An anthology of nine science fiction short stories sandwiched between an introduction and an afterword by the editor, Forrest J. Ackerman. "Forever and Amen" (1972) by Robert Bloch "Seventy Years of Decpop" (1972) by Philip Jose Farmer "The Merchants of Venus" (1972) by Frederik Pohl "The Shape of Science Fiction to Come" (1973) by Frederik Pohl "Getting Together" (1972) by Milton A. Rothman "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" (1972) by Thomas N. Scortia "What We Learned from This Morning's Newspaper" (1972) by Robert Silverberg "A Thing of Beauty" (1972) by Norman Spinrad "Ersatz Eternal" (1972) by A.E. van Vogt