This 4th edition has a new format and includes a couple of short essays on short stories and on writting them. Weird situations anyone might find themselves confronted with or having landed in form the essence of these stories - though there's a few exceptions. The stories range from the almost normal to the beyond absurd: a dying bohemian artistic genius; a ruthless computer intent on taking-over the world of commerce; a hair-raising haunted runaway train; a bizarre encounter with an android on route to the asteroid belt; an escape from a factory solid with hazardous machines; a risky imagined space adventure at near speed-of-light; a lone habitual night wanderer trapped in eternal recurrence; an encounter with a crazy laughing guru...
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