Beyond, by Theodore Sturgeon

Rating: [I do not rate collections]

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Reviewed date: 2008 Jan 17

Pages: 187

• Need: In the small New York town, a man named Gorwing can sense people's needs.
• Abreaction: A bulldozer driver slips through to another universe; to get back, he must reenact the exact sequence of events that caused him to slip through.
• Nightmare Island: A drunkard castaway sailor becomes a god on an island of intelligent worms.
• Largo: Jealous composer murders with music.
• The Bones: A tinkerer invents a machine that plays back life experiences from bits of dead bone, and the sheriff persuades him to use it help solve a crime.
• Like Young: As mankind dies out, they determine to pass on their legacy of intelligence to the otters--but the otters have secrets of their own.