This collection of the best short stories of Mark Clifton makes these fine tales readily available for the first time in two decades.
Winner with Frank Riley of the 1955 Hugo Award for They’d Rather Be Right, Clifton has for a var...
The government ordered it built: a thinking machine that could foresee catastrophe and eliminate human error. Reasearch trainee Joe Carter sees another possibility--create a machine that will make ordinary people telepathic--and immortal. "Full of ex...
SEVEN DOORS TO SEVEN ROOMS OF THOUGHT1 Accept the statement of Eminent Authority without basis, without question.2 Disagree with the statement without basis, out of general contrariness.3 Perhaps the statement is true, but what if it i...
What is a "phony"? Someone who believes he can do X, when he can't, however sincerely he believes it? Or someone who can do X, believes he can't, and believes he is pretending he can?...