Collected here are six fantastic science fiction stories by R. A. Lafferty, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Clifford D. Simak, Edgar Pangborn, Andre Norton, and Frank Herbert.

Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas: The place called Sodom was bad enough. But right down the road was the other town—and that was even worse!

The Worlds of If: Dixon Wells, a fashionable playboy, is always late. What will it cost him this time.

The Street That Wasn’t There: Jonathon Chambers went for a walk at the same time every day for twenty years. But this time when he got home nothing seemed quite right.

The Good Neighbors: You can’t blame an alien for a little inconvenience — as long as he makes up for it!

The Gifts of Asti: She was the guardian of the worlds, but HER world was dead.

Operation Haystack: It’s hard to ferret out a gang of fanatics; it would, obviously, be even harder to spot a genetic line of dedicated men. But the problem Orne had was one step tougher than that!