The Martian Monster and Other Stories

Stories in this volume include ＂The Martian Monster,＂ in which a 9-year-old boy befriends a Martian in the woods and asks him to kill his stepmother — but the ＂Martian＂ convinces him that it’s really his father who he should target. There’s sharp social commentary in ＂…And Then There Were Two!＂ (highly intelligent robots unveil a plan for world peace, but political opportunists launch an anti-robot campaign to discredit them) and ＂Prediction of Disaster!＂ (an astronomer concludes that our sun is about to go nova and tries to warn the world).