Enter the future world of Keith Laumer one of the most creatively compelling minds in sf Does the System threaten to punchcard you Watch Mart Maiden forced school dropout try to beat an infallible system on a Placement Test Anxious to escape smalltown living Take A Trip to the City with Bret Hale Beware the frightening world that awaits you at the end of an all too short train ride Feel like a prisoner in your own home Flora Trimble has been inside The Walls for so long that she doesnt even know if theres a world existing beyond her front door Theres a world beyond yours its all here The Universe According to Laumer 1967 essay by Harlan Ellison Hybrid 1961 story End as a Hero 1963 novelette The Walls 1963 story Dinochrome 1967 story aka Combat Unit Placement Test 1964 novelette Doorstep 1961 story The Long Remembered Thunder 1963 novelette Cocoon 1962 story A Trip to the City 1967 novelette by aka It Could Be Anything