Seeking sci fyi book of short stories
I remeber a few of the stories, not in greatvdetail, and somewhat strange to explain in detail. The book was missing the potecive cover, which left it burgandy or navy blue. It was a book the size of a good dictionary. Said it had short stories. So I read them. Its name did prepare my mind to be open to the fictional worlds imagined in the short stories. One of the short stories, was about time travel. I remember it taking place in a single room. A man. The color brown is prominent in my memory. Perbaps dimly lit. A hat. A top hat. Not a sad man, but I remember he felt like <PERSON> is protrayed as feeling. Thats all I remember. Another story in the book was about human spirit, or soul attaching to aliens that had long limbs. Like an upturned spider? The process of attaching to one was painful. 944
But one could not live without the other. The alien bodies allowed humans to survive in space. Once attached and wandering space, the beings would be,lucky to ever see another one. Maybe something about birth, and that experience? Another story was about people that had smooth faces. Mens faces had evolved away from the primitive deep brow and chissled jaw line to be more feminine in structure. Signaling our evolution twards being smarter. Less caveman like. I feel like the group was maybe exploring a new world, primitive, with plants that were dangerous? Or a crashed ship? Another story in the same book, was about living after dying. It was a choice? It went into great detail about the emotions involved in being dead. The dead were kind of snobby? They gave up pleasures of the living, like food. Or the feel of fabric? I remember the character of the story getting to travel to africa? Perhaps the deads were treated differently? I remember the characters, or the deads, as feeling like they were at a higher existence then the living. Better then the warms? Perhaps is what they called them. I read the book in Texas in a garage, in 2015. But I belive it to had been written, in the 60s 70s or 80s. I have been trying to find these short stories for years. Im excited to have found this place. Where I can ask the many. Thank you for any help. 1012