Eight science fiction stories, some writ¬ten in the 1950’s, some in recent years, whose predictions of chilling futures seem to be coming true. “Today we are living yesterday’s Science Fiction,” says Lloyd Biggie, and these portraits of terrifying tomorrows bear some un-comfortable resemblances to our world today.
Here are worlds where entertainment has replaced education, TV has replaced many personal interactions, and censorship endangers the lives of those it claims to protect; civilizations lulled into bland passivity and totally unmanageable cities; as well as some interesting twists on insurance, professional sports, state lotteries, unemployment, and crime and punishment.
A frightening and sometimes tongue-in-cheek look at A GALAXY OF STRANGERS.

AND MADLY TEACH - A middle-aged teacher, assigned from Mars to Earth, finds the school system totally changed. Forty thousand students will learn English via TV - and Miss Boltz’s ratings must be good or else...

THE DOUBLE-EDGED ROPE - In a European Communist country, a worker at the Censorship Bureau checks the latest regulations and discovers that to talk about flying saucers incurs the death penalty! Unfortunately for him he finds out why....

EYE FOR AN EYE - Maylor is a planet where “The Rule of Justice” has made insurance policies of any kind unnecessary; but Dudley of Galactic Insurance has plans to change all that....

FIRST LOVE - The adolescent who meets an enchanting stranger instantly wonders, “Who is it?” This story suggests a more important question: “What is it?”

WHO’S ON FIRST - The Pirates baseball team gets a new outfielder who’s out of this world....

ROUND TRIP TO ESIDARAP - When a strange travel agent comes to Centralia, Ohio, a young couple signs up for a oneway trip to a rather “backward” destination - a place where the age-old laws of buying and selling are reversed.

NO BIZ LIKE SHOW BIZ - A future where the unemployed are executed and murderers are treated like celebrities - which proves to be a much worse fate.

WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT! - When the government establishes a lottery where the winner can name his own prize, it is not surprising that the sky is no longer the limit.