A few years back, in Ireland, Ray Bradbury spent some very productive months. Not only did he write the script of one of the best motion pictures of recent years—Moby Dick was its name—but on a side trip he met a young writer who had just turned his hand to science fiction, and persuaded him to let American editors see the results. Star was delighted to acquire two of them; the first was "Nor the Moon by Night," and the second is—

The anthology contains fourteen stories, selected by Frederik Pohl as the cream from the earlier six volumes of “Star Science Fiction Stories”. There is a three page introduction by the editor, Frederik Pohl, and a brief introduction to each story.  These are all good stories, well worth reading, even if some of them are a little dated, though that’s hardly surprising given it’s around sixty years since they first appeared