Part 14

This is Mr. Pohl’s sixth published book. Two of them were reprint collections which he edited and two others were the now-celebrated first and second volumes of STAR SCIENCE FICTION STORIES, collections of new stories published by Ballantine Books. At 34, Mr. Pohl lives in a large old house on the Jersey shore—“five rooms for me, four for my wife and two apiece for the children.” He has three more books forthcoming in 1953: two anthologies and his first solo novel.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

Repeated instances of the title in the front of the book have been reduced.

Punctuation has been normalized. Variations in hyphenation have been retained as they were in the original publication. The following assumed printer’s errors were corrected:

look at the stars and breath —> breathe {Page 24}

Halsey City to the ’port —> port {Page 29}

were ready to quit Oldhan —> Oldham {Page 31}

short of meccano-toy —> sort {Page 96}

O.8952, —> 0.8952, {Page 109}

Trouble is, he’s too Jonesfearing. —> Jones-fearing {Page 118}

Italicized phrases are presented by surrounding the text with _underscores_.

In the mathematical formulas, superscripts and subscripts are represented by surrounding with curly brackets; in the case of subscripts, the leading bracket is preceded by an underscore, and in the case of superscripts, it is preceded by a caret. In the simple case of a single superscripted character, a caret may precede the character without any brackets. An example is: L_{T}=L_{O}e-^{T/2N}