Finally Finished Reading 1945 Science Fiction Anthology

It took a while, but I got around to finishing reading Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great SF Stories 7 (1945), an anthology of that year's best science fiction short stories, edited by Asimov  and Martin H. Greenberg.  The final two stories in it are De Profundis by Murray Leinster and Pi in the Sky by Frederic Brown.  These two writers had other entries in this book.  De Profundis presents the narrative from the point of view of a completely alien, waterbound life form that describes its encounter with humans.  Leinster did a masterful job of creating a sense of what intelligent life could be like elsewhere, and how that intelligence did not automatically mean that it would abide by the same moral codes that we have.  It packed a lot of message for such a short tale.  Pi in the Sky was more of a commentary on our capitalistic society with its heavy emphasis on advertising...put into a science fiction context.  For unfathomable reasons, the brightest stars in the night sky are suddenly drastically changing their positions...in apparent total disregard to the laws of physics and the barrier of the speed of light.  This story could not have been written nowadays in the science fiction genre, since authors now feel the need to convince and impress the reader with the scientific viability of their speculations.  Older writers like Frederic Brown and Ray Bradbury often produced science fiction without taking the "science" part of it into full account, not having been trained in the area like other writers.  But Pi in the Sky, like so many of Brown's other pieces, has one of those endings with a "kick" to it...and a message about how we look at things in "our" world.

Well, I suppose I can go back to my book chest and randomly draw out another year in science fiction to explore.  Wonder which one's gonna be next...