Alpha 6

by Robert Silverberg

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Summary

Edited by Robert Silverberg.
Includes:
"The Lost Contient" by Norma Spinrad 1970
African tourists visit a United States blighted by environmental catastrophe.

"Light of Other Days" by Bob Shaw 1966
A young couple contemplates thier first purchase of "slow glass."

"The Secret of Old Custard" by John Sladek 1966
Surrealist paranoid humor?

"Down among the Dead Men" by William Tenn 1954
A drill sargent meets his new unit, composed of lab-developed men made from the remains of fallen soldiers.

"With These Hands" by C.M. Kornbluth 1951
A sculptor faces new technologies.

"Short in the Chest" by Idris Seabright 1954
An andriod military psychologist provides advice.

"Brown Robert" by Terry Carr 1962
The problems of time-travel.

"The Food Farm" by Kit Reed 1967
A young woman and her food fixation.

"An Honorable Death" by Gordon R. Dickson 1960
Colonists of an alien world host a dinner party.

"Man of Parts" Horace L. Gold 1954
A space pilot's mind is transfered into an conscious machine.

"Painwise" by James Tiptree 1972
A spacetraveler, anatomically altered for spacetravel battles with his computer chaperone.

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