Wherein is presented a lovely notion—that we live on a reservation, watched over by morons, since meeting normal members of the Watchers race would be fatal—
It had been intended as a test—but the test went wrong. But it was very hard for the human to appreciate or guess at the Achilles Heel of the incredible Rull!
The Shop appeared from nowhere abruptly, a shop defying the law and the power ot the empress. The old man tried to drive out the shop and its two keepers—a little task in which, though his credulous mind couldn’t grasp it, all the might of the world Empire had failed!
There are times when—even in peacetime—science serves better in silence and by stealth.The man who found the mighty engine, dropped tram a spaceship, had a chance to do that.-oOo-There are times – and ways – in which scientist can best serve progressBy keeping that progress unknown to the world. Even though the progressinvolves a thing as spectacular as The Great Engine
Most wars arise because the enemies do not understand each other.But this time the enemy didn't know who they were fighting!When the evolving robot arrived at the stage where he could be said tohave a “soul” he was at last accepted as an integral part of man’s civilization.
Meet a terrifying creature on a remote pacific island whose soule is atomic fire. Observe the first man on Venus encounter a can of paint - a maddening test of his capasities for survival. Read the bizarre correspondance between two intersteller pen pals. Watch an arificial manlike monster turn against its captors and threaten a cosmic empire. Follow a lovely saleswoman of uncanny gadgets on a tour though new vistas of time as space.
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Because a people live on a planet. Ir does not mean they have a civilization on that planet. First they must learn theMe old tricks and make them new—-0-Synopsis : To Colonize a new planet is not the same as building a newCivilization there. And a real pioneer can like any world!