Tales of Science Fiction

I brought along a thin book to the recent waiting room extravaganza. My theory, based on the previous wait time of around 4 hours, was that I might try to finish this book of 173 pages before the surgery.  They were short stories so it didn't really matter. These were compiled in 1968 and there were a few key lines in there that I have heard before such as "This is not life as we know it" uttered again by Bones in one of the first Star Trek episodes.  Another one was a bit "Alien" like where a single fast growing embryonic organism was terrorising an isolated moon base.