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 Fascinating, Full-Length Novels
The Outcasts Of Solar III
By Emmett McDowell
Of all Terra’s bloodily brawling billions, only mighty scientist Jon Saxon sensed the Others. Even as he swung his fists and dodged the tearing dart guns, his skin crawled weirdly. Who — who — was so coldly watching this war-torn, hell-bent planet?
Design For Doomsday
By Bryce Walton
Slogging through Venus’ reeking muck and groping horrors toward the forbidding dome of Solar Science City — treasure vault of the best brains in the System — Guardsman Venard remembered the frightened whispers: “An evil god rules there!”
A Gripping Novelette
Space-Trap At Banya Tor
By W.J. Matthews
Exciting entertainment, these telecasts of dashing pirates, gorgeous victims and the always stupid Space Patrol, but Jeff Thorne, famed Derelict of Mars, was grimly bent on stopping them — in all their ghastly reality!
Four Fast-Paced Stories
Mind Worms
By Moses Schere
Glowing softly out there in the black nothingness — writhing evilly — what was their terrible power that could drive a ship’s crew gibbering out the airlocks?
Jonah Of The Jove-Run
By Ray Bradbury
They hated this little beat-up old guy. Even if his crazy cosmic brain could track an asteroid clear across the Galaxy, why did he have to smash the super-sensitive meteor detectors?
Planet In Reverse
By Henry Guth
On that insanely jumbled world, their love was a solid fact. Yet he could only stare helplessly as she sobbed out on his shoulder, “Dleif emit desrever senutpen morf em evas!”
Confusion Cargo
By Kenneth Putnam
The hellship hung motionless in the cold black void. Men tiptoed along her echoing corridors, gun hands trembling. What menace gripped the engines? Who was this Dr. Sims?
And Planet’s Regular Features
The Vizigraph
P.S.’s Feature Flash
