Speculative fiction

Channing wanted a planet.

When adopting a pet, choose the species that is most intelligent, obedient, loyal, fun to play with, yet a shrewd, fearless protector.

The dark star passed, bringing with it eternal night and turning history into incredible myth in a single generation!

Edited by H.

Here is the sequel to "e;The Mad Planet"e; by Murray Leinster.

'The Mad Planet' by Murray Leinster was the first global warming story ever written.

There is one fact no sane man can quarrel with .

Being two men rolled out of one would solve my problems-but which one would I be?

In a far distant future mankind must cope with huge insects and titanic fungus growths.

The creature from Venus didn't know right from left-and life and death hung in the balance!

You too can be a Qurono.

Outcasts of a society of physically perfect people, they couldn't stay and they couldn't go home again-yet there had to be some escape for them.

First Contact was always dangerous-but usually only to the man involved!

The weatherman was always right: Temperature, 59; humidity, 47%; occasional light showers-but of what?

No self-respecting artist can object to suffering for his art .

A Konv cylinder was the key to space-but there was one power it could not match!

It was the awfullest dream in the world, no doubt about it.

A lean wind wails through the age-old avenues of Dawningsburgh.

Certainly I see things that aren't there and don't say what my voice says-but how can I prove that I don't have my health?

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A gripping tale of the planet Mars and the terrible monstrosity that called its victims to it from afar-a tale of Northwest Smith.

Something of the wonder that must have come to men seeking magic in the sky in days long vanished.

Once more the epic struggle between the Elder Gods and the Ancient Ones was having repercussions on one of earth's seemingly most peaceful valleys.

An amazing weird mystery story, packed with thrills, danger and startling events.

Old Mr.

In abandoned cisterns and old wells, in moldy heaps of straw forgotten in the corners of deserted barns, in reedy pools deep in the woods, in fungied hollows of dead trees, in all such secret places apart from man, strange life engenders, drifts in and takes root and form.

"e;Oh, no; I'm really here,"e; the voice, inaudible but mentally present, assured him.

Pioneers have always resented their wanderlust, hated their hardships.

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!

Snaddra had but one choice in its fight to afford to live belowground- underhandedly pretend theirs was an aboveboard society!

Civilizations must make sense somehow.

Giving Certain Powers the business for a change would be a joy-but it must not backfire-and here at last was the perfect recoilless diddle!

Score one or one million was not enough for the human race.

He was lost-anyone could see that-but she had no idea how entirely lost he was nor why!

Getting there may be half the fun .

Fantastic Universe' started publishing in 1953 and continued until March 1960.

Fantastic Universe started publishing in 1953 and continued until March 1960.

How are you going to keep them down on the farm-after they've seen the truth?

Don't take your eye off music .

Going straight meant crooked planning.

To live different and exciting lives, all I had to do was sign here-and give up my own life!

They were a charming family and everybody loved them to death-especially Amanda

Brilliant?

"e;I could change, you see, and take things as all sorts of odd characters.

Have you found out about the Big Engine?

Once they had been human-now they shared a remarkable destiny on an incredible new planet.

Unfortunate castaway!

What more fitting place for the last man on Earth to live in than a museum?

The golden guardians denied mankind the stars.

Poul Anderson is a member of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.