I have a real soft-spot for 1950's short story science-fiction, the 'golden-age' of science fiction literature in my opinion. I love the youthful exuberance and unabashed optimism that emanates from this pre-1960's Vietnam/Civil Rights/Nixon era of literature. Of course we now know that most of this stuff is absolutely impossible but the authors of this age wrote with such an innocence that my generation (I was born in 1967) and future generations will surely never experience.
Included in this volume are the classic Star Bright in which a young girl has superpowers that noone could possibly understand, A Woman's Place - a very early feminist work, and four or five other classics.
Mark Clifton may not be well known today but his writing is right up there with the other giants of the age. This collection is only available in ebook format but the stories are available elsewhere if you prefer a paper version.
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