Note: Reprints the 1978 collection ''Gordon R. Dickson's SF Best'', but removes the introduction and the bibliography and adds 2 extra stories.

Synopsis: Dickson's finest! Gordon R. Dickson hold the unique distinction of having won virtually every award the science fiction community has to offer, including the Hugo, the Nebula, the Jupiter, and the British Fantasy Awards. Author of nearly forty novels and 200 shorter works, his tales of future wonders and other worlds have delighted millions of readers around the world. His life work, the "Childe Cycle", has won the acclaim and admiration of the science fiction community as a momentous achievement of the imagination. Here are eleven of Dickson's finest short stories, guaranteed to delight both loyal Dickson fans and those coming to his work for the first time. Includes the Nebula winner Call Him Lord. (from the back cover of the Ace edition)