15 Short Stories

Amberley of Science could only say, “Finding ten men in two hundred and twenty million is an awfully small needle in an awfully large haystack.”

“All the jokes are old! That’s why jokes exhibit such a social lag. They still deal with seasickness, for instance, when that’s so easily prevented these days that almost no-one has ever experienced it. Or

“All life on Saybrook’s Planet is a single organism. In a sense, all life on Earth is, too, but it’s a lighting dependence, a dog-eat-dog dependence. The bacteria fix nitrogen; the plants fix carbon; animals eat plants and

It’s the complexity of the human mentality that makes mental and emotional maturity lag so far behind sexual maturity in man, with its consequent harvest of troubles. It’s the delicacy of mental equipment that makes most or all of the race neurotic.