Danger-Human

Harlan Ellison wrote of this book: "The kudos go to Gordon Dickson, a man who has been writing science fiction for twenty years yet has somehow been overlooked when lists of the top writers are assembled. Eschewing pyrotechnics and trickery, he has long been amassing a body of short stories that are startlingly impressive when gathered together. The thirteen fictions range from studies of alien cultures in contact and conflict with humans to examination of men under the vise-pressure of future shock. Dolphin's Way in particular, is a story of such emotional originality that it easily commends itself to the attention of any English professor seeking a model for the perfect modern short story." (from the back cover of the DAW Books first printing)