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(PSP #24) Fantastic Universe Super Pack #1: ISBN: 978-1-5154-0-981-6
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Acknowledgments
“Dream World” by R. A. Lafferty originally appeared in Galaxy Magazine, June 1962.
“The Imitation of Earth” by James Stamers originally appeared in Galaxy Magazine, October 1960.
“Amateur in Chancery” by George O. Smith originally appeared in Galaxy Magazine, October 1961.
“The Lamps of the Angels” by Richard Sabia originally appeared in Galaxy Magazine, June 1962.
“Conditionally Human” by Walter M. Miller, Jr. originally appeared in Galaxy Magazine, February 1952.
“Dawningsburgh” by Wallace West originally appeared in Galaxy Magazine, June 1962.
“Extracts from the Galactick Almanack (Music Around the Universe)” by Larry M. Harris (Laurence Janifer) originally appeared in Galaxy Magazine, June 1959.
“Breakdown” by Herbert D. Kastle originally appeared in Galaxy Magazine, June 1961.
“A Matter of Protocol” by Jack Sharkey originally appeared in Galaxy Magazine, August 1962.
“Charity Case” by Jim Harmon originally appeared in Galaxy Magazine, December 1959.
“The Rag and Bone Men” by Algis Budrys originally appeared in Galaxy Magazine, February 1962.
“Pick a Crime” by Richard R. Smith originally appeared in Galaxy Magazine, May 1958.
“Shatter the Wall” by Sydney Van Scyoc originally appeared in Galaxy Magazine, February 1962.
“Always a Qurono: by Jim Harmon originally appeared in Galaxy Magazine, August 1962.
“Subject to Change” by Ron Goulart originally appeared in Galaxy Magazine, December 1960.
“Sales Talk” by Con Blomberg originally appeared in Galaxy Magazine, December 1959.
“The Big Engine” by Fritz Leiber originally appeared in Galaxy Magazine, February 1962.
“Accidental Flight” by F. L. Wallace originally appeared in Galaxy Magazine, April 1952.
“The World That Couldn’t Be” by Clifford D. Simak originally appeared in Galaxy Magazine, January 1958.
“Solid Solution” by James Stamers originally appeared in Galaxy Magazine, April 1960.
“With These Hands” by C. M. Kornbluth originally appeared in Galaxy Magazine, December 1951.
“A Fall of Glass” by Stanley R. Lee originally appeared in Galaxy Magazine, October 1960.
“Sordman the Protector” by Tom Purdom originally appeared in Galaxy Magazine, August 1960.
“Jamieson” by Bill Doede originally appeared in Galaxy Magazine, December 1960.
“The Music Master of Babylon” by Edgar Pangborn originally appeared in Galaxy Magazine, November 1954.
“The Defenders” by Philip K. Dick originally appeared in Galaxy Magazine, January 1953.
Dream World
By R. A. Lafferty
It was the awfullest dream in the world, no doubt about it. In fact, it seemed to be the only dream there was!
He was a morning type, so it was unusual that he should feel depressed in the morning. He tried to account for it, and could not.
He was a healthy man, so he ate a healthy breakfast. He was not too depressed for that. And he listened unconsciously to the dark girl with the musical voice. Often she ate at Cahill’s in the mornings with her girl friend.
Grape juice, pineapple juice, orange juice, apple juice ... why did people look at him suspiciously just because he took four or five sorts of juice for breakfast?
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“Agnes, it was ghastly. I was built like a sack. A sackful of skunk cabbage, I swear. And I was a green-brown color and had hair like a latrine mop. Agnes, I was sick with misery. It just isn’t possible for anybody to feel so low. I can’t shake it at all. And the whole world was like the underside of a log. It wasn’t that, though. It wasn’t
