Seven stones by the ever-outrageous Alfred Pester, the first installment in a projected two-volume florilegium dedicated to one of the great Golden and post-Golden innovators. Among the best Pester: the robot-on-the-lam ""Fondly Fahrenheit""; ""Disappearing Act"" (a time-travel wrinkle of particular, uh, irony); the novella-length ""Hell Is Forever"" (an antic Walpurgisnacht of the undead).