In science-fiction, as in all categories of fiction, there are stories that are so outstanding from the standpoint of characterization, concept, and background development that they remain popular for decades.
To translate writings, you need a key to the code-and if the last writer of Martian died forty thousand years before the first writer of Earth was born .
The enlightened days of mental telepathy and ESP should have made the world a better place, but the minute the Rhine Institute opened up, all the crooks decided it was time to go collegiate!
It is the kind of news item you read at least a dozen times a year, wonder about briefly, and then promptly forget-but the real story is the one that the reporters are unable to cover!
An astronomer and an industrialist attempt to assist aliens from a dying race whose spaceship has crashed, while their sons prepare two strange animals for the circus.
