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of Random House, Inc.

H. Beam Piper, "Omnilingual" was first published inAstounding Science Fiction in February, 1957.

Robert A. Heinlein, "The Menace From Earth" was first published inThe Magazine of Fantasy and
Science Fiction in August, 1957.

Gordon R. Dickson, "St. Dragon and the George" was first published inThe Magazine of Fantasy and
Science Fiction in September, 1957.

Christopher Anvil, "The Gentle Earth" was first published inAstounding Science Fiction in November,
1957.

Murray Leinster, "The Aliens" was first published inAstounding Science Fiction in August, 1959.

Rick Raphael, "Code Three" was first published inAnalog in February, 1963.

James H. Schmitz, "Goblin Night" was first published inAnalog in April, 1965.

Keith Laumer, "The Last Command" was first published inAnalog in January, 1967.



Preface
 This anthology started in the course of a conversation I had with Jim Baen regarding possible future
prospects for reissuing old science fiction authors. In the course of advancing this or that idea, Jim
interrupted me and said what he'd like to see immediately would be for Dave Drake and myself to select
those stories which had the most impact on us as teenagers and got us interested in science fiction in the
first place. "Call itThe World Turned Upside Down," he said.

I liked the idea, and so did Dave when Jim and I raised it with him. The one change Dave proposed,
however, was that Jim serve as one of the editors of the volume, not simply as the publisher. That
seemed eminently rational, given that by then Jim had already advanced half a dozen stories he wanted
included in it because of the effect they'd had on him as a teenager.

So. This does not purport to be an anthology that contains "the best stories of science fiction"тАФalthough
all of us think this volume contains a superb collection of stories. But that was not the fundamental
criterion by which we made our selection. The stories were selected because of the impact they had on
us several decades ago, as we were growing up in the '50s and '60s.

Some authors are missing, unfortunately. In some casesтАФAndre Norton being the major example,
hereтАФbecause the stories the author wrote which had such an effect on us were novels, and there just
wasn't room in such an anthology for novel-length works. In other cases, because we were unable to
obtain the rights for the stories we wanted from the agencies representing some of the estates.

We got most of what we wanted, though. And . . . here it is.

The World Turned Upside Down.