Tom Godwin published his first of approximately thirty sf stories, "The Gulf Between", in Astounding in 1953, and soon after wrote his most famous and compelling tale, "The Cold Equations" (August 1954 Astounding Science Fiction), in which a girl stowaway on a precisely payloaded one-person scoutship must be jettisoned by its pilot, because to transport her extra mass would require more fuel than the ship carries, making disaster inevitable and also dooming the colony to which the ship is heading with the medical supplies necessary for its survival. "The Cold Equations" is a notable example of the mid-1950s science fiction genre.This collection contains 20 Tom Godwin stories originally published in science fiction magazines between 1953 and 1962, and includes the following stories:“The Gulf Between”, Astounding Science Fiction, October 1953“Mother of Invention”, Astounding Science Fiction, December 1953“The Greater Thing”, Astounding Science Fiction, February 1954“The Cold Equations”, Astounding Science Fiction, August 1954“No Species Alone”, Universe Science Fiction, November 1954“You Created Us”, Fantastic Universe, October 1955The Barbarians”, If, December 1955“Operation Opera”, Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1956“Brain Teaser”, Worlds of If, October 1956“Too Soon To Die”, Venture Science Fiction Magazine, March 1957“The Harvest”, Venture Science Fiction, July 1957“The Last Victory”, Worlds of If – August 1957“The Nothing Equation”, Amazing Stories, December 1957“My Brother—The Ape”, Amazing Stories – January 1958“The Wild Ones”, Science Fiction Stories – January 1958“Cry From A Far Planet”, Amazing Science Fiction Stories, September 1958“A Place Beyond The Stars”, Super-Science Fiction, February 1959“Empathy”, Fantastic Science Fiction, October 1959“The Helpful Hand Of God”, Analog, December 1961“—And Devious the Line of Duty”, Analog, December 1962