¿Ha leído usted alguna vez una historia que le haya hecho sentirse como si estuviera loco? En éste libro se le ofrecen diez ocasiones de hacerlo.
Frederick Pohl es el Einstein de la ciencia ficción o, como dice Kingsley Amis, "el escritor más capaz y consistente que la ciencia ficción, en el sentido moderno del témino, ha producido". Piense en algo que le parezca impensable: Frederick Pohl lo habrá creado ya.

Good collection of Pol's short stories from the 1950s and early 1960s. Pohl was one of the pioneers of the Golden Age of SF. He worked as both a writer and magazine editor. I enjoyed these stories. You know you like a story if you tell it to someone you know. I retold a couple of the these to my sons over dinner. ( )

Great collection of 1950s speculative stories by Pohl.

"Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus": A department store manager falls for an unusual employee and is taught the real meaning of Christmas.

"The Ghost-Maker": A disgraced academic seeks out a magician for revenge.

"Let the Ants Try": In a war-torn America, a time travel experiment works all too well.

"Pythias": A man reveals to a friend the secrets of his psychokinetic powers.

"The Mapmakers": After a hyperspace jump, a star-ship is lost in space with no records of how to return home.

"Rafferty's Reasons": In a work-obsessed culture, a man fantasizes about killing his cruel boss.

"Target One": In another post-war future, a group of men plot to kill the man who made the atomic bomb possible.

"Grandy Devil": Odd little story about a family of immortals.

"The Tunnel Under the World": A man realizes he's been waking up on the same morning, after the same dream, day after day.

"What To Do Until the Analyst Comes": A tobacco company searches for healthier, less addictive alternative. ( )

A collection of short stories, most dealing with alternate histories or futures. The author seems preoccupied with the idea that the recently discovered atomic bombs would yield a very bleak future. Fortunately none of his imagined events have yet taken place. The best story in this collection is "The Tunnel Under The World" which deals with a community devoted solely to testing advertisements, but with a quite unexpected twist. The worst (although still not terrible, and with another pretty great twist ending) is "The Mapmakers," a tale about hyperspace travel. Most of the reason I didn't like this story is that I was halfway done with it before I figured out the jargon enough to understand it, and I never really did fully understand most of the technical stuff. In fact, a lot of these stories were kind of hard to get into and would probably bear a second reading, as it's not generally readily apparent what is taking place and where (or when). It's good to keep in mind throughout that these stories are all written in the 1950's and that mindset (especially in science fiction) is rather different than today's. ( )