Universe 5

Already recognized as a major source of the most imaginative science fiction stories of the 1970's, the Universe series continues with this new selection of never-before-published stories by SF's finest writers. Ursula K. Le Guin's Schrodinger's Cat offers a bright and funny commentary on the mysterious fluctuations of reality. Edgar Pangborn's The Night Wind is a moving narrative of prejudice and human love in a future world of grotesque mutants. F. M. Busby's novelette If This Is Winnetka, You Must Be Judy tells of a man cast adrift in time-never knowing when he wakes whether he is a child, an adult or an aged invalid. Fritz Leiber's Mysterious Doings in the Metropolitan Museum is a wry, sly tale about the strange creatures who live unseen among us. --And there are either more stories, by Hilary Bailey, Mildred Downey Broxon, Geo. Alec Effinger, Stephen Goldin, Kris Neville, J. Michael Reaves, J. J. Russ and Gene Wolfe. Universe 5 provides a delightful showplace for the continuing development of this most exciting of modern fiction forms.