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:
Novel of Distant Worlds
Temptress Of Planet Delight
by B. Curtis
It was forty years since the last G.C. spacer... plenty can happen in an off-galaxy world in that length of time.
Three Star-Flung Novelets
Give Back A World
by Raymond Z. Gallun
What did Fane know about Mercury that he never told? For instance, a pushbutton war, fifty million years old, that had been put into cold storage... dead storage... but maybe not quite dead?
The Infinites
by Philip K. Dick
The universe was theirs — Eller, Blake and Silvia — if they stuck together, played right with their fabulous, new-found, million-year knowledge.
Last Run On Venus
by James McKimmey, Jr.
Cice was marvelous by herself. Multiplied five times she could make the heart of any spaceman leap crazily through the Galaxy.
Four Short Stories
Mars Is Home
by Bryan Berry
What did the Peony carry that confounded every great technical mind between Earth and Mars?
Cosmic Castaway
by Stanley Mullen
“You aren’t human, Bell. And you’re not a robot. What are you?” Bell smiled and pondered the query with his semi-human brain — a brain that Plutonians reckoned was the most deadly and dangerous in the universe.
Eyes Of The Double Moon
by Joe L. Hensley
The booty-lure was too great, and Mark Rifle forgot the dire warning: The Martian night has a thousand eyes.
Con-Fen
by James R. Adams
To the teeming metropolis of Chicago, U.S.A., came those two frolicsome Martians bent on a gay and grand vacation.
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The Vizigraph
Hear ye! Hear ye! The drums beat madly.
