James Blish

A small group of intellectuals from a primitive culture of modified monkey-like humans are banished from the treetops for heresy. In their exile on the ground they have to adapt to vastly different circumstances, fight monsters resembling dinosaurs, and finally happen upon the godly giants, whose existence they had questioned.

(Excerpt): "You can do a great deal if you have enough data, and enough time to compute on it, by logical methods. But given the situation that neither data nor time is adequate, and an answer must be produced ... what do you do?"

Wealthy sportsman Tom Newcliffe has bagged every sort of big game trophy ... all except one ... a werewolf! Newcliffe has summoned six guests to his isolated country estate for the weekend. Once they have arrived, he announces that one of them is a werewolf and that they are all part of a deadly game he has devised. The game will end when the moon is full and the cursed soul is hunted down and killed. Each guest has led a suspicious life, each leaving...