The Best of Lester del Rey

SF's most protean personality – writer, editor, critic, publisher – sets off an incomparable fireworks display in these tales of robots and humans, animals and aliens, ghosts and gods, science and the supernatural...

HELEN O'LOY

If you want an ideal mate, build her!

HEREAFTER, INC.

This is Heaven? The hell it is!

LITTLE JIMMY

The invisible kid was a ghost for sure. But whose?

INSTINCT

The robots labored to re-create the extinct human species – but there was one element they somehow left out.

FOR I AM A JEALOUS PEOPLE

"In God We Trust" is a great motto – until you find you can't.

And much more!

Contents:

• Helen O'Loy
• The Day Is Done
• The Coppersmith
• Hereafter, Inc.
• The Wings of Night
• Into Thy Hands
• And It Comes Out Here
• The Monster
• The Years Draw Nigh
• Instinct
• Superstition
• For I Am a Jealous People!
• Keepers of the House
• Little Jimmy
• The Seat of Judgment
• Vengeance Is Mine