Galactic Cluster

Two men alone on a space station – an over-zealous colonel and the civilian who tries to talk him out of dropping three hydogen bombs on Washington DC.

A seductive actress signs up for the maiden flight of a space ship so that she can track down the husband who jilted her.

A fiendishly clever agent infiltrates a top-secret government project and threatens the very existence of Earth.

The short stories in this book, and when they originally appeared, are:

• Tomb Tapper
• King of the Hill
• Common Time
• A Work of Art (Art Work)
• To Pay the Piper
• Nor Iron Bars (Detour to the Stars)
• Beep
• This Earth of Hours