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.
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Two Gripping Novels of Other Worlds
Dread-Flame of M’Tonak
By Henry Hasse
Grimly the outlaw Ketrik slogged toward the proud Martian city... behind him the gibbering mindless wrecks of Terra’s shrewdest intelligence men... ahead a ghastly green glow in the sky that waited for him as it had for them — hungrily!
The Creatures That Time Forgot
By Ray Bradbury
Mad, impossible world! Sun-blasted by day, cold-wracked by night — and life condensed by radiation into eight days! Sim eyed the Ship — if he only dared reach it and escape!... But it was more than half an hour distant — the limit of life itself!
Five Thrilling Stories of Space
Enter the Nebula
By Carl Jacobi
The greatest cracksman of the Galaxy — the Nebula... mocked by a gay voice that called herself Andromeda, who led him into danger — into the hands of his enemy!
The Derelict
By William J. Matthews
Dying, castaway Jeff Thorne stumbled across the pitiless desert... was Death awaiting him in this sudden vision of the crumbling towers — the dry-rotted hulks of an ancient Martian seaport?
Total Recall
By Larry Sternig
The armada from outer space was attacking — Roger Kay had thirty minutes to wrench the secret of victory from the old scientist’s brain where it lay buried in horror!
Through the Asteroids — to Hell!
By Leroy Yerxa
Blair Freedman had torn that tunnel through the grinding asteroid wall — with the mighty Cutter... he’d die now to keep it open — but not with the girl he loved!
Six Tuesdays
By Ross Rocklynne
Not six Tuesdays in as many weeks, but the same Tuesday, over and over! Ivan wondered what he’d gotten the universe into — with this crazy time-machine of his!
P.S.’s Departments
P.S.’s Feature Flash
The Vizigraph
