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Science fiction tales, some humorous and some not-so-funny, about the downside of the future - and how to deal with a universe ruled by Murphy's Law! Includes stories by Robert A. Heinlein, Sarah A. Hoyt, Fritz Leiber, Gordon R. Dickson, Lester del Rey, Christopher Anvil, Fredric Brown, and more.WHAT COULD GO WRONG . . . ? Progress! It's wonderful - though it sometimes has unexpected and undesirable side effects. Read the long warning list of possible side effects on a medicine bottle's label sometime . . . the part in really tiny print. But surely the benefits of modern technology outweigh the drawbacks. Until they don't. Remember how increasingly deadly weapons, from the machine gun to the H-bomb, were supposed to make war too horrific to even be contemplated? Didn't happen.