Larry Niven is one of the brightest new talents in s.f. and the title story of this collection won him the 1966 Hugo Award. The seven other stories are thronged with superbly original characters and whole races of creatures such as grog, thrint and bandersnatchi, inhabiting worlds like LookItThat, Down, Jinx--indeed an entire galaxy of planets with their own histories, ecologies and epochs.
A collection of short stories written in Larry Niven's award-winning prime. What a pity they're contained in a book with an ugly cover that conveys nothing. Would it have been too much to ask for the cover artist to have depicted some of those "grog, thrint and bandersnatchi" instead of this naked muscleman floating in space?
