First published 1972
This tenth volume in the celebrated Orbit series delivers eleven works of speculative fiction from leading voices in the genre. Gene Wolfe anchors the collection with his novella The Fifth Head of Cerberus. Carol Emshwiller contributes the short story Al. Edward Bryant offers Jody After the War while Alexei Panshin presents Now I'm Watching Roger. Jack Dann provides Whirl Cage and Gardner Dozois delivers the novelette A Kingdom by the Sea. Additional stories come from Albert Teichner, George Alec Effinger, R. A. Lafferty, Richard E. Peck, and Kate Wilhelm with her novelette The Fusion Bomb. The volume includes a comprehensive index covering all ten Orbit collections, making it a reference point for the series that has defined contemporary science fiction publishing.
Genres: short-stories, science-fiction, anthologies, speculative-fiction
Vibes: suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: anthology
Period: 20th-century
255 pages · Paperback · Berkley Medallion