Contentsxiii • Preface (Magicats!) • essay by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann1 • Space-Time for Springers • [Gummitch the Cat] • (1958) • shortstory by Fritz Leiber15 • The Game of Rat and Dragon • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1955)
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