Bluejay Books, 1986. Hardcover with dustjacket, first edition. Retrospective anthology, most works have a forward by the story’s author. Introduction by Frederik Pohl, “As IF Was in the Beginning” (essay) by Larry T. Shaw , “Afterword: Flash Point, Middle” (essay) by Barry N. Malzberg, and these stories: ”The Golden Man” (1954) by Philip K. Dick “The Battle” (1954) by Robert Sheckley “Last Rites” (1955) by Charles Beaumont “Game Preserve” (1957) by Rog Phillips “The Burning of the Brain” (1958) by Cordwainer Smith “The Man Who Tasted Ashes” (1959) by Algis Budrys “Kings Who Die” (1962) by Poul Anderson “Fortress Ship” [Berserker] (1963) by Fred Saberhagen “Father of the Stars” (1964) by Frederik Pohl “Trick or Treaty” [Retief] (1965) by Keith Laumer “Nine Hundred Grandmothers” (1966) by R. A. Lafferty “Neutron Star [Known Space]” (1966) by Larry Niven “This Mortal Mountain” (1967) by Roger Zelazny “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” (1967) by Harlan Ellison “Driftglass” (1967) by Samuel R. Delany “The Holmes-Ginsbook Device” (1968) by Isaac Asimov “Down in the Black Gang” (1969) by Philip José Farmer “The Reality Trip” (1970) by Robert Silverberg “The Nightblooming Saurian” (1970) by James Tiptree, Jr. “Occam's Scalpel” (1971) by Theodore Sturgeon “Construction Shack” (1973) by Clifford D. Simak “Time Deer” (1974) by Craig Strete
This book is part of the Anthologies series and is book #112 in the series.