There are several famous authors in this collection first published in 1963/4. There are also many I am not at all familiar with. One of the famous ones is Conrad Richter whose opening story 'Doctor Hanray's Second Chance' is very good. It is about an atomic scientist who developed an atomic bomb and visits where he grew up. For a short period he steps back into time and as the story develops he tries to talk his own young self out of pursuing physics instead of medicine. This one was published in the Saturday Evening Post, June 10, 1950.

The stories cover a period of 25 years, from 1937 to 1962. The stories are very well written and some reflect the times they were written in and some seem timeless. I really enjoyed this collection, reading the stories a few at a time. This is simply a great batch of old fashioned stories and only a couple were not as good as most.

Included is what was apparently a rather famous and celebrated anti-war novella of the 1950's, 'The Answer" by Philip Wylie.

7 • Doctor Hanray's Second Chance • (1950) • shortstory by Conrad Richter
19 • Fallout Island • (1962) • shortstory by Robert Murphy
29 • The Green Hills of Earth • (1947) • shortstory by Robert A. Heinlein
39 • Doomsday Deferred • (1949) • shortstory by Murray Leinster (as by Will F. Jenkins)
49 • Test-Tube Terror • (1958) • shortstory by Robert Standish
61 • Island of Fear • (1958) • shortstory by William Sambrot
70 • Sinister Journey • (1953) • shortstory by Conrad Richter
84 • The Place of the Gods • (1937) • shortstory by Stephen Vincent Benét
96 • The Phantom Setter • (1961) • shortstory by Robert Murphy
110 • The Big Wheel • (1961) • shortstory by Fred McMorrow
117 • The Death Dust • (1959) • shortstory by Frank Harvey
128 • The Lost Continent • (1960) • shortstory by Geoffrey Household
139 • The Trap • (1956) • shortstory by Kem Bennett
150 • Space Secret • (1959) • shortstory by William Sambrot
155 • The Unsafe Deposit Box • (1962) • shortstory by Gerald Kersh
165 • The Second Trip to Mars • (1954) • shortstory by Ward Moore (variant of Dominions Beyond)
177 • The Voice in the Earphones • (1947) • shortstory by Wilbur Schramm
186 • Moon Crazy • (1949) • shortstory by William Roy Shelton
199 • The Little Terror • (1953) • shortstory by Murray Leinster (as by Will F. Jenkins)
213 • The Answer • (1955) • novella by Philip Wylie ( )