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The Rim Worlds

... out on the Galactic Rim things are very iffy and if you fart really hard your're liable to blow yourself on to an Alternate Time Track.

A Bertram Chandler.
























The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus 1976
(Cover Peter Jones)

Editor(s): Brian Aldiss
Publisher: Penguin (UK)
ISBN: 0-14-003145-6
Publication Date: 1976

The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus 1976

Short Story

Here is a challenge-to-the-Reader story, a stimulating puzzle for you to solve: How could you prove to a wholly alien life-form that you are a rational being? To the survivors of the wrecked spaceship Lode Star it was a challenge of a more vital sort - a riddle of life or death. I doubt if any reader will soon forget Mr. Chandler's pointed answer.