This is a collection of short stories all published in issues of "TheMagazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction" in 1960 except for "The Large Ant"which was published in the Feb-1960 issue of "Fantastic Universe."

Contents:

The First Men (Revised and reissued as "The Trap" in 1967)
The Large Ant (Possibly also known as "The Big Ant")
Of Time and Cats
Cato the Martian
The Cold Cold Box
The Martian Shop
The Sight of Eden

You will encounter in THE EDGE OF TOMORROW one interplanetaryplayground where clothing is prohibited, one big, benevolent bug on amysterious mission, and three hundred perfectly honorable killers. You maywonder how Howard Fast, the famous American novelist, felt when such weirdideas popped into his head.

But he was not confused—he wrote them right out of his mind intosome of the most intriguing stories ever conceived.

Science Fiction has come of age when it attracts one of the foremostliterary figures of our century!

Way out around the fringes of consciousness Howard Fast found some ideasthat were too bold and terrifying for the here and now. They leaped thebarriers of time and imagination and found their place in some of the moststartling, provocative science fiction stories ever written. Here, in time,space and the galaxy, is all the storytelling genius of the celebratedauthor of SPARTACUS.