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:
Book-Length Novel of Distant Worlds
Dawn Of The Demi-Gods
by Raymond Z. Gallun
As unheralded as ghosts, but as significant as a new dawn of history, they came to Earth from Ganymede’s glowing crescent — three micro-androids, minuscule beings, carrying the moot treasure of immortality.
Five Star-Flung Short Stories
Mary Anonymous
by Bryce Walton
There wasn’t one person on all of Terra to even suspect. No worry about security, saboteurs or spies in this interspatial war with Mars. Earth was firmly united this time... that is, of course, if you just happened to overlook Mary — the sweetest, most incongruous little girl ever to hang around a secret launching site.
The Ogre Test
by Robert Sheckley
Which monster was telling the truth — Almooroa, the fur-skinned giant, or Irik, the long-tailed runt? Earth’s best brains futilely sought the answer as the proclaimed Day of Doom approached.
The Last Monster
by James McKimmey, Jr.
He was a lonely man on an ugly planet, and you couldn’t rightly blame him for trying to save face.
Color Blind
by Charles A. Stearns
Up into the blackness of space swept the colored, miraculous mists of Venus — a glorious fountain of youth to all women; all except naïve Sukey Jones.
The Ambassadors Of Flesh
by Poul Anderson
Where they came from or where they went, no one knew. Yet a thousand young maidens of Varrak were missing; hidden somewhere amid the wild stars of the barbarian hordes. Who but dude Flandry stood a chance of tracking them through the asteroid wastes?
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The Vizigraph
At arms, fen, the mail is here.
