Publisher's Synopsis
- This new collection of stories by Christopher Anvil, the master of humorousscience fiction adventure, features the full-length novel, The Day theMachines Stopped - and what happens, not just to civilization, but tohumanity and its chances of survival when all the machines stop working atonce?
- Plus, for the first time in book form, Anvil's stories of Richard Verner,who is called in to solve apparently insoluble problems, such as explaining whyexperimental missiles keep failing for no apparent reason, or locating akidnapped judge, or even solving an inexplicable murder that's interrupting hisvacation.