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Dreaming Again

Grimes and the Gaijin Daimyo the first A Bertram Chandler story to be published in 24 year is now available in the Anthology Dreaming Again edited by Jack Dann.






















The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus 1980
(Cover Tom Stimpson)

Editor(s): Brian Aldiss
Publisher: Penguin (UK)
ISBN: 0-14-003145-6
Publication Date: 1980

The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus 1980

Short Story

Here is a challenge-to-the-Reader story, a stimulating puzzle for you to solve: How could you prove to a wholly alien life-form that you are a rational being? To the survivors of the wrecked spaceship Lode Star it was a challenge of a more vital sort - a riddle of life or death. I doubt if any reader will soon forget Mr. Chandler's pointed answer.