1. The trade paperback edition of Anvil's "Interstellar Patrol" (04/03), was a "Locus "best seller, and has a sell through of 72% from April 2003 to date. 2. Like Keith Laumer, Anvil has a rare ability to combine fast-moving adventure with humor, deftly skewering the bureaucratic mind, whether human[...]

Science and technology have made our lives easier, curing diseases with achievements that an earlier age would have considered impossible. But once in a while, the law of unintended consequences breaks loose. Christopher Anvil considers the two faces of technological innovation: Sometimes the result[...]

Humans - there's no understanding them, and no dealing with them either. Or even their planet. Pity the poor aliens, whose shape-changing ability should let them take over the planet Earth before the humans even know they're there - if it weren't for all that omnipresent pollution. Or consider anoth[...]