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A MACFADDEN BOOK 1968
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Copyright, ©, 1965, by Sam Moskowitz. All rights reserved

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CONTENTS

THE VORTEX BLASTERS Edward E. Smith, Ph.D.
REQUIEM Edmond Hamilton
THE WITNESS Eric Frank Russell
KINDNESS Lester del Rey
"... WE ALSO WALK DOGS" Robert A. Heinlein
COMING ATTRACI"ION Fritz Leiber
WE GUARD THE BLACK PLANET! Henry Kuttner

Grateful acknowledgment is given to the following for permis­sion to use the
copyrighted material appearing in this anthology: Lurton Blassingame— ". . We
Also Walk. Dogs" by Robert A. Heinlein, from Astounding Science-Fiction, July,
1941. Copyright, 1941 by Street & Smith Publi­cations, Inc. Reprinted by
permission of the author and the author's agents, Lurton Blassingame. Fritz
Leiber—"Coming Attraction" by Fritz Leiber, from Galaxy Science Fiction,
No­vember, 1950. Copyright, 1950 by World Editions, Inc. "Kind­ness" by Lester
del Rey, from Astounding Science-Fiction, October, 1944. Copyright, 1944 by
Street & Smith Publica­tions, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the author and
the' author's agents, Scott Meredith Literary Agency, Inc. "Requi­em" by Edmond
Hamilton, from Amazing Stories, April, 1962. Copyright, 1962 by Ziff-Davis
Publishing Company. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author's
agents, Scot Meredith Literary Agency, Inc. "The Witness" by Eric Frank Russell,
from Other Worlds Science Stories, September, 1951. Copyright, 1951 by the Clark
Publishing Company. Reprinted by permission of the author and author's agents,
Scott Mere­dith Literary Agency, Inc. "The Vortex Blasters" by E. E. Smith,
Ph.D., from Comet, July, 1941. Copyright, 1941 by H-K Publications, Inc.
Reprinted by permission of the author and the author's agents, Scott Meredith
Literary Agency, Inc. "We Guard the Black Planet" by Henry Kuttner, from Super
Science Stories, November, 1942. Copyright, 1942 by Fictioneers, Inc. Reprinted
by permission of the copyright owners.

THE VORTEX BLASTER

Safety devices that do not protect.
The "unsinkable" ships that, before the days of Bergenholm and of atomic and
cosmic energy, sank into the waters of the earth.
More particularly, safety devices which, while protecting against one agent of
destruction, attract magnet-like another and worse. Such as the armored cable
within the walls of a wooden house. It protects the electrical conductors within