the Last Gods Diepages by Fritz Leiber
OK, The last humans have seen it all and come back to Earth to die, A machine they created asks them to reconsider, to keep on living, Sort of like a grandchild wanting their grandparents to live on, Nice description of machines developing from lever to more complex to automated to calculating to AI to sentience,
The Haunted Tickerpages by Percival Wilde
Good, Jonas was an old man always trying to get rich, At seventy and an ailing heart he finally figured out a system to make money on the stock market, He died without being able to pass on the system to his nephew, but one stock market ticker in that same brokerage office spit out his coded messages.
Henry who was just going to be conservative used those messages to increase his fortune,
O Ugly Bird!pages by Manly W, Wellman
Good/VG. A wanderer is passing through a back woods town and finds Mr, Ormley takes whatever he wants,
The Ratspages by Arthur Porges
Good, Jeffrey Clark has his bomb shelter or settlement at an abandoned atomic testing site, The only problem are the rats that threaten his food supply, He tries to various methods of taking them out, but only manages to take out a fraction of them before they learn to avoid or nullify it.
Built Down Logicallypages by Howard Schoenfeld
OK, Mildly humorous punch line.
The Earlier Servicepages by Margaret Irwin
Good, Creepy. Jane has been getting scary visions about the church, Her father is the rector and it's coming up to the time of her confirmation, The sense of dread that Jane is feeling comes across very well,
The Universe Broke Downpages by Robert Arthur
Good, Jeremiah Jupiter has dragged Lucius out to test another crazy invention, This time a wormhole type device,
Come On, Wagon!pages by Zenna Henderson
Good, A bachelor doesn't like kids, They don't know how the world works, He notices his nephew a couple of times talking to his wagon as if it would follow him like a dog,
The House in Arbor Lanepages by James S, Hart
Very Good. We hear the prosecution side of a murder case and then the defense, The fantasy, the blurb says occult, part of the story is slipped in very matter of factly,
The Hyperspatial Basketballpages by H, Nearing jr.
Good/VG. Ransom wants basketball players to concentrate on their studies and challenges the coach to a game with the caveat that he is bringing the ball.
The fourth dimension part of the story is passable, but the characters, gamesmanship, MacTate as the referee is great,
CONTENTS:
When the Last Gods Die Fritz Leiber
The Haunted Ticker Percival Wilde
O Ugly Bird! Manly Wade Wellman
The Rats Arthur Porges
Built Down Logically Howard Schoenfeld
The Earlier Service Margaret Irwin
The Universe Broke Down Robert Arthur
Come On, Wagon! Zenna Henderson
The House in Arbor Lane James S.
Hart
Ganymedeus Sapiens: a Pictorial History Skiametric Morphology and Behaviorism of Ganymedeus Sapiens: a Summary of Neoteric Hypotheses Kenneth R, Deardorf
The Hyperspherical Basketball H, Nearing Jr.
Cover art credited to George Salter isfdb, org.
Anthony Boucher born William Anthony Parker White August,April,was an American science fiction editor and author of mystery novels and short stories.
He was particularly influential as an editor, Betweenandhe acted as reviewer of mostly mystery fiction for the San Francisco Chronicle, In addition to Anthony Boucher, White
also employed the pseudonym sitelink H, H. Holmes, which was the name of ath century serial killer, In a poll ofdetective story writers and reviewers, his novel Nine Times Nine was voted as the ninth best locked room mystery of all time.
White was born in Oakland, California, and went to college at the University of Southern California, He later received a Masters degree from the Univers Anthony Boucher born William Anthony Parker White August,April,was an American science fiction editor and author of mystery novels and short stories.
He was particularly influential as an editor, Betweenandhe acted as reviewer of mostly mystery fiction for the San Francisco Chronicle, In addition to 'Anthony Boucher,' White also employed the pseudonym sitelink 'H, H. Holmes', which was the name of ath century serial killer, In a poll ofdetective story writers and reviewers, his novel Nine Times Nine was voted as the ninth best locked room mystery of all time.
White was born in Oakland, California, and went to college at the University of Southern California, He later received a Masters degree from the University of California, Berkeley, He was admired for his mystery writing but was most noted for his editing, his science fiction anthologies, and his mystery reviews for many years in The New York Times.
He was the first English translator of Jorge Luis Borges, translating "El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan" for Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.
He helped found the Mystery Writers of America inand, in the same year, was one of the first winners of the MWA's Edgar Award for his mystery reviews in the San Francisco Chronicle.
He was founding editor with J, Francis McComas of The Magazine of Fantasy Science Fiction fromto, and was seminal in attempting to make literary quality an important aspect of science fiction.
He won the Hugo Award for Best Professional Magazine inand, Boucher also edited the long running Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction anthology series,, His short story "The Quest for Saint Aquin" was among the stories selected inby the Science Fiction Writers of America as one of the best science fiction short stories of all time.
As such, it was published in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One,, Boucher also scripted for radio and was involved in many other activities, as described by William F, Nolan in his essay, "Who Was Anthony Boucher": Thes proved to be a very busy and productive decade for Boucher, Inhe launched into a spectacular three year radio career, plotting thanepisodes for The Adventures of Ellery Queen, while also providing plots for the bulk of the Sherlock Holmes radio dramas.
By the summer ofhe had created his own mystery series for the airwaves, The Casebook of Gregory Hood, "I was turning out three scripts each week for as many shows," he stated, "It was a mix of hard work and great fun, " Tony left dramatic radio in, "mainly because I was putting in a lot of hours working with J, Francis McComas in creating what soon became The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, We got it off the ground inand saw it take hold solidly by, This was a major creative challenge and although I was involved in a lot of other projects, I stayed with FSF into, " Indeed, throughout his years with the magazine, Boucher was certainly involved in "a lot of other projects, " Among them: Supplying the SF and crime markets with new fiction, Teaching an informal writing class from his home in Berkeley, Continuing his Sunday mystery columns for the New York Times Book , Functioning as chief critic for Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, ing SF and fantasy as H, H. Holmes for the New York Herald Tribune, Editing True Crime Detective. Supervising the Mercury Mystery Line and later the Dell Great Mystery Library, Hosting Golden Voices, his series of historical opera recordings for Pacifica Radio, Serving inas president of Mystery Writers of America, In addition to all of this, Tony was a devoted poker player, a political activist, a rabid sport fan sitelink,