Contains novellas, novels and short stories in the classic style: The Scavengers - After a calamity wiped out most of earth's population a hundred years before, the remaining million or so souls has divided up AND Mountain Of The Ancients PLUS Genius - A very wealthy man tries to regain happiness PLUS Duplicity, is a story set in the near future and it's about a female police detective investigating a crime AND Radiation Can Really Mess Things Up PLUS Raymond The Automatic House - A surviving government official after a worldwide upheaval manages to escape a ravaging mob AND Two Terran Spies On An Alien Planet - A government official on a planet currently at war with earth, finds two supposed spies at a bar and suspects they are Terran agents PLUS The Pied Piper of Spring AND Rio Temporal PLUS Weather Modification Sucks - A man with a restaurant on top of a hill worries about what will happen when local officials try to control the weather.