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Jacket Painting: Richard V. Corben
Including a special introduction by BARRY N. MALZBERG
Blurb: “Damon Knight, besides being one of the top SF anthology editors in the field, is also widely respected as one of the genre's chief exponents of sardonic wit and unusual adventure. And while his output may be small, each of his stories is a gem to be read and treasured. For a long while, collectors had to go to many different back-dated magazines to find THE BEST OF DAMON KNIGHT-now the author himself has put 22 of his finest works into one major anthology. Just some of the classic tales included are:
The Analogues. A year ago no bar in Chicago would let Ernie Fox put his foot in the door. He liked to get drunk, and when he got drunk he liked to start fights. He's still incur-able, but he doesn't cause any trouble now that he's got an analogue. The doctors call it a complete audio/visual hallucination - something perfectly real to Ernie that forces him to stop drinking before it's too late. But who treated him with this marvelous new psychological technique? In the right hands this innovative process could but in the wrong help millions, hands....
To Serve Man - The aliens looked something like pigs and something like people-not a very attractive combination. Maybe that's why Earth-men were still so horrified when the called themselves, landed in their great spaceships and offered lasting prosperity. It wasn't easy to willingly accept gifts monsters, but in time the human race adjusted and began to live opulently thanks to the Kanamit credo - Serve Man." An admirable motto to be sure... or was it?
Special Delivery. Moira Con-nington was about seven months pregnant when the nightmare began.
One evening after Len, her husband, finished mixing her a drink, a strange voice came from her lips.
"Mama drink milk" it ordered. Shortly after, Moira was compelled to read odd books and consume unusual foods Somehow, someway, the unborn something inside her was using Moira's body as a way to the outside world. And if it was this powerful now, what would it be like after it was born...?
Other stories include Back-ward, O Time, where a man lives his life in reverse-from death to birth;
The Handler, in which a quite conservative dwarf named Fred is trapped within a gregarious robot
named Pete; Eripmav, a strange saga of vampires on the prowl; and The Big Pat Boom, the engaging tale of some unusual creatures after a very unexpected commodity.
It's all part of the fantastic world of Damon Knight-and it's packed into a unique volume no science fiction fan will want to miss.“