Space adventures and time travel, amazing extraterrestrial intelligent life and pressing problems of the future, in which our present is discernible, are the contents of a collection of science fiction works by US writers. Among the authors are R. Heinlein, D. Keys, R. Zhelyazin, D. Gunn, T. Sturgeon, G. Dixon. The collection completes the fourteen-volume library of American fiction.

CONTENTS: Robert Heinlein. The House That Teal Built (translation by D. Gorfinkel) Keith Reed. Automatic Tiger (translation by B. Belkin) Daniel Keyes. Flowers for Algernon (translation by S. Vasilyeva) Donald Westlake. Winner (translation by I. Avdakov) Robert Crane. Purple Fields (translation by N. Evdokimova) James McConnell. Theory of learning (translation by I. Gurova) Alfred Van Vogt. Clocks of time (translation by M. Gilinsky) Margaret St. Clair. Consumers (translation by Kir Bulychev) William F. Nolan. And fatigue closes my eyelids (translation by V. Kazantsev) Theodore Thomas. Broken Rule (translation by Kir Bulychev) Roger Zelazny. Keys to December (translation by V. Bakanov) Martin Gardner. The Island of Five Colors (translation by Yu. Danilov) George Samper Albee. Top (translation by S. Vasilyeva) James Gunn. Wherever you are (translation by Yu. Estrin) Theodore Sturgeon. Occam's Scalpel (translation by J. Berlin) William Morrison. Sack (translation by S. Berezhkov) Robert Young. Dandelion Girl (translation by Yu. Gershevich and D. Zhukov) Gordon R. Dixon. Lalangamena (translation by V. Bakanov) Theodore Thomas. Healer (translation by A. Korzhenevsky) Alan Arkin. Culinary possibilities (translation by A. Korzhenevsky) Robert Arthur. Stamps of the country of Eldorado (translation by A. Korzhenevsky) Damon Knight. The Big Boom (translation by A. Korzhenevsky) Kate Wilhelm. Baby, you were incomparable! (translation by A. Korzhenevsky) Anthony Butcher. The Search for Saint Aquinas (translation by A. Korzhenevsky) W. Hopman. The Time of Fiction

Printed according to the text of publications: Library of Contemporary Fiction. T. 10. - M.: Young Guard, 1967 Difficult task: Collection of science fiction works. - M.: Mir, 1982 American fiction: Collection. - M.: Rainbow, 1988 Lalangamena: Collection of science fiction works. - M.: Mir, 1985

Design: Alexander BykovThe book was published with the assistance of the joint-stock bank “Delovaya Rossiya”