Conklin, Groff (ed) - Crossroads in Time / Конклин, Грофф (ред) - Перекрестки времени [1953, EPUB, ENG]

Assumption Unjustified / Обитатели Вселенной novella by Hal Clement The Eagles Gather short story by Joseph E. Kelleam The Queen's Astrologer short story by Murray Leinster "Derm Fool" / Таксидермист short story by Theodore Sturgeon Courtesy / Учтивость short story by Clifford D. Simak Secret short story by Lee Cahn Thirsty God short story by Margaret St. Clair The Mutant's Brother / Мутанты short story by Fritz Leiber Student Body / Ученик novelette by F. L. Wallace Made in U.S.A. / Сделано в США novelette by J. T. McIntosh Technical Advisor / Технический консультант short story by Chad Oliver Feedback short story by Katherine MacLean The Cave / Пещера novelette by P. Schuyler Miller Vocation short story by George O. Smith The Time Decelerator short story by A. Macfadyen, Jr. Zen / Дзен short story by Jerome Bixby Let There Be Light / Да будет свет short story by H. B. Fyfe The Brain / Голова short story by Norbert Wiener (as by W. Norbert)

When the stranger tapped furtively on the door of the Queen’s Astrologer in Ynarth, it was almost night. There was snow on the gabled roofs of all the huddled houses, and snow in the streets—all trodden and fouled by the footsteps of men—and there was a cap of snow resting rakishly on the head of Robin Ghaur, high up on a pole in the central square. The Queen had had Robin Ghaur executed some time since, very edifyingly and lingeringly, and had had his head—by special order neither flayed nor roasted nor crushed slowly between the jaws of a monstrous vise—put up on display to remind her subjects that rebellion was unhealthy. She had taken other measures too, which most of her subjects tried not to think about, but sometimes dreamed of. In consequence, the town and the kingdom of Ynarth was quite desperately loyal to the Queen in her palace which frowned down from the heights above them. . . .