Reviews of: [i]Year's Best Science Fiction Novels: 1953[/i] by T.E. Dikty and Everett F. Bleiler; [i]Origin of Life[/i] by A.I. Oparin; [i]Iceworld[/i] by Hal Clement; [i]Ring Around the Sun[/i] by Clifford D. Simak; [i]Ex-Prodigy[/i] by Norbert Wiener; [i]Once Upon a Star[/i] by Kendall Foster Crossen; [i]The Undying Fire[/i] by Fletcher Pratt; and [i]The Transcendent Man[/i] by Jerry Sohl.