure, it would not have been easy for humans to imagine sentiment as existing between them. Humans would hardly associate tenderness with glances cast from sets of sixteen eyes mounted on jointed eye stalks, nor link langorous thrills with a coy mingling of positronic repulsion blasts—even when the emission of positron blasts from beneath one’s mantle was one’s normal personal mode of locomotion. And when two creatures like Rhadampsicus and Nodalictha stood on what might be roughly described as their heads and twined their eye stalks together, so that they gazed fondly at each other with all sixteen eyes at once, humans would not have thought of it as the equivalent of a loving kiss. Humans would have screamed and run—if they were not paralyzed by the mere sight of such individuals.

      Nevertheless, they were a very happy pair and they were very sentimental, and it was probably a good thing, considered from all angles. They were still newlyweds on their wedding tour—they had been married only seventy-five years before—when they passed by the sun that humans call Cetis Gamma.

      Rhadampsicus noted its peculiarity. He was anxious, of course, for their honeymoon to be memorable in every possible way. So he pointed it out to Nodalictha and explained what was shortly to be expected. She listened with a bride’s rapt admiration of her new husband’s wisdom. Perceiving his scientific interest, she suggested