Dangerous Vegetables

Keith Laumer passed away while developing this collection about dangerous, well, vegetables. It completed by Charles Waugh and Martin Greenberg. If the title sounds familiar, blame Harlan Ellison. Contents: Introduction: - Mostly About Keith Laumer - Ben Bova Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar! - Ray Bradbury Pressure - Fred Saberhagen Rogue Tomato - Michael Bishop The Ultimate Catalyst - John Taine Manna - John Christopher The Potato - Bentley Little Cannibal Plants from Heck - David Drake Black Harvest of Moraine - Arthur J. Burks No Harm Done - Jack Sharkey The Cactus - Mildred Johnson Look, You Think You've Got Troubles - Carol Carr The Pure Essence - Irwin Sonenfield Pumpkin Head - Al Sarrantonio You Say Potato, I Say... Trouble - Lawrence Schimel The Crime of Micah Rood - Elia W. Peattie Root of Evil - Edward Wellen Step Into My Garden - Frank Belknap Long Cordle to Onion to Carrot - Robert Sheckley Night Bloomer - David J. Schow Strange Harvest - Donald Wandrei Pumpkin - Bill Pronzini The White Fruit of Banaldar - John D. MacDonald Do you ever worry about your vegetables eating you? Maybe you should. As those who doted on his "Retief" stories know, Keith Laumer was a man who delighted in his own genuinely twisted sense of humor. Though he left us before he could complete this book, the publisher hopes that he, wherever he is, as well as the audience, like how we finished it for him. Introduction by Ben Bova. A collection of space adventure stories where Earth is attacked by vegetables includes stories by Ray Bradbury, Fred Saberhagen, John Christopher, and others Boys! Raise giant mushrooms in your cellar! Pressure Rogue tomato The ultimate catalyst Manna The potato Cannibal plants from Heck Stack harvest of Moraine No harm done The cactus Look, you think you've got troubles The pure essence Pumpkin head You say potato, I say ... trouble The crime of Micah Rood Root of evil Step into my garden Cordle to onion to carrot Night bloomer Strange harvest Pumpkin The White fruit of Banalder Do you ever worry about your vegetables eating you? Maybe you should. As those who doted on his "Retief" stories know, Keith Laumer was a man who delighted in his own genuinely twisted sense of humor. Though he left us before he could complete this book, the publisher hopes that he, wherever he is, as well as the audience, like how this novel has been finished for him. Introduction by Ben Bova. A collection of twenty-two science fiction stories where vegetables suddenly become human-like