Wallace West

Dogtown is a shelter for stray dogs, misbehaving dogs, and discarded robot dogs, whose owners have outgrown them. Chance, a real dog, has been in Dogtown since her owners unwittingly left her with irresponsible dog-sitters who skipped town. Metal Head is a robot dog who dreams of being back in a real home. And Mouse is a mouse who has the run of Dogtown, pilfering kibble, and performing clever feats to protect the dogs he loves. When Chance and Metal Head embark on an adventure to find their forever homes, there is danger, cheese sandwiches, a charging station, and some unexpected kindnesses along the way.

A high school boy uses creativity, ingenuity, and scientific imagination to help save his town from water pollution and from becoming a depressed area.

The Underdweller - short story by William F. Nolan (variant of Small World) Flight to Forever - novella by Poul Anderson Trouble with Ants - novelette by Clifford D. Simak (variant of The Simple Way) The Coming of the Ice - short story by G. Peyton Wertenbaker The Most Sentimental Man - short story by Evelyn E. Smith Eddie for Short - short story by Wallace West Knock - short story by Fredric Brown Original Sin - short story by S. Fowler Wright A Man Spekith - novelette by Richard Wilson In the World's Dusk - short story by Edmond Hamilton Kindness - short story by Lester del Rey Lucifer - short story by Roger Zelazny Resurrection - short story by A. E. van Vogt (variant of The Monster 1948) The Second-Class Citizen - short story by Damon Knight Day of Judgment - short story by Edmond Hamilton Continuous Performance - short story by Gordon Eklund The New Reality - novelette by Charles L. Harness

In the dim past men had fled to Mars for refuge, but now the red planet was a dying world and the Martians returned to colonize and rule over the Titans — descendants of those who had stayed behind at the time of the now-legendary catastrophe. Teraf, prince of Hellas, was particularly struck by the changes Earth had wrought in Martians during the period of their rule. The rays of the earthly sun had burned their sensitive skin almost as black as those of Nubians, and to meet the stress of Terran gravitation, they had developed enormous muscles which sat poorly on their slender frames and gave them the deceitful appearance of strong men in a circus. The Afhas — those of mixed Martian and early parentage — apparently had absorbed the best traits of both. Like Teraf himself, all had blazing red hair and the slim grace of their Martian forebears, plus a better adaptation to their earthly conditions. But the rulers of the Titans, retained by their ancestral thrones, chafed under the benevolent progress of the Lords of Atlantis, looked back to a so-called “golden age,” and plotted rebellion. The leader of the rebels, spurring the barbarians on, was Plu Toh Ra, Pharoah of Egypt. Closer to home, Teraf's brother Refo, king of Hellas, had fallen in with the revolutionists. It didn't seem too important at first — even though the comet that had made Teraf's passage from Mars back to Earth difficult was regarded as an omen by the rebels. Zeus and his council could handle things. Martian power and radioactive weapons could easily bring the unruly to heel. Only Hephaestus reported the theft of orichalcum from the central power station, Bab-El — which meant that deadly bombs were available to hostile hands — and the supply of radioactives was low. They would be depend­ent upon replenishment from Mars. Then, suddenly and without warning, Plu Toh Ra struck at the tower of Bab-El and the power was cut off. Now the rulers of Atlan would be at the mercy of the barbarians eager for loot — and if they struck at the dam Heracles had built to hold back to the ever rising sea from the Mediterranean valley... Here is a thrilling novel of what might have been the basis of the Great Legends that have come down to us; of the "gods"; of Atlantis; of Zeus, Hermes, Hephaestus, Hera, Athena, Aphrodite, Jason, Medea — and of a mighty empire which was weighed in the balance and found wanting!