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The tenth volume of the popular series includes "Adjustment Team" by Philip K. Dick, "The Keeper" by H. Beam Piper, "The Amazing Mrs. Mimms" by David C. Knight, "The Girls from Earth" by Frank N. Robinson, "The Man the Martians Made" by Frank Long, and much more.

An anthology of short stories of spaceships, aliens, and the outer worlds by classic Science Fiction authors, from the Golden Age to the New Wave Era. This compilation includes stories by William Bender, Jr., Ray Bradbury, G. Gordon Dewey, Charles E. Fritch, Edward W. Ludwig, James V. McConnell, Stanley Mullen, Robert Silverberg, Jerry Sohl, Henry Slesar, and L.J. Stecher Jr.

They still talk of Braun, and the Fourth Intergalactic Survey. Other men before him had gone out into the far, dark places. Three previous expeditions had gone out and vanished completely. Then the Venture IV went out and out and out countless miles and light-years and whatever else it is - and out there in the lonely darkness, something happened. Nobody knew exactly what happened, but there was a lot of guessing. Only one man came back. Braun. And there was talk...

On Venus, life is cheap, and danger is around every corner. A mysterious woman wants a notorious man to enter a building and force a man to talk to her. If that doesn't work, he is to kill the man. She says this is an act of love, not revenge, and he will be handsomely rewarded. Things do not go as planned, but the incredible part is just beginning as the notorious man, turned hero, and the mysterious woman flee to a strange, deserted city where he discovers that the fate of the earth is in his hands.