"First Ace printing: June 1982"--Title page verso.
Science fictional chess stories.
Contents
Introduction / Fred Saberhagen -- The marvelous brass chessplaying automaton / Gene Wolfe -- Unicorn variation / Roger Zelazny -- The immortal game / Poul Anderson -- Midnight by the Morphy watch / Fritz Lieber -- Unsound variations / George R.R. Martin -- A game of vlet / Joanna Russ -- Without a thought / Fred Saberhagen -- A board in the other direction / Ruth Berman -- Von Goom's gambit / Victor Contoski -- Kokomu / Daniel Gilbert -- Moxon's master / Ambrose Bierce -- Rendezvous 2062 / Robert Frazier -- Reflections on the looking-glass, an essay / Alfred Stewart.
