Merril-approved 1959 stories by T Godwin, "D Gordon," & W L Gresham

After "F" comes "G." Back on July 9, we read three stories published in 1959 by authors whose names begin with "F," stories that Judith Merril, renowned anthologist, had recommended. On the same list of Honorable Mentions in the back of Merril's critically acclaimed The Year's Best S-F: Fifth Annual Edition we find six stories by author's whose names begin with "G." We're reading four of these, skipping Daniel F. Galouye's "The City of Force" because I read it in Bodyguard and Four Other Short Novels from Galaxy back in my New York days and Ron Goulart's "Parlor Game" because I avoid joke stories and always assume that is what Goulart is selling, and I am not in the market for joke stories. But we've still got four capers torn from the science fiction magazines of the second Eisenhower term to explore."Empathy" by Tom Godwin Let's see what kind of story Merril thought worth promoting that was penned by Tom Godwin, author of the controversial "Cold Equations," a story heavily…