A collection of stories that is far superior to the appallingly dreadful pulp cover it was saddled with.

In it is a very short story, "The Wheel", and I can't help but wonder if this was an early dry run for Wyndham's truly excellent novel The Chrysalids. The similarity is not so much in character (though the relationship between a young boy and an older relative prefigures that between David and Uncle Axel) but in the theme of post-apocalypse and religious repression. Given that The Chrysalids is one of my favourite books of all time, I found this a particularly interesting story, if one that's unusually heavy-handed for Wyndham. The remaining stories are all enjoyable, if not outstanding or even particularly memorable.