8 authors, named Grand Masters by the Science Fiction Writers of America, choose their finest short stories. Each story is accompanied by a biographical note, an introduction, and a list of the author's significant stories and novels, by Andre Norton. The book includes an Introduction by Robert Bloch; and these stories: "The Long Watch," by Robert A Heinlein "With Folded Hands," by Jack Williamson "The Autumn Land," by Clifford Simak "A Gun for Dinosaur," by L Sprague de Camp "Lean Times in Lankhmar," by Fritz Leiber "Toads of Grimmerdale," by Andre Norton "Transit of Earth," by Arthur C Clarke "The Last Question," by Isaac Asimov Alas, all these Grand Masters have passed on to that great typewriter in the sky, Arthur C Clarke leaving us most recently (2008).