Turning On is a collection of thirteen science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 short stories by Damon Knight

Damon Knight

Damon Francis Knight was an American science fiction author, editor, critic and fan. His forte was short stories and he is widely acknowledged as having been a master of the genre.-Biography:...

. The stories were originally published between 1951 and 1965 in Galaxy, Analog and other science fiction magazines.

An Ace

Ace

An ace is a playing card. In the standard French deck, an ace has a single suit symbol located in the middle of the card, sometimes large and decorated, especially in the case of the Ace of Spades...

 paperback reprinting in 1967 omitted the story "The Handler". This story was also omitted in the 1966 reissue of the Doubleday hardback edition.

Contents

• "Semper Fi"
• "The Big Pat Boom"
• "Man in the Jar"
• "The Handler"
• "Mary"
• "Auto Da Fé
  Auto-da-Fé (short story)
  "Auto-da-Fé" is a short story by Roger Zelazny from Harlan Ellison's science fiction anthology Dangerous Visions.The title is a play on words involving the phrases auto-da-fé and automobile....
  
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• "To the Pure"
• "Eripmav"
• "Backward, O Time"
• "The Night of Lies"
• "Maid to Measure"
• "Collector's Item"
• "A Likely Story"
• "Don't Live in the Past"