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1952 issue of If, copyright 1952 by Quinn Publishing Co., Inc.

"THE BIG HUNGER" appeared in the Oct. 1952 issue of Astounding Sci-ence Fiction, copyright
1952 by Walter M. Miller, Jr.

"CONDITIONALLY HUMAN " appeared in the Feb. 1952 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction, copyright
1952 by Walter M. Miller, Jr.

"THE DARFSTELLER" appeared in the Jan. 1955 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, copyright
1954 by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
DARK BENEDICTION " appeared in the Sep. 1951 issue of Fantastic Adventure, copyright 1951 by
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Walter M. Miller, Jr.; copyright renewed
┬й 1979.

THE LINEMAN " appeared in the Aug. 1957 issue of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction,
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copyright ┬й 1957 by Fantasy House, Inc.

"VENGENCE FOR NIKOLAI " appeared in the Mar. 1957 issue of Venture Science Fiction,
copyright m 1956 by Mercury Publications, Inc.

Contents

You Triflin' Skunk!
The Will
Anybody Else Like Me?
Crucifixus Etiam
I, Dreamer
Dumb Waiter
Blood Bank
Big Joe and the Nth Generation
The Big Hunger
Conditionally Human
The Darfsteller
Dark Benediction
The Lineman
Vengeance For Nikolai


You Triflin' Skunk!

THE RAIN SANG light in the sodden palmettos and the wind moaned through the pines about the
unpainted shack, whipping the sea of grass that billowed about the islands of scrub. The land lay bathed
in rain-haze beneath the pines. Rain trickled from the roof of the shack and made a rattling spray in the
rivulets under the eaves. Rain blew from the roof in foggy cloudlets. Rain played marimba-sounds on the