Collection of 15 amusing, horrific, satisfying short stories, realistic speculation and potential scientific explanations or solutions about possible future events surrounding and about fat, thin, and everything in between, with a science fiction backdrop.

Introduction: Fat! - essay by Isaac Asimov Sylvester's Revenge - short story by Vance Aandahl Fat Farm - short story by Orson Scott Card The Stretch - short story by Sam Merwin, Jr. Camels and Dromedaries, Clem - short story by R. A. Lafferty The Champ - short story by T. Coraghessan Boyle The Truth About Pyecraft - short story by H. G. Wells The Iron Chancellor - novelette by Robert Silverberg The Man Who Ate the World - novelette by Frederik Pohl Gladys's Gregory - short story by John Anthony West Abercrombie Station - novella by Jack Vance Shipping Clerk - short story by William Morrison The Malted Milk Monster - short story by William Tenn The Food Farm - short story by Kit Reed The Artist of Hunger - short story by Scott Russell Sanders Quitters, Inc. - short story by Stephen King