From the back cover: A Six-Star triumph of vintage Van Vogt! * The Proxy Intelligence It was up to Steve Hardy, the dumbest roustabout in the solar system, to defeat the invading vampire Dreeghs ... somehow! * The Problem Professor Will a scientist in his cups stop man from reaching the stars? * Rebirth: Earth Tell me again how you won WWII by using a moon-ray time reflector.... * The Gryb In murder, as in settling a planet, experience counts! * The Invisibility Gambit On Earth, they can jail you for owning an invisibility suit. But when you're knocking about among the stars, sometimes it's safer not to be noticed.... * The Star-Saint Wives adored him; husbands hated him. But if the colony was to survive, they all needed him.
Author
Alfred Elton van Vogt was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded by some as one of the most popular and complex science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century—the "Golden Age" of the genre. van Vogt was born to Russian Mennonite family. Until he was four years old, van Vogt and his family spoke only a dialect of Low German in the home. He began his writing career with 'true story' romances, but then moved to writing science fiction, a field he identified with. His first story was Black Destroyer, that appeared as the front cover story for the July 1939 edtion of the popular "Astounding Science Fiction" magazine.
