 This is a classic sci-fi anthology paperback that I bought a couple of months ago. It says here, science fiction writers in rare whimsical moods. I took that to mean that these would be absurd stories. Unfortunately, what they are is straight-up humor, and I've said before that I really cringe when authors who are not specialists at humor try to write humor, because it ends up being not funny and usually just bad writing. And that's pretty much what happened with all these stories here. There are 12 of them. Some of them I just had to skip entirely because they were so bad one of them was actually kind of racist. There's a few stories in here that were pretty good. I was somewhat impressed with Lookout Duck. It was okay science fiction. And I was very impressed with Make Mine Homogenized by Rick Raphael. It was a really well-written story, great characters, had good atmosphere. It was entertaining and, yes, it was funny. And then like so many of these stories, it ended on a bad pun. This was one of the longer stories in the book which I thought was kind of a waste. It was a 60-page story. The story or else by Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore was actually a really good story. It was an example of absurdism and satire that did not end on a silly pun or dad joke, but made its point really well. This is not a book that I would recommend. I would say if you've got some money to spend on some classic sci-fi anthologies, spend it on something else. I do want to point out one other thing here. It's this piece called Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghut by Grendel Briarton. That is an anagram of the author's real name. I don't recall his real name. You see here that the story is only two pages long. Actually it's only one page. But the Ferdinand Feghut stories started in the 1950s publishing in Fantasy and Science fiction magazine. He continued to write them for 20, 30 years. I remember seeing them at Asimov magazine in the early 80s. Like the first one here, each one is just a one-page story where Ferdinand Feghut solves some sort of science problem and then it ends on a bad pun. And these stories were so prolific and so popular that the word Feghut today actually means a one-page pun story. So if you ever run across that word Feghut in science fiction and you don't know what it means, this is what it means. There's a link in the description below.