The First Day of Spring

Amazing Stories, December, 1942

One-Way Ticket to Nowhere by Leroy Yerxa

"Like a ghost in the night a whole Mono train vanished. And it was up to Jeff Blake to find out where it had gone..."


"The Sphere of Sleep" by Chester S. Geier

"Brad Nelson had a perfect way to kill Big Tim without any danger of being accused. Then his foot slipped and he was hurled into an unknown world."

IF Worlds of Science Fiction, June, 1954

The First Day of Spring by Mari Wolf

"Here is a love story of two young people who met under the magic of festival time. One was Trina, whose world was a gentle make-believe Earth. The other was Max, handsome spaceman, whose world was the infinite universe of space...."

Galaxy Science Fiction, June, 1956

"The Moralist" by Jack Taylor

"Aye, 'tis a difficult thing to be a lady on a far world—but who needs them there?"



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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth

A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne


Redactor's Note: Journey to the Centre of the Earth is number V002 in the Taves and Michaluk numbering of the works of Jules Verne. First published in England by Griffith and Farran, 1871, this edition is not a translation at all but a complete re-write of the novel, with portions added and omitted, and names changed. The most reprinted version, it is entered into Project Gutenberg for reference purposes only. A better translation is A Journey into the Interior of the Earth translated by Rev. F. A. Malleson, also available on Project Gutenberg.

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The Valley

Galaxy Science Fiction, May, 1954

Mate in Two Moves by Winston K. Marks

"Murt's Virus was catastrophically lethal, but it killed in a way no disease had ever thought of—it loved its victims to death!"

IF Worlds of Science Fiction, June, 1954

"The Valley" by Richard Stockham

"If you can't find it countless millions of miles in space, come back to Earth. You might find it just on the other side of the fence—where the grass is always greener."

IF Worlds of Science Fiction, August, 1954

The Unlearned by Raymond F. Jones

"The scientists of Rykeman III were conceded by all the galactic members to be supreme in scientific achievement. Now the Rykes were going to share their vast knowledge with the scientists of Earth. To any question they would supply an answer—for a price. And Hockley, of all Earth's scientists, was the stubborn one who wanted to weigh the answers with the costs...."



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Probability

IF Worlds of Science Fiction, March, 1954

"Uniform of a Man" by Dave Dryfoos

"After rescue, revenge was uppermost in Chet Barfield's mind; the hideous, bestial Agvars had to be taught a lesson they'd never forget. His rescuers seemed to disagree, however—until Chet learned his lesson too!"

IF Worlds of Science Fiction, April, 1954

"Probability" by Louis Trimble

"If you ever get to drinking beer in your favorite saloon and meet a scared little guy who wants to buy you the joint, supply you with fur coats and dolls and run you for Congress—listen well! That is, if you really want the joint, the fur coats, the dolls and a seat in Congress. Just ask Mike Murphy...."

IF Worlds of Science Fiction, May, 1954

"Fly By Night" by Arthur Dekker Savage

"A young man and a young woman alone on the first over-the-moon ship. The world cheered them as the most romantic adventurers in all history. Do-gooders decried them as immoral stunters. Gaunt, serious militarists pronounced them part of the most crucial experiment ever undertaken...."

"Forsyte's Retreat" by Winston K. Marks

"Sextus Rollo Forsyte had his trouble with the bottle, but nothing out of a bottle ever produced such a hotel as the Mahoney-Plaza: only 260 rooms ... only two guests to a room ... but accommodating 5200 guests—all at the same time!... Floor please?"



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The Trap

Amazing Stories, October, 1948

"Cube Root of Conquest" by Rog Phillips

"What actual result is there in the act of conquest? What is its cube root?"

"Death of a B.E.M." by Berkeley Livingston

"The writer hated to create bug-eyed monsters, but they hated him too!"

If Worlds of Science Fiction, September, 1952

Shock Treatment by Stanley Mullen

"I'll give you the cure for the most horrible disease," Songeen said. "The sickness of life itself." Newlin replied, "Fine. But first, give me a couple of minutes to kill your husband. Then we'll go on from there."

Galaxy Science Fiction, October, 1952

"Wait for Weight" by Jack McKenty

"Sometimes the best incentive is to tell a man that success will throw him out of a job!"

Galaxy Science Fiction, August, 1953

"The Trap" by Betsy Curtis

"She had her mind made up—the one way they'd make her young again was over her dead body!"

Galaxy Science Fiction, November, 1953

"Mr. President" by Stephen Arr

"He had been overwhelmingly elected. Messages of sympathy poured in, but they couldn't help ... nothing could."

Imagination, May, 1954

"Greg tried desperately to find an illegal method of joining his family on Mars; for the law said that no healthy man could land on a—"

"Cancer World" by Harry Warner, Jr.

Amazing Stories, March, 1957

"Disaster Revisited" by Milton Lesser (as by Darius John Granger)

'It annoyed Jason Wall that everybody talked about death but nobody did anything about it. So he decided to eliminate the pesky nuisance. But in the end he longed for a chance to say, "Fellas—I was only kidding!"'

If Worlds of Science Fiction, February, 1958

"Life is pretty strange when a god who is good and benevolent must prove that he has"

"Feet of Clay" by Robert Hoskins (as by Phillip Hoskins)



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Doom of the House of Duryea

Weird Tales, October, 1936

"Doom of the House of Duryea" by Earl Peirce, Jr.

"A powerful story of stark horror, and the dreadful thing that happened in a lone house in the Maine woods."




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Triplanetary

Amazing Stories, December, 1942

Planet of the Gods by Robert Moore Williams

"Two planets circling Vega! But a more amazing discovery waited the explorers when they landed!"

Triplanetary (1948) by E. E. 'Doc' Smith

"ONE MAN DISCOVERED THE TRUTH—The Fall of Rome, the Wars that racked the world, mass murder and horror....Men thought they were historical accidents, "human nature." But each one was a move in a Universe-wide battle—and the men who suffered and died were the big chessmen. Finally, one man discovered the truth—and faced his strange destiny in the ultimate struggle for control of the Universe. First of the Famous Lensman Series"

(Book Three is the original "Triplanetary" as it was serialized in Amazing Stories in 1934. Book One and Book Two were added to the novel version in an attempt to tie it in with the later Lensman series.)

IF Worlds of Science Fiction, March, 1953

Deadly City by Paul W. Fairman (as by Ivar Jorgenson)

"You're all alone in a deserted city. You walk down an empty street, yearning for the sight of one living face—one moving figure. Then you see a man on a corner and you know your terror has only begun."


"The Sword" by Frank Quattrocchi

"There were but three days in which to decipher the most cryptic message ever delivered to earth."



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