EC JACK KAMEN AL FELDSTEIN MARTIAN MONSTER HC

Stories in this volume include ''The Martian Monster,'' in which a 9-year-old boy befriends a Martian in the woods and asks him to kill his stepmother — but the ''Martian'' convinces him that it’s really his father who he should target. There’s sharp social commentary in '' And Then There Were Two!'' (highly intelligent robots unveil a plan for world peace, but political opportunists launch an anti-robot campaign to discredit them) and ''Prediction of Disaster!'' (an astronomer concludes that our sun is about to go nova and tries to warn the world).