SYNOPSIS OF THE STORIES

 

 

A soldier of fortune is recruited to assassinate the god of an alien world in "The Bright Illusion";.

An ancient intelligent computer on a hidden island contemplates perfection, until a shipwrecked sailor brings chaos and confusion in "Greater Glories", (published here for the first time since 1935).

 A world-weary traveler makes a blind leap into adventure, and finds that true love is more complicated than it seems in "Tryst In Time".

 A man gains the full awareness of the ultimate consequences of his actions in "Greater Than Gods".

 A new kind of motion pictures have the power to kill in the title story, "Miracle In Three Dimensions".

 The legend of Eden is given a new twist in "Fruit Of Knowledge".

 Betrayal and revolution come to a strange alternate-universe Venus in "There Shall Be Darkness".

 An alien collector has his eyes on a beautiful human female to add to his favorite display case in "Doorway Into Time".

A woman finds herself driven to suicide in "here lies...", a crime story set in contemporary California, unseen since its first publication more than fifty years ago.