Theodore Rose Cogswell (1918 – 1987) was an American science fiction author. His first published story, «The Spectre General» in the magazine ASTOUNDING (June 1952), was a humorous tale in which a long-forgotten maintenance brigade of the Imperial Space Marines holds the promise of reinvigorating a declining Galactic empire. It's a classic and was selected by the Science Fiction Writers of America as one of the greatest SF stories of all time. <P> This volume (a reissue of...
