Cover art by Joe Adams. Introduction by Gordon R. Dickson. This anthology contains: Kings Who Die by Poul Anderson; Second Variety by Philip K. Dick; There is No Defense by Theodore Sturgeon; Smasher by Fred Saberhagen; Flesh and the Iron by Larry S. Todd; A Relic of War by Keith Laumer; The Dukes of Desire by Christopher Anvil; and Steel Brother by Gordon R. Dickson.
Charles Gordon Waugh was born in Philadelphia, PA, in 1943. He has published over 261 books, most of which are SF, fantasy, or horror anthologies and he has taught at Syracuse University, Ithaca College, Kent State University, and the University of Maine at Augusta.
Waugh is known primarily as a co-editor (with Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg) of the “Mammoth Book” series of genre anthologies.