Contents: Make Mine Mars, The Meddlers, The Events Leading Down to the Tragedy, The Little Black Bag (2001 Retro Hugo award, best novelette of 1950), Everybody Knows Joe, Time Bum, Passion Pills, Virginia, The Slave, Kazam Collects, The Last Man Left in the Bar, The Adventurer, The Words of Guru (voted into the Fantasy Hall of Fame by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America), Shark Ship (aka Reap the Dark Tide) (nominated, 1959 Hugo Award), and Two Dooms. Most of these stories have not been reprinted except in this collection, and the NESFA edition of Kornbluth's complete stories.