Kenneth Bulmer - The great game

Overblown galactic-spanning story featuring a competitive cabal of the super rich, their proteges, and aliens. The tech is especially creaky.

John Brunner - The hired help

After a devastating Second World War, which went very nuclear, aliens who look like us arrive and commence large-scale reconstruction, but not everyone trusts them...

Philip E. High - Risk economy

A spacer returns to Earth after a long flight to find people he expected long dead to be still alive...

Jonathan Burke - Colour bar

On a post-holocaust Earth survivors have taken on the names of famous past people. 'Washington' though is the only black man to survive. Slightly surreal.

W.T. Webb - Escape from Plenty

On an Earth that has turned its back on space, one man tries to live the old dream. Wooden. ( )