Stories in this volume include The Martian Monster, in which a 9-year-old boy befriends a Martian in the woods and asks him to kill his stepmother
but the Martian convinces him that it’s really his father who he should target. There’s sharp social commentary in …And Then There Were Two! (highly intelligent robots unveil a plan for world peace, but political opportunists launch an anti-robot campaign to discredit them) and Prediction of Disaster! (an astronomer concludes that our sun is about to go nova and tries to warn the world).