There are eight imaginative excursions in this classic collection that will take you out of this world and out of time, posing such questions as: how would the human mind react in a non-human body, and would universal laughter save the world? The collection includes Basis for Negotiation, in which Britain is the neutral country in a Third World War; The Game of God, a true science fiction about parasitology; and Old Hundredth, which was written for the centenary edition of New Worlds, Britain's oldest science fiction magazine.