This is a great collection of action short stories by Algis Budrys from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here: "The Barbarians", "Desire No More", "Riya's Foundling", and "The Stoker and the Stars".
Algirdas Jonas "Algis" Budrys (January 9, 1931 – June 9, 2008) was a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor, and critic. He was also known under the pen names Frank Mason, Alger Rome (in collaboration with Jerome Bixby), John A. Sentry, William Scarff, and Paul Janvier. He is known for the influential 1960 novel Rogue Moon.