Final Stage

Notes

• The hardcover edition was heavily edited and abridged by the publisher. The paperback reprint restored the original text.
• The concept was to have the "ultimate" story about: first contact, the exploration of space, immortality, inner space, robots and androids, strange children, 2 x future sex, space opera, alternate universes, the uncontrolled machine, after the Holocaust, time travel.

• No statement of edition or printing.
• No stated date of publication in book.
• Publication date submitted with copyright registration was May 16, 1974.
• Copyright page contains the ISBN (0-88327-035-8) and LCCN (73-91122).
• All stories (except for Asimov's) are original to this anthology, but they were heavily rewritten and cut by the publisher without the consent or knowledge of the editors or the authors. The 1975 Penguin paperback restored the original versions.