Possible Worlds of M Jameson, T Sturgeon & M St. Clair

One of my well-read commenters recently mentioned Groff Conklin's 1951 anthology Possible Worlds of Science Fiction and a story by Malcolm Jameson it reprints from Astounding, "Lilies of Life." Let's get that mouse wheel spinning and read "Lilies of Life" and two other stories from a scan of the hardcover edition of Possible Worlds of Science Fiction; this is a big book at 388 pages and it contains a bunch of stories worth looking at, but today we'll confine ourselves to exploring that Jameson story, the story by Ted Sturgeon of "Killdozer" fame and Margaret St. Clair's contribution.Before reading "Lilies of Life," "Completely Automatic" and "The Pillows," I'll note that of the 22 stories in Possible Worlds of Science Fiction we have already blogged about four, Frank Belknap Long's "Cones," James H. Schmitz's "Second Night of Summer," Arthur C. Clarke's "A Walk in the Dark," and Hal Clement's "Proof," I think I have read at least three more, the van Vogt, the Heinlein and theVance,…