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This book is the first volume of a two-book project that will bring back into print all of the science fiction and fantasy of William Tenn. This first volume, Immodest Proposals, contains the majority of William Tenn's short science fiction. It includes such classic stories as "Child's Play," "Time in Advance," "Down Among the Dead Men," and "On Venus, Have We Got a Rabbi."

Table of Contents:

• Bernie the Scheherazade - essay by Connie Willis
• Firewater - (1952)
• Lisbon Cubed - (1958)
• The Ghost Standard - (1994)
• The Flat-Eyed Monster - (1955)
• The Deserter - (1953)
• Venus and the Seven Sexes - (1949)
• Party of the Two Parts - (1954)
• The Liberation of Earth - (1953)
• Eastward Ho! - (1958)
• Null-P - (1951)
• The Masculinist Revolt - (1965)
• Brooklyn Project - (1948)
• Child's Play - (1947)
• Wednesday's Child - (1956)
• My Mother Was a Witch - (1966)
• The Lemon-Green Spaghetti-Loud Dynamite-Dribble Day - (1967)
• The Tenants - (1954)
• Generation of Noah - (1951)
• Down Among the Dead Men - (1954)
• Time in Advance - (1956)
• The Sickness - (1955)
• The Servant Problem - (1955)
• A Man of Family - (1956)
• The Jester - (1951)
• Project Hush - (1954)
• Winthrop Was Stubborn - (1957)
• The Dark Star - (1957)
• Consulate - (1948)
• The Last Bounce - (1950)
• Venus Is a Man's World - (1951)
• Alexander the Bait - (1946)
• The Custodian - (1953)
• On Venus, Have We Got a Rabbi - (1974)

Here Comes Civilization contains the novel Of Men and Monsters, as well as all of the short science fiction that was not included in the companion to this volume, Immodest Proposals. It includes such classic stories as "Bernie the Faust," "The Malted Milk Monster," and "The Discovery of Morniel Mathaway." Also included are several stories that have not been reprinted since their initial magazine publications as well as the short novel A Lamp for Medusa.

Table of Contents:

• Here Comes Civilization: Introduction - (2001) - essay by Robert Silverberg
• Bernie the Faust - (1963)
• Betelgeuse Bridge - (1951)
• "Will You Walk a Little Faster" - (1951)
• The House Dutiful - (1948)
• There Were People on Bikini, There Were People on Attu - (1983)
• She Only Goes Out at Night... - (1956)
• Mistress Sary - (1947)
• The Malted Milk Monster - (1959)
• The Human Angle - (1948)
• Everybody Loves Irving Bommer - (1951)
• A Matter of Frequency - (1951)
• The Ionian Cycle - (1948)
• Hallock's Madness - (1951)
• Ricardo's Virus - (1953)
• The Puzzle of Priipiirii - (1950)
• Dud - (1948)
• Confusion Cargo - (1948)
• The Discovery of Morniel Mathaway - (1955)
• Sanctuary - (1957)
• Me, Myself, and I - (1947)
• It Ends with a Flicker - (1956)
• The Girl with Some Kind of Past. And George. - (1993)
• Flirgleflip - (1950)
• Errand Boy - (1947)
• A Lamp for Medusa - (1951)
• On the Fiction in Science Fiction - (1954) - essay by William Tenn
• Of Men and Monsters - (1968) - novel by William Tenn
• Afterword: William Tenn: The Swiftest Tortoise - (2001) - essay by George Zebrowski