During the science-fiction boom of the 1930s, there were over a dozen pulp magazines dedicated to the subject. Analog, Startling Stories, Amazing Stories, Wonder Stories, Captain Future and Super Science Stories were just a few. In 1939, the pulp magazine publisher of Jungle Stories, and many others, added its own entry into the sci-fi field, Planet Stories. Until it folded in 1955, it published ground-breaking science fiction from some of the genre's brightest stars, including such luminaries as Ray Cummings, Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr., Eando Binder, Leight Bracket, Isaac Asimov, Clifford D. Simak, Henry Kuttner, Ray Bradbury, Frederik Pohl, James Blish, A.E. van Vogt, Theodore Sturgeon, Alan E. Nourse and Robert Sheckley. Planet Stories returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Two Mighty Novels Of Worlds At Bay
Black Silence
By Emmett McDowell
They came thundering back across the cold dark void, hearts aching for home. They stepped down — into a wasted lifeless horror! Eying each other in despair, they wondered — could they colonize this alien world they once had called HOME?
Beneath The Red World’s Crust
By Erik Fennel
The ancient leviathan heaved mightily in the vast buried cavern, pumping water upward as it had been told. Only hunted Nick Tinker knew that more than just water was coming to Mars’ dust-dry surface!
Eight Thrilling Short Stories
Crash Beam
By John Barrett
Dan Kearns, sick and shaking, could already hear them talk: “Yeah, come in on the Kearns beam — it’s a new way to die!”
Zero Hour
By Ray Bradbury
PLANET STORIES proudly presents one of the best science-fiction stories we have ever seen. Perhaps you will think it the best!
Asteroid Justice
By V.E. Thiessen
Was this how Sam Knox got his man — drifting helplessly across space in a tiny eggshell with two weeks’ grub — to a lonely death?
Against Tetrarch
By A.A.O. Gilmour
On that evil planet, broken men of Earth knew only two things: They were all dying at twenty-five. And lovely Mona Darlanan was a dirty traitor!
Assignment In The Dawn
By Bryce Walton
Roland knew Worldcity was a static, dying culture. He knew he was destined to be its Destroyer. But — he didn’t know why!
Test For The Pearl
By Vaseleos Garson
Together, Earthman and Jovian outwitted prison guards and Venusian jungle-hell. They were invincible. But, against the Chameleon men, they divided...
Escape From Pluto
By William Oberfield
Exiled to Pluto’s harsh wastes, Marcius Kemble found unexpected allies. But even the Plutonians underestimated the flaming glory to which they sent him!
Girl Of The Silver Sphere
By J. Harvey Haggard
Beautiful, impossibly savage, Prince Ilon loved her madly. For her, he would almost dare the blackest secret of the cosmos. Almost — but not quite...
And Planet’s Regular Features
P.S.’s Feature Flash
The Vizigraph
