This is a collection of seven fantastic and short science fiction stories by Harry Harrison. The stories include: (1) The Misplaced Battleship (It might seem a little careless to lose track of something as big as a battleship ... but interstellar space is on a different scale of magnitude. But a misplaced battleship—in the wrong hands!—can be most dangerous), (2) Arm of the Law (How could a robot—a machine, after all—be involved in something like law application and violence?), (3) Toy Shop (The gadget was strictly, beyond any question, a toy.
Not a real, workable device. Except for the way it could work under a man's mental skin....), (4) The Repairman (Being an interstellar trouble shooter wouldn’t be so bad … if I could shoot the trouble!), (5) The K-Factor (Speed never hurt anybody—it's the sudden stop at the end. It's not how much change that signals danger, but how fast it's changing....), (6) Navy Day (The Army had a new theme song: "Anything you can do, we can do better!" And they meant anything, including up-to-date hornpipes!), and (7) The Velvet Glove (This is a not too distant future where robots—particularly specialist robots who don't know their place—have quite a rough time of it. True, the Robot Equality Act had been passed—but so what?). It is a pleasure to publish this new, high quality, and affordable edition of these timeless stories.
