Hallucination Orbit
Twelve science fiction stories which explore the complexities and limitations of the human mind as it responds to unusual situations, bizarre societies, and unorthodox problems. Includes a brief analysis of each story.

It's a Good Life - short story by Jerome Bixby
[The Sound Machine](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8318678W) - short story by Roald Dahl
Hallucination Orbit - novelette by J. T. McIntosh
The Winner - short story by Donald E. Westlake
A Rose by Other Name ... - short story by Christopher Anvil (variant of A Rose By Other Name 1959)
The Man Who Never Forgot - short story by Robert Silverberg
Runaround - novelette by Isaac Asimov
Absalom - short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner]
Wings Out of Shadow - novelette by Fred Saberhagen
In Case of Fire - short story by Randall Garrett
What Friends Are For - short story by John Brunner
The Drivers - short story by Edward W. Ludwig
American Science fiction, Psychology, Children's stories, American, Juvenile fiction, Children's stories, English
Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, Jerome Bixby, Roald Dahl, J. T. McIntosh, Donald E. Westlake, Christopher Anvil, Robert Silverberg, Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore, Fred Saberhagen, Randall Garrett, John Brunner, Edward W. Ludwig
Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers.  Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2.  His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy store when he was three years old.  He taught himself to read at the age of five. He began reading the science fiction pulp magazines that his family's store carried. Around the age of eleven, he began to write his own stories, and by age nineteen, he was selling them to the science fiction magazines. He graduated from Columbia University in 1939. He married Gertrude Blugerman in 1942.  During World War II he worked as a civilian at the Philadelphia Navy Yard's Naval Air Experimental Station.  After the war, he returned to Columbia University and earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1948.  He then joined the faculty of the Boston University School of Medicine until 1958, when he became a full-time writer. His first novel, [Pebble in the Sky](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL46402W), was published in 1950. He and his wife divorced in 1973, and he married Janet O. Jeppson the same year. He was a highly prolific writer, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 9,000 letters and postcards. || Martin Harry Greenberg (March 1, 1941 – June 25, 2011) was an American academic and anthologist in many genres, including mysteries and horror, but especially in speculative fiction. In all, he compiled 1,298 anthologies and commissioned over 8,200 original short stories. He founded Tekno Books, a packager of more than 2000 published books. He was also a co-founder of the Sci-Fi Channel. Greenberg was also an expert in terrorism and the Middle East. He was a longtime friend, colleague and business partner of Isaac Asimov. || Drexel Jerome Lewis Bixby || Roald Dahl was a British novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter.

Born in north Cardiff, Wales, to Norwegian parents, Dahl served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, in which he became a flying ace and intelligence agent. He rose to prominence in the 1940s with works for both children and adults, and became one of the world's bestselling authors. His short stories are known for their unexpected endings, and his children's books for their unsentimental, often very dark humour. ([Source][1].)


  [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl || James Murdoch MacGregor was a Scottish journalist and author best known for writing science fiction under the pen name J.T. McIntosh. || Donald Edwin Westlake was an American writer, with over a hundred novels and non-fiction books to his credit, writing under at least 20 pseudonyms. He specialized in crime fiction, especially comic capers, with an occasional foray into science fiction or other genres. He was a three-time Edgar Award winner and in 1993, the Mystery Writers of America named Westlake a Grand Master, the highest honor bestowed by the society.             Source: wikipedia || "Christopher Anvil" is a pseudonym used by author Harry C. Crosby (1922-2009).

Harry Crosby's first published short story was "Cinderella, Inc.", which appeared in the December 1952 issue of Imagination.  By 1956, he had adopted the pseudonym and was being published in Astounding Magazine.  His first published book was The Day the Machines Stopped (1964).  He is best known for his Federation of Humanity series, which he referred to as the Colonization Series before they were published as collections.  Most of his published works are short stories, and he has also produced four novels. || Robert Silverberg is an American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.

Silverberg received a Nebula award in 1986 for his novella Sailing to Byzantium, which takes its name from Yeats' poem; a Hugo in 1990 for Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another; and in 2004 he was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America.

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  [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Silverberg || Henry Kuttner was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and horror. || Catherine Lucille Moore || Randall Garrett was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a prolific contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. Garrett is best known for the Lord Darcy books, the novel Too Many Magicians and two short story collections.

He was also an inveterate punster (defining a pun as "the odor given off by a decaying mind"), he was a favorite guest at science fiction convention.

Source: wikipedia || British author of science fiction novels and stories.