First Voyages is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Damon Knight, Martin H. Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander, first published in paperback by Avon Books in May 1981. It is a compilation of the first published stories of twenty prominent authors in the genre, and an expansion of Knight's earlier First Maiden Voyages in Space and Time (Lancer Books, 1963), which covered ten of the same stories and authors.
The car is man's most personalized machine: for teenagers it is a rite of passage and a statement of freedom; for adults it is a reflection of success, taste, and hopes; and for an entire culture it is a great and industrious mode of transportation - driving, perhaps, on the road of destruction. And the automobile - thrilling, honking, speeding, never-shattering - haunts us with the dark possibility that when our age of motoring innocence is over, we may no longer be the masters. CAR SINISTER - a splendid, imaginative vision of what lies down the road for all of us.