The Best of Lester del Rey
SF's most protean personality – writer, editor, critic, publisher – sets off an incomparable fireworks display in these tales of robots and humans, animals and aliens, ghosts and gods, science and the supernatural...
HELEN O'LOY
If you want an ideal mate, build her!
HEREAFTER, INC.
This is Heaven? The hell it is!
LITTLE JIMMY
The invisible kid was a ghost for sure. But whose?
INSTINCT
The robots labored to re-create the extinct human species – but there was one element they somehow left out.
FOR I AM A JEALOUS PEOPLE
"In God We Trust" is a great motto – until you find you can't.
And much more!
Contents:
- Helen O'Loy
- The Day Is Done
- The Coppersmith
- Hereafter, Inc.
- The Wings of Night
- Into Thy Hands
- And It Comes Out Here
- The Monster
- The Years Draw Nigh
- Instinct
- Superstition
- For I Am a Jealous People!
- Keepers of the House
- Little Jimmy
- The Seat of Judgment
- Vengeance Is Mine
Lester del Rey
Lester del Rey (1915–1993) was an American science fiction author and editor. Del Rey is especially famous for his juvenile novels such as those which are part of the Winston Science Fiction series, and for Del Rey Books, the fantasy and science fiction branch of Ballantine Books edited by Lester del Rey and his fourth wife Judy-Lynn del Rey.
Lester del Rey used these pseudonyms: Philip St. John, Kenneth Wright, Erik van Lhin, Charles Satterfield, Edson McCann, John Alvarez, Marion Henry, Philip James, Wade Kaempfert, Ramon F. Alvarez-del Rey and Cameron Hall.