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This brilliant Scotsman first began writing for American publication in 1950, and has since had a sizable number of first-rate science fictions in our magazines. Oddly enough, though, "Unit" (one of his best creations) has never seen the American light before, having appeared previously in the British New Worlds in 1957, and nowhere else.
It is a pleasure to remedy that omission: for the story surely is one of the best in the parapsychological area, and specifically In the rarefied region which Theodore Sturgeon, in his classic More Than Human, defined as "homo gestalt. " This involves the creation of a complete "personality" out of the separate talents of a small, close-knit group of individuals.