Book detail for 5 Galaxy Short Novels

Cover tagline

What lies ahead as our world expands into outer space?

Back cover text

THEY HAD REMOVED HIS SKIN and replaced it with a synthetic substance.

BUT WHY?

Jadiver stepped from the bath and examined himself carefully. There were marks on the new skin, so faint as to be almost invisible. No, not on the skin — beneath it. A network that spread over his body, arms, legs, face. Perhaps on his head as well, though he couldn't see that.

WHY?

Suddenly he knew. That network of marks was a circuit — a circuit to gather data and broadcast it. He was to be a spy without knowing it — without being able to help it.

BUT FOR WHOM?

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Interior text

WILL THE FUTURE BE LIKE THIS?

Science-fiction writers have had an amazing record of predicting things that have later come to pass. Through their stories — their immensely educated guesses — they've already given us remarkable insights into what may lie ahead.

Here are five topflight short science-fiction novels that look into such matters as interplanetary colonization, relative immortality, extrasensory perception, rivalry between the stars and the transmission of matter. Will things happen this way — if they happen?

In this book, science and fiction join to provide a galaxy of insight and entertainment.

FIVE GALAXY SHORT NOVELS was originally published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., at $3.95.