Time and Stars (Macfadden SF, 60-206)

A very solid SF collection from the sixties. No particular standouts, but several good stories to be found here. Time and Stars : NO TRUCE WITH KINGS - Poul Anderson Time and Stars : ESCAPE FROM ORBIT - Poul Anderson Time and Stars : EPILOGUE - Poul Anderson Time and Stars : THE CRITIQUE OF IMPURE REASON - Poul Anderson Time and Stars : EVE TIMES FOUR - Poul Anderson Time and Stars : TURNING POINT - Poul Anderson Psychodynamic psionic war society manipulation. 4 out of 5 Meteor ship wreck. 3 out of 5 Robot race Zero radio last men conflict. 3.5 out of 5 Robot literature bad. 4 out of 5 Alien group forced colonisation harem. 3 out of 5 Assimilating smart people is key. 4 out of 5

from the back cover of the 1975 Manor Books paperback edition DANGEROUS UNIVERSE Faced with machines that think by and for themselves, super-intelligent space beings bent on a suicidal course and a galaxy teeming with dangerous alien life, man had to invent new weapons, new defenses - or perish from the universe. A mind-bending journey into time and space by one of America's finest writers. NO TRUCE WITH KINGS TURNING POINT ESCAPE FROM ORBIT EPILOGUE THE CRITIQUE OF IMPURE REASON EVE TIMES FOUR