I don't know if Irwin Allen got inspiration from some of these stories. One of them with giant bugs must have inspired Land of the Giants. It was about people from the future crash landing on a planet where everything was hundreds of times their actual size. This anthology was terrific. If you are tired of Star Wars and Star Trek franchise novels; read this novel. It's where a lot of material was drawn for future movies and films. I can see why William Jenkins (the author's actual name) was called the dean of science fiction. I can't get over how all this material was written in the fifties and sixties and it's still readable.