 "Here Comes a Candle" is told in straight narrative sections alternating with a radio script, a screenplay, a sportscast, a teleplay, a stage play, and a newspaper article.His short story "Arena" was voted by Science Fiction Writers of America as one of the top 20 SF stories written before 1965.His 1945 short story "The Waveries" was described by Philip K. Dick as "what may be the most significant—startlingly so—story SF has yet produced".