The Best of Lester Del Rey

The Pyrotechnics of Lester del Rey SF's most protean personality--writer, editor, critic, publisher--sets off an incomparable fireworks display in these tales of robots and humans, animals and aliens, ghosts and gods, science and the supernatural . . . HELEN O'LOYIf you want an ideal mate, build her! HEREAFTER, INC.This is Heaven? The hell it is! LITTLE JIMMYThe invisible kid was a ghost for sure. But whose? INSTINCTThe robots labored to re-create the extinct human species--but there was one element they somehow left out. FOR I AM A JEALOUS PEOPLE"In God We Trust" is a great motto--until you find you can't. And much more! About the Author Winner of the prestigious Nebula Grand Master Award, Lester del Rey was the author of more than forty books, including such classic science fiction novels as Nerves and The Eleventh Commandment and nonfiction works on atomic power, oceanography, photography, and many other science-related topics. His stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. In 1977, he and his wife, Judy-Lynn del Rey, formed Del Rey Books. Judy-Lynn became Editor-in-Chief, and Lester served as Fantasy editor discovering many authors who later became bestsellers, including Terry Brooks, David Eddings, Barbara Hambly, and Stephen R. Donaldson.