A classic SF tale of what happens when four alternative selves from different realities meet. New edition.

On the twin colony planets of Saintes Anne and Croix, civilization is a mix of the archaic and the futuristic, with slavery and advanced science co-existing. Were the shapeshifting alien inhabitants of Sainte Anne exterminated by the colonists, or did they kill the humans and adopt their identity?

Presents stories which are based on the author's own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. This title describes a world where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; and, where the difference between human beings is reduced to a second bowl of soup.

Tells the story of Jommy Cross, the orphan boy mutant, an outcast from a future society prejudiced against mutants, who grows up to be a superman and to represent the next stage in human evolution.