Edgar Pangborn: Stories

When adopting a pet, choose the species that is most intelligent, obedient, loyal, fun to play with, yet a shrewd, fearless protector. For the best in pets--choose a human being!

You can't blame an alien for a little inconvenience--as long as he makes up for it!

What more fitting place for the last man on Earth to live in than a museum? Now if only he could avoid becoming an exhibit himself!

After eleven years in space, the Argo landed on the dangerous, unknown planet Lucifer. The crew faced an untamed world of huge, carnivorous birds with wolverine heads and flashing black teeth; furred, ten-foot-tall men; and red-skinned, man-eating pygmies. They fought for mere survival. But their duty was to colonize and populate the planet... with four men and only two women!