The Year's Best Science Fiction 9

Mr. Ettinger’s article on immortality was completely serious opinion based on available facts; and “Limbo” was at least perfectly rational within its own premises.

The next story is totally improbable...but it deals with a kind of immortality that I understand—personally, subjectively.

Just about here, the words all start to turn inside out: this next story deals with alienation from reality—or deals with realistic alienation between son and father—or really deals out an alien—or perhaps it is just that the son really resolves things with a deal involving alienation. . . .