The future is coming and William Tenn blows the trumpet that heralds it 4 times!

1. He forecasts in Firewater that only a humdrum business man can save civilization when the aliens arrive!
2. Forebodingly he tells in Time In Advance how you can murder with impunity - if you serve your sentence first!
3. "Foredoomed!" he cries, "Mars is not dead, its ancient microbes live on, lying in wait for man's invasion!"
4. And the forerunners in Winthrop Was Stubborn discover that they can't return from the twenty-fifth century, unless they all return together! 4 by Tenn! Four forceful novelettes of man's forthcoming future! Contents: Firewater Time in Advance The Sickness Winthrop Was Stubborn