The collision of a person with history, with alien worlds, with new experiences, previously unthinkable, are collisions characteristic of fantastic literature. In the English writer Edmund Cooper they find an original artistic embodiment, which distinguishes real, deep literature. The problems that global evolution poses to man are moral problems for E. Cooper’s heroes. The novels in this collection are fascinating because they are written by a master; they are also valuable because they provide considerable food for the reader’s mind.