A fine collection of retro-future short stories from the 50s which run the gamut from Flash Gordon-like pulp in "Escape to Earth", to the more sobering "Doomsday's Color-Press" in which a newspaper editor discovers the deadly powers that can be unleashed with a bit of biased journalism (written decades before the term "fake news" was even coined). The gender-bending "Temple of Despair" gives a novel spin to the concept of slavery; "A Big Man with the Girls" makes light of a first contact scenario; and "If the Court Pleases" points out the legal ramifications of time travel. ( )