SPECTRUM 5 Author:Kingsley Amis, Robert Conquest (Editors) THE FIFTH SPECTRUM — Optimism is the prevailing note in Spectrum 5, which consists of eight uncommonly substantial stories, most with a happy and sometimes exhilarating ending. Among other matters, they deal with how humanity graduates into Galactic society; how twenty-eight days on the Moon completely change a spaceman's concept of life; how a ... more »precocious youth brings about communication between alien cultures on a remote planet; and how scientifically, the impossible is achieved in two weeks...
"A good, thoroughly enjoyable collection." -Hartford Courant