AT THE MOUSE CIRCUS—Harlan EllisonA mysterious, enigmatic, haunting story…I found it irresistible: beautifully written, marvelously controlled, wondrously hallucinatory. I’m proud to have published it.NOBODY’S HOME—Joanna RussI regard this story with awe, for it seems to me one of the most vivid and plausible depictions of the daily life of the future ever written.THE PSYCHOLOGIST WHO WOULDN’T DO AWFUL THINGS TO RATS—James Tip tree, Jr.If I were allowed to claim as my work just one of the whole hundred-odd stories I’ve published in New Dimensions, this is the one I would take.—Robert Silverberg

OTHER TIMES, OTHER PLACES…They beckon. And always have.Space travel is a reality now, but time travel is still just a haunting idea.When twelve superb science fiction writers deal with the far-ranging implications of the idea—on time long past, or far in the future, or somehow out of focus—twelve marvelously different stories are the result. Here’s fascinating variety about fantastic possibilities. 

Epub v4 (mine)Common time, by J. Blish.--Four in one, by D. Knight.--Ozymandias, by R. Silverberg.--The end of the line, by J.H. Schmitz.--A walk in the dark, by A.C. Clarke.--Planetoid idiot, by P. Gotlieb.--The keys to December, by R. Zelazny.--Gypsy, by P. Anderson

A Antholgy of eleven science fiction storirs - edited by Robert SilverbergIncluding: "Tomorrow's Children," by Poul Anderson and F.N. Waldrop; "It's a Good Life," by Jerome Bixby" The Mute Question" by Forrest J Ackerman; "Let the Ants Try" by Frederik Pohl; "The Conqueror" by Mark Clifton; "Liquid Life" by Ralph Milne Farley; "Hothouse" by Brian W. Aldiss; "Oxymandias" by Terry Carr; "The Man Who Never Forgot" by Robert Silverberg; "Ginny Wrapped in the Sun" by R.A. Lafferty; and "Watershed" by James Blish.

Three writers combine their talents to produce a trio of novella-length mystery stories in the science-fiction mode.In Phyllis Gotlieb’s Galactic Federation City, the crimson cats Khreng and Prandra consult the mysterious talking brains-in-a-bottle to help solve an outbreak of strange deaths. Read it in “The King’s Dogs.”The hero of Glenn Chang’s “In the Blood” is the youngest of his “father’s” clones—and hence the one whose duty it is to investigate the old man’s death.Mark J. McGarry’s protagonist in “Acts of Love” is engaged in a hunt for the source of a devastating intergalactic power that blew a hole through the Earth’s crust at a place that used to be called Omaha.Acclaimed science fiction writer and editor Robert Silverberg, who compiled this anthology, believes that it is in the novella that the sci-fi writer is best able to develop both ideas and character. And in these haunting tales, three young authors demonstrate how their contrasting styles make the most of a common theme.

These three novellas are set in an alternate world first created by Silverberg in his novel, The Gate of Worlds (TOR, 1984). The idea remains intriguing: the Black Plague decimates the European population to a degree that proves irrecoverable and the ensuing cultural, inventive, and technological vacuum is filled by the civilizations of Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Silverberg and John Brunner contribute taut and tantalizing glimpses into the might-have-beens of Timbuctoo politics and would-be Eastern European assassins. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's contribution, set in the courts of the Incas, unfortunately bogs down in its strain to demonstrate just how exotic this setting is. Despite this reservation, the book is likely to be popular with fans of alternate-world dramas and of these well-known authors.