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Tales From The Galaxies was a science fiction anthology published in 1973 by Pan Books. 

This anthology contains four stories (The Red Stuff by John Wyndham, Miss Inman and the Kloots by Amabel Williams-Ellis, The Odour of Thought by Robert Sheckley and Exploration Team by Murray Leinster) and also a comic strip reprinted from Astounding Stories (The Heritage, which was illustrated by Malcom Stokes). The cover was illustrated by Alan Lee.

There’s a single illustration in the book, which is a picture of a Kloot from the story that is about Kloots. It was drawn by Mike Jackson. It’s really lovely.

The book doesn’t mengion who wrote the comic strip that they reprint. All it says was that it was illustrated by Malcolm Stokes and originally published in Astounding Stories. It doesn’t even say when it was first printed and just lists it as copyright unknown. It also feels like they’ve not printed all of it. I quite enjoyed it though, due to dinosaurs, and the spacemen’s incredibly haggard faces.

THE END, maybe.

 This set of Top Trumps were made by Waddingtons, and are from the early 80s. The set contained 32 cards.

I always liked the packs of top trumps that had a pack specific design on the back, like this pack, and the horror ones. I really hated the standard blue back with the boats and the cars and everything. It always made me feel slightly depressed.

Anyway, out of these dinosaurs and mammals and whatever, Eryops was always my favourite. Lovely Eryops.