Collected her are five fantastic stories by Algis Budrys Frank Herbert Robert Sheckley Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and Jamie WildThe Stoker and the StarsWhen you've had your ears pinned back in a bowknot it's sometimes hard to remember that an intelligent people has no respect for a whipped enemy ... but does for a fairly beaten enemy.Missing LinkThe Romantics used to say that the eyes were the windows of the Soul. A good Alien Xenologist might not put it quite so poetically ... but he can if he's sharp read a lot in the look of an eye!Bad Medicine Elwood Caswell walked rapidly down Broadway with a loaded revolver hidden in his coat pocket. He didn't want to use the weapon but feared he might anyhow. This was a justifiable assumption for Caswell was a homicidal maniac. BR02BGot a problem? Just pick up the phone. It solved them all-and all the same way!