The Martians, long exiled from their home planet, have for millennia been observers of the world of men. Forbidden by their laws to interfere with human destiny, they wait for mankind to mature. From the turmoil of mid twentieth-century America, word comes to the Observers that one of their
WEST OF THE SUN describes the impact of Man's intrusion into a strange and distant world, a planet the newcomers call Lucifer. Menacing creatures, bizarre plants - and among them two humanoid species involved in mutual strife. What effect will the marooned crew of the space-ship Argo have on their
The waters rose, and darkness was upon the earth... For a few decades after the Twenty-Minute War and the Red Plague, there were those who remembered the ways and pleasures of civilization, but soon the harsh realities of life in the flooded seaboard of North America pushed the survivors into a
With the same rich imagination and dazzling insights that won him the International Fantasy Award, Edgar Pangborn weaves a magical tapestry set far in man's future. It is a time when man, struggling to rise above the ashes of nuclear holocaust, has returned to the simpler values and lifestyle of
Edgar Pangborn, through his skillful opposition of the weird to the everyday and the alien to the worldly, totally involves the reader in a new, slightly altered reality. In GOOD NEIGHBORS AND OTHER STRANGERS, all the stories have an earthly setting — and an earthly, understated, masterly prose. It
