This fifth Star is a little different than the rest: Though the cover art of every other volume in the series was created by Richard Powers and displays some of the best examples of his style and creativity, Number 5 is an exception: The artist is anonymous, his name absent from both the book, and, the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.
Well, the cover is still “sciency” enough: A rocket with satellite inside flies past a something-or-other satellite – or is it the moon? – as it creates a shock-wave.
Oh yes, as for the stories inside the book? (!) Though I recognize most of the authors, I confess to having read only one of these tales – “Adrift on the Policy Level” – was appeared in Asimov and Greenberg’s Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 21 (1959).
Contents
Trouble with Treaties, by Tom Condit and Katherine MacLean
A Touch of Grapefruit, by Richard Matheson
Company Store, by Robert Silverberg
Adrift on the Policy Level, by Chan (Chandler) Davis
Sparkie’s Fall, by Gavin Hyde
Star Descending, by Algis Budrys
Diplomatic Coop, by Daniel F. Galouye
The Scene Shifter, by Arthur Sellings
Hair-Raising Adventure, by Rosel George Brown