ORBIT 2 is the paperback edition of the second in G. P. Putnam’s annual series of SF anthologies, that keeps ahead of this exciting field by publishing the best new science fiction stories before they have appeared anywhere else in the world. For each new volume, editor Damon Knight invites contributions from established SF authors as well as from new writers, and selects the best of the hundreds of submitted manuscripts. Damon Knight is founder and first president of Science Fiction Writers of America, author of five SF novels, four collections of short stories and has edited fourteen SF anthologies