Carr, Terry (ed) - Science Fiction for People Who Hate Science Fiction / Карр, Терри (ред) - НФ для тех, кто не любит НФ [1966, epub, ENG]

The Star / Звезда short story by Arthur C. Clarke A Sound of Thunder / И грянул гром short story by Ray Bradbury The Year of the Jackpot / Год окончания игры novelette by Robert A. Heinlein The Man with English / И всё он перепутал short story by H. L. Gold In Hiding / В укрытии novelette by Wilmar H. Shiras Not with a Bang / Бесславный конец, или Дверями не хлопать short story by Damon Knight Love Called This Thing / Эту штуку называют любовью short story by Avram Davidson and Laura Goforth The Weapon / Оружие short story by Fredric Brown What's It Like Out There? / Как там, в небесах? novelette by Edmond Hamilton

Ten months after the last plane passed over, Rolf Smith knew beyond doubt that only one other human being had survived. Her name was Louise Oliver, and he was sitting opposite her in a department-store café in Salt Lake City. They were eating canned Vienna sausages and drinking coffee. Sunlight struck through a broken pane like a judgment. Inside and outside, there was no sound; only a stifling rumour of absence. The clatter of dishware in the kitchen, the heavy rumble of streetcars: never again. There was sunlight; and silence; and the watery, astonished eyes of Louise Oliver. He leaned forward, trying to capture the attention of those fishlike eyes for a second. “Darling,” he said, “I respect your views, naturally. But I’ve got to make you see that they’re impractical.” . . .