The Diploids and Other Stories

Here is science fiction reading at its best - including these chilling tales that are almost too frighteningly real: ► Cliff Baker had been away on the Pluto Project for a long time. When he returned to Station A, he found everyone humming and talking in a weird discordant way... ► After the great peace, the conformity syndrome grew and grew. If you wore your head backwards you were a seditioner, and then the vigilantes went to work... ► They were from another planet but very similar to human life on Earth. Only there was one terrible difference... ► Part of Ronny wanted to continue playing Indian games. Part of Ronny was Dr. Purcell concentrating on secret equations that he wanted to pass on to responsible posterity. Which one would win? CONTENTS 1. The Diploids—Die, Freak (1953) 2. And Be Merry (1950) 3. The Snowball Effect (1952) 4. Incommunicado (1950) 5. Feedback(1951) 6. Games (1953) 7. Pictures Don't Lie (1951) 8. Defense Mechanism (1949)