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Fantastic Stories Presents the Fantastic Universe Super Pack #1 - A Positronic Book
Hardcover
Series: Positronic Super Pack, Book 24
ISBN13: 9781515420941
Publisher: Positronic Publishing
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 394
Weight: 1.98
Height: 0.88 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
More than 175,000 words of classic science fiction and fantasy are gathered in this oversized first volume of the Fantastic Universe Super Pack series. Launched with its June-July 1953 issue and continuing through March 1960, Fantastic Universe was part of the great 1950s boom in science fiction magazine publishing, lasting for 69 issues and outliving many of the magazines that appeared in the same crowded market. This collection brings together space adventure, robots, alien encounters, time-slip fiction, strange transformations, Martian stories, speculative satire, psychological danger, and vintage fantasy by some of the field's best-known writers and skilled magazine professionals.
Included in this volume are:
Exile from Space by Judith Merril
Cogito, Ergo Sum by John Foster West
Grove of the Unborn by Lyn Venable
Two Plus Two Makes Crazy by Walt Sheldon
Song in a Minor Key by C. L. Moore
The Helpful Robots by Robert J. Shea
There Will Be School Tomorrow by V. E. Thiessen
The Answer by H. Beam Piper
It's All Yours by Sam Merwin, Jr.
Rex ex Machina by Frederic Max
This One Problem by M. C. Pease
Small World by William F. Nolan
The Cartels Jungle by Irving E. Cox, Jr.
This Is Klon Calling by Walt Sheldon
The Velvet Glove by Harry Harrison
Moment of Truth by Basil Wells
No Hiding Place by Richard R. Smith
Beyond the Door by Philip K. Dick
The Laminated Woman by Evelyn E. Smith
Be It Ever Thus by Robert Moore Williams
The Man the Martians Made by Frank Belknap Long
My Father, the Cat by Henry Slesar
I Like Martian Music by Charles E. Fritch
They Twinkled Like Jewels by Philip José Farmer
The Mighty Dead by William Campbell Gault
Out of the Earth by George Edrich
Martyr by Alan E. Nourse
To Remember Charlie By by Roger Dee
The Amazing Mrs. Mimms by David C. Knight
The Sensitive Man by Poul Anderson
Together these stories show the range and energy of mid-century magazine science fiction: quick invention, bold premises, strange futures, human anxiety, comic reversals, and the pleasure of speculative storytelling before the field hardened into narrower categories. For readers of Golden Age science fiction, vintage fantasy, pulp magazines, robot fiction, alien worlds, and classic short fiction, this Super Pack offers a substantial single-volume return to one of the liveliest periods in the field's history. If you enjoyed this book, search for Positronic Publishing Super Pack and explore the other Super Packs in the series. Explore other exciting Positronic Books devoted to classic science fiction, fantasy, and mystery.
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