About the book: 2016 / Harry Garrison published his first science fiction story, “Penetrated into the Rocks,” in 1950. Years passed, Harrison became a famous writer, one of the pillars of the genre, the author of dozens of novels and many hundreds of stories. And so, on the threshold of the new millennium, he personally compiled this collection of 50 of his best and favorite stories - a kind of report on the first 50 years of successful work in science fiction.