"Weird Tales", Vol 38 No 4 (May 1947) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

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This is probably the Canadian edition. There is a note, in small print, on ToC page: "This magazine was produced in Canada, on Canadian paper, by Canadians." And the ToC as well as cover is different from the same issue's description at ISFDB (which I assume is the US edition?)

Table of contents. 

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1. [novelette] Stephen Grendon's "Mr George": "A child must be guarded in its tender years against those who follow false gods down dim paths to oblivion".
2. [novelette] Harold Lawlor's "The Terror in Teakwood": "What was the Macabre secret of the black casket, more precious than life, more dangerous than death?"
3. [novelette] Eric Frank Russell's "Venturer of the Martian Mimics" (A): "Our young sciences, like our imaginings, have limits but where facts end possibilities start--& they're truly boundless".
4. [ss] Seabury Quinn's "Hoodooed": "When the time comes to fix the hoodoo there is no power in heaven or earth to avert it".
5. [ss] Theodore Sturgeon's "Fluffy": "Don't make enemies with a cat. Why? Well, try it, & find out!"
6. [ss] Allison V Harding's "The Immortal Lancer": "There are places in this world & out of it that you have never dreamed of in your wildest nightmares!"
7. [ss] Robert Bloch's "Sweets to the Sweet": "She wanted a broomstick & a black cat; after all, don't witches have both?"
8. [ss] Herbert Scanlon's "Lizzie Borden Took an Axe": "A locked room, moldering books, muttered curses, in rotting hulk of a house--add up to tragedy".
9. [verse] Stanton A Coblentz's "On a Weird Planet".

See also.

1. Fiction from Weird Tales.
2. Fiction from old "pulp" magazines.
3. Fiction from 1940s.

"Startling Stories", Vol 24 No 2 (November 1951) (ed Samuel Mines) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

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Table of contents. 

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1. [novel] Eric Frank Russell's "The Star Watchers": "Posted on every life-bearing planet are these oddly selfless guardians--amiable, but vengeful & merciless in striking down any who menace man's long agonizing climb to the stars".
2. [novelet] Mack Reynolds & Fredric Brown's "The Gamblers": "Bob Thayer was no card sharp, but he managed to get into a poker game on the Moon--with the fate of the Earth at stake".
3. [ss] Sam Merwin, Jr's "Grease in the Pan": "This was their purpose--to discover new planets to populate".
4. [ss] William Morrison's "The Cupids of Venus": "Couples for colonizing Cygnus were selected scientifically!"

See also.

1. Fiction from Startling Stories.
2. Fiction from old "pulp" magazines.
3. Fiction from 1950s.

"Imagination: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy", Vol 2 No 2 (April 1951) (ed William L Hamling) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

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Bradbury's excellent story is probably logically a part of "The Martian Chronicles", though it doesn't appear to be in the official version.

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1. [novella] Robert W Krepps' "Beyond the Fearful Forest" (as by Geoff St Reynard): "No hunter dared to venture past the Fearful Forest into the land of--The Nameless..."
2. [ss] Ray Bradbury's '"In This Sign..."' aka "The Fire Balloons" (A): "The Fathers had come to convert the Martians. The question was: did they really exist?"
3. [ss] Hal Annas' "The Longsnozzle Event": "What will the future private detective be like? Meet Len Zitts, Galactic Shamus!"
4. [ss] Richard Matheson's '"Drink My Red Blood..."': "Jules was a strange little boy with a peculier ambition: he wanted to be a vampire..."
5. [ss] Eric Frank Russell's "Afternoon of a Fahn" aka "Rainbow's End" (A): "Here was the planet of a spaceman's dreams--it made every one of them come true..."
6. [novelette] Robert Bloch's "The Hungry House": "Were they afraid of the house, or the thing that lived there--waiting for tenants..."
7. [ss] Mack Reynolds' "Not in the Rules": "Earth's Warrior faced death in the Martian Arena with an untested weapon--strategy!"
8. [ss] Allen K Lang's "An Eel By the Tail": "A physics class was no place for this strip teaser--nor was the Earth for that matter!"

See also.

1. Fiction from Imagination.
2. Fiction from old "pulp" magazines.
3. Fiction from 1950s.

"Science Fiction Plus", Vol 1 No 6 (October 1953) (ed Hugo Gernsback) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

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There is an interesting call for authors on ToC page: "$100.00 will be paid by this magazine for each Short-Short Science-Fiction Story. These stories must be real science fiction, not fantasy, & should not run over 1,000 words.The Short-Short + will occupy one full page." Doesn't that make it the highest paying flash fiction market of its time?

Note: Magazine seems to interchangeably use "Science Fiction Plus" & "Science Fiction +" as its titles. Cover logo blends the two.

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1. [novelette] Thomas Calvert McClary's "The Celestial Brake".
2. [short novel] Philip Jose Farmer's "Strange Compulsion": "The conquest of many of the most distressing infirmities is made difficult by the veil of prudery which covers such illnesses as venereal diseases, & even today there exists the absurd notion that it is not respectful to have cancer or a hernia. It seems logical that even the most careful preparation will not avoid the contraction of new diseases when man conquers space--& should those ills be fostered by prudery, the result might prove tragic."
3. [ss] Jack Williamson's "Operation: Gravity": "at present we simply have no concept of the nature of gravity. If ... we should have the opportunity of studying gravity under special conditions, we may arrive at an understanding that will make science-fiction notions about gravitation a possibility."
4. [ss] Eric Frank Russell's "Postscript" aka "P.S." (A): 'How great are the odds against human beings feeling emotions of sympathy, understanding, & compassion for any alien races that may be discovered on distant worlds in the years following interplanetary travel? View the great difficulty the peoples of the world seem to have in getting along with human beings who are different only in color of skin. Consider the tendency to treat groups of opposing religious or political thought as "different," & something less than human.'
5. [ss] Roger Dee's "Worlds Within Worlds": "what would happen if we discovered that an insuperable barrier imprisoned us to the surface of the Earth forever"?
6. [ff] Anne McCaffrey's "Freedom of the Race".

See also.

1. Fiction from old "pulp" magazines.
2. Fiction from 1950s.

New at Project Gutenberg (27 September 2010)

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1. Charles Vincent De Vet's "Delayed Action"; download; Galaxy, September 1953: "This planet gave him the perfect chance to commit the perfect crime--only he couldn't remember just what it was he had committed."

Related: Fiction from old pulps.

"Fantastic Universe", Vol 1 No 1 (June-July 1953) (ed Sam Merwin, Jr) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

Inaugural issue of the magazine. Going by sheer number of stories, this looks more like an anthology than a magazine! Its scans in CBR format are online as part of a larger package.

Table of contents. 

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1. [novella] Sam Merwin, Jr's "Nightmare Tower" (as by Jacques Jean Ferrat): "Lynne disliked the man from Mars on sight. Yet drawn by forces beyond her control she let him carry her off to the Red Planet."
2. [novelette] A Bertram Chandler's "Vicious Circle": "It's bad to be trapped in a time warp with anyone. And when anyone is Malaprop Jenkins it can adder a man's wits peppermintly."
3. [ss] Frank Belknap Long's "Little Men of Space": "The Children were very young--& the crisis they were called upon to face would have driven most adults into a straitjacket."
4. [novelette] E Hoffmann Price's "The Fire and the Flesh": "Was Agni Deva flame? Or was she flesh? In either case, the woman of volcano was irresistible."
   
   Note: I wonder whatever made the author make "Agni Deva" female? In Hindu mythology, it's a male. Also, "Deva" (also written "Dev" in English) literally means "god" & is clearly male; "Devi" is "goddess" & female.
5. [ss] August Derleth's "The Maugham Obsession": "All inventors seek success. Some few achieve it. And now & then, a Quintus Maugham is a bit too successful for his own health."
   
   From editor's introduction to story: author was the owner of Arkham press at the time the story was published.
6. [ss] Arthur C Clarke's "The Other Tiger": "When a pair of strollers begin to ponder parallel worlds just about anything can happen. And this time about anything does."
   
   From Clarke's introduction to this story in his "Collected Stories": "Originally entitled 'Refutation', this story was retitled by Sam Merwin, editor of Fantastic Universe, as a nod to Frank Stockton's classic but now forgotten 'The Lady or the Tiger'".
   
   For me, it's among the forgettable stories of Clarke. It's very small though, probably just above the boundary of flash fiction.
7. [ss] Gene L Henderson's "The Small Bears": "The aliens looked cute as Koalas. But there was a little matter of a graveyard of dead spaceships."
8. [ss] Philip K Dick's "Martians Come in Clouds": "Among Man's noblest dreams is that of making friendly contact with other world creatures. But dreams may become nightmares..."
9. [ss] Roger Dee's "The Minister Had To Wait": 'The Brass said, "Turn it on!" So Doc Maxey could but obey--which created one hell of a big mess.'
10. [ss] Milton Lesser's "Finders Keepers": "Amhurst wanted to get married. But then an invisible ingenue moved in on his wedding day..."
11. [ss] Ray Bradbury's "Time in Thy Flight": "The circus, Hallowe'en, the Glorious Fourth may go--yet eternal is their pull on a child's heart."
12. [ss] Eric Frank Russell's "It's in the Blood" (B): "Space may flow in a young man's veins. But at times the laws of heredity can take tragic twists."
13. [ss, reprint] Francis G Rayer's "Of Those Who Came" (as by George Longdon); New Worlds, November 1952: "The alien scheme was perfect--a night landing, infiltration, human disguises. Fortunately for us the Policeman was awaiting them."

See also.

1. Fiction from Fantastic Universe.
2. Fiction from old "pulp" magazines.
3. Fiction from 1950s.

"Other Worlds Science Stories", Vol 1 No 4 (May 1950) (ed Raymond A Palmer) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

Scans of this magazine in CBR format are online as part of a larger package.

"Dear Devil" must be amongst the most loved stories of science fiction, going by the number of personal thank you notes I receive from people who had read it long ago, forgot title & author, kept looking for story based on description for decades, & eventually found it via Google & Variety SF. A kind-hearted Martian explorer chooses to strand himself on earth to uplift back to civilization the once great but now primitive post-apocalypse humanity.

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1. [novelette] Eric Frank Russell's "Dear Devil" (A): 'Terror drove fathers from their children, & love seemed lost to the Earth. But then came an octopus-armed "devil" to cradle a little boy.'
2. [novelette] A E van Vogt's "War of Nerves"; part of the author's Space Beagle series: "The spaceship flashed through the void--& all at once there began a battle of wits to the death between the crew & a non-human race on a planet still light years away ..."
3. [ss] Raymond F Jones' "Portrait of Narcissus": "Psychaitrists might say that when Narcissus looked into the pool & fell in love with his own image, he was hypnotized; for beauty may well have hypnotic conditioning powers."
4. [ss] Jerome Bixby's "--And All For One": 'a spaceship wreck on the most desolate world in the void--& it was four hungry survivors, "one for all--& all for one"'.
5. [novella] S J Byrne's "Colossus"; sequel to author's "Prometheus II" in Amazing Stories: 'The king sat quietly as the bullets struck his body. "The fourth bullet will be a dud," he predicted. The fourth bullet was a dud.'
6. [ss] Millen Cooke's "Edmund Latimer's Milking Machine": "Edmund invented a miling machine that was perfection in iteself, except for one flaw. "Milk went it, but never came out. But then a strange man showed up who seemed to thing Edmund had done something quite marvelous."
7. [ss] William Wallrich's "The Scissors": "The seemed just an ordinary pair of scissors, but when you opened & closed them, the earth itself opened--& shut."

See also.

1. Fiction from old "pulp" magazines.
2. Fiction from 1950s.

"Fantastic Universe", Vol 11 No 3 (May 1959) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

Scans of this magazine in CBR format are online as part of a larger package.

Table of contents. 

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1. [novelet] Eric Frank Russell's "The Army Comes to Venus": "He was secretly surprised to find himself enjoying this spell of gallantry. But worse was to happen."
2. Robert F Young's "The Wistful Witch": "Anybody might think that she wanted to be a witch--& anybody thinking so would have been correct."
3. Ron Goulart's "Parlor Game": "Luanne made it almost a challenge. She really was pretty. And there were so few women on Prospero II."
4. Sam Rosenfeld's "Citizen Meekle": "What happens when a little man who's not aggressive--but who does dream--finally makes a startling discovery?"
5. Lloyd Biggle's "Traveling Salesman": "The Feds were getting tough. It was costing too much to distribute the stuff. He'd probably have to go away..."
6. Joy Leache's "Miss Millie's Rose": "a very different story about Tomorrow's Mars."
   
   'The Customs man announced he had an old dame there "with one of them Jap trees." How was he to know what'd happen?'
7. John Victor Peterson's "The Amnesic Men": "Venus! She remembered the harsh record of hostory & shuddered at the thought of the many men who had died."
8. G Harry Stine's "Letter from Tomorrow" (as by Lee Correy): "Maybe the man was nutty as a fruitcake. Maybe he thought he was a little green man--& maybe he was very sane..."

See also.

1. Fiction from Fantastic Universe.
2. Fiction from old "pulp" magazines.
3. Fiction from 1950s.

Notes.

1. There is no mention of editor on ToC page, though Hans Stefan Santesson is noted as the "Editorial Director".

New at Project Gutenberg (6 September 2010)

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1. [novel] Donald Allen Wollheim's "The Secret of the Ninth Planet"; download: An interplanetary adventure to uncover what's behind "the theft of the solar system's light".
2. Kris Neville's "Earth Alert!"; download; Imagination, February 1953: "What defense could she raise against mutant science--telepathy, invisibility, teleportation--especially since Earth was not aware of its danger!"
   
   I haven't done the word count, but this appears to be nearly novel size. Or at least novella size.

Related: Fiction from old "pulps".

"Astounding Science-Fiction", March 1940 (ed John W Campbell, Jr) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

Scans of this magazine in CBR format are online as part of a larger package.

Table of contents. 

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1. [novelette] Nat Schachner's "Cold": Two worlds dependent utterly on one mine--& the mine gives out! The warmth of two worlds' friendship freezes in the cold of a tiny world--"
2. [novelette] L Sprague de Camp's "The Emancipated": "Johnny Black & Company--& what company! Johnny learns to talk, but when McGinty the ape starts--"
3. [ss] P Schuyler Miller's "In the Good Old Summertime": "He liked heat--was sure he'd like even the hear of a Venus summer, while he set up his kingdom. But a drying mud-puddle meant--"
4. [ss] A M Phillips' "Chapter from the Beginning": "Half a jawbone & the end of a tooth are clues to a new pre-man. But how many species have we missed--how many unknown half-men--"
5. [ss] Willard E Hawkins' "The Dwindling Sphere": "The inventor figured it was a failure. It was an overwhelming success--a success that overwhelmed the Earth--"
6. [serial - part 2/2] Robert Heinlein's "If This Goes On--": "Astounding's second Nova story--one of the most powerful novels of dictatorship science-fiction has produced."

See also.

1. Fiction from Analog/Astounding (only issues edited by Harry Bates, John Campbell).
2. Stories written by John Campbell.
3. Fiction from old "pulp" magazines.
4. Fiction from 1940s.

New at Project Gutenberg (29 August 2010)

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1. [novel] Howard Browne's "The Return of Tharn"; download; Amazing Stories, October-December 1948: "When Tharn set out to rescue his beloved Dylara, he did not dream   the whole Cro-Magnon world opposed him".

Related: Fiction from old "pulps".

"Astounding Science Fiction", October 1959 (ed John W Campbell, Jr) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

Scans of this magazine in CBR format are online as part of a larger package.

Table of contents. 

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1. [novelette] Christopher Anvil's "The Lawbreakers": "Their mission was sabotage--the destruction of critical installations. Their victims? Hah! Their victims were most eagerly awaiting their hoped-for coming..."
   
   I've a feeling I've seen text version of this story online somewhere, but cannot locate the URL now.
2. [novelette] Jack Vance's "Dodkin's Job": 'The really essential question was, "Who's runnin' this shebang, anyhow?" The rough part of that question is, of course, that one man may think he is--while a quite different man does. So who do you ask?'
3. [ss] Murray F Yaco's "Unspecialist" (A); download: "A machine can be built to do any accurately described job better than any man. The superiority of a man is that he can do an unexpected, undescribed & emergency job ... provided he hasn't been especially trained to be a machine."
4. [serial - part 2/2] Randall Garrett & Laurence M Janifer's "That Sweet Little Old Lady" aka "Brain Twister" (as by Mark Phillips); download text/audio: "It was tough enough for the FBI men to have to hunt out a telepathic spy...but when the only known telepath-locator was a more than somewhat peculiar little old lady who had to be humored..."
   
   ISFDB notes that "Brain Twister" is the title of its 1962 book version.

See also.

1. Fiction from Analog/Astounding (only issues edited by Harry Bates, John Campbell).
2. Stories written by John Campbell.
3. Fiction from old "pulp" magazines.
4. Fiction from 1950s.

New at Project Gutenberg (24 August 2010)

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1. Sidney Austen's "The Frightened Planet"; download; Amazing Stories, October 1948: "Karn was only a savage, but he knew a thing or two about the way justice should be meted out--and he did it".
2. [novel] Jules Verne's "Abandoned"; download: Translated by W H G Kingston from original French version titled "L'Abandonné". This novel is "the second in the Mysterious Island triad". "L'Abandonné, like its two companion tales, ran its course as a serial through the Magasin Illustré of education and recreation, before its issue as a boy's story-book."

Related: Fiction from old "pulps".

"Astounding Science-Fiction", Vol XXVIII No 2 (October 1941) (ed John W Campbell, Jr) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

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"By His Bootstraps" & "Universe" (download MP3 of radio adaptation) are among Heinlein's best known stories. Though not among his best stories, in my opinion. Former appears in "The Adventures in Time & Space"; later in "The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A".

Table of contents. 

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1. [novella] Robert Heinlein's "By His Bootstraps" (as by Anson MacDonald) (B); download MP3 of radio adaptation; grandfather paradox: "Bob Wilson met himself--in a highly redundant sort of way. He met himself several times in fact, & became inextricably tangled in Time--"
2. [novelette] Robert Heinlein's "Common Sense": 'The sequel to "Universe", a tale of a civilization that developed aboard a giant spaceship lost in interstellar space for 4,000 years--"
3. [ss] Isaac Asimov's "Not Final!": "The Jovians wanted to get out & destroy every other living thing in the Solar System. They would--if they could find a way to retain their terrific atmosphere in a spaceship--"
4. [ss] Winston K Marks' "Manic Perverse": "Only mechanical violence could bring death in that era--& the force field kept men from committing suicide. And that alone was enough to make some mad--"
5. [ss] Theodore Sturgeon's "Two Percent Inspiration": "A Martian might be as good as any Earthman in most things--but when it came to a short hike on Mercury--"

See also.

1. Fiction from Analog/Astounding (only issues edited by Harry Bates, John Campbell).
2. Stories written by John Campbell.
3. Fiction from old "pulp" magazines.
4. Fiction from 1940s.

Note: I could not find any mention of editor's name either on cover or on ToC page or with signature at the end of editor's column. ISFDB, however, note that the editor is John W Campbell, Jr.

Free fiction: Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1936

Scans in CBR format at Crosseyed Cyclops.

Related: Fiction from Thrilling Wonder Stories, old "pulps", 1930s.

"Astounding Science Fiction", October 1955 (British Edition) (ed John W Campbell, Jr) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

Scans of this magazine in CBR format are online as part of a larger package.
Caution: Cover advertises a story - Charles F Hockett's "How to Learn Martian" - but it's not listed in ToC! It is, however, included in the internal pages.

"Allamagoosa" is among the best of science fiction. I'm sure I've seen "Risk" somewhere, but cannot quite place it.

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1. [novelette] Everett B Cole's "Millennium": "There are devices a high-level culture could produce that simply don't belong in the hands of incompetents of lower cultural evolution. The finest, & most civilized of tools can be made a menace..."
2. [novelette] Isaac Asimov's "Risk": It was guaranteed not to kill anybody--wouldn't harm a hair of your head. Of course, it did tend to turn you into a mindless idiot--but it wouldn't hurt you a bit."
3. [ss] Eric Frank Russell's "Allamagoosa" (A); download: 'Just what it was, they weren't quite sure, but they knew it had to be there; the Bureau's Inventory said so. And the consequences of its "accidental" destruction were astonishing...'
4. [serial - 2/4] Poul Anderson's "The Long Way Home": "They weren't exactly welcome on Earth 5,000 years beyond their time--but they were hotly contended for. Nobody liked them, but everybody wanted them--particularly the one who wasn't there!"
5. Charles F Hockett's "How to Learn Martian": "Once upon a time, people thought that a vocabulary & the grammar rules were the whole story on learning a language. But modern linguistics finds it's both more complicated, & also somewhat simpler than that..."

See also.

1. Fiction from Analog/Astounding (only issues edited by Harry Bates, John Campbell).
2. Stories written by John Campbell.
3. Fiction from old "pulp" magazines.
4. Fiction from 1950s.

"The Magazine of Fantasy", Vol 1 No 1 (Fall 1949) (eds Anthony Boucher & J Francis McComas) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

This is the inaugural issue of F&SF, subtitled "An Anthology of the Best Fantasy Stories, Old and New", & the only issue that carries this title. Next issue will be named "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction".

Scans of the magazine in the form of a CBR file are available online as part of a larger package.

Publisher, Lawrence E Spivak, in his introduction tells us of the magazine's focus: "whatever our senses may reject, but our imagination logically accepts." His invitation to authors solicits material "sufficiently out of this world to contradict the laws of man's logic -- while adhering firmly to a freshly created logic of their own."

Note that this is not all-original; it includes reprints, in addition to original fiction.

In the past, I've read at least two of the stories - "Private--Keep Out!" & "The Hurkle is a Happy Beast" - but don't remember much of the either. Later, I think, is widely anthologized.

Table of contents (11 stories).

Where I'm aware of alternate download links for individual stories, I include that too. Links on author, publisher, or year fetch more matching fiction.

1. [original] Cleve Cartmill's "Bells on His Toes": "broad farce-fantasy".
2. [reprint] Perceval Landon's "Thurnley Abbey"; download; Raw Edges (collection), 1908: "plausible cold terror". "merely one of the three most terrifying stories in the English language." "in the supernatural field, things are not always what they seem ... or even what they seem not to be."
3. [original] Philip MacDonald's "Private--Keep Out!".
4. [reprint] Fitz-James O'Brian's "The Lost Room"; download; Harper's Magazine, September 1858.
5. [original] Theodore Sturgeon's "The Hurkle is a Happy Beast".
6. [original] Anthony Boucher' "Review Copy" (as by H H Holmes): "supernatural vengeance".
7. [reprint] Guy Endore's "Men of Iron"; 1940 (where?): "social irony". "the implications of the machine age".
8. [reprint] Stuart Palmer's "A Bride for the Devil"; 1940 (where?): "horrible hilarity".
9. [reprint] Oliver Onions' "Rooum"; download; The Fortnightly Review, December 1910: "the story of the craneman Rooum, the lone wolf of the construction world who was never quite alone."
10. [reprint] Richard Sale's "Perseus Had a Helmet"; Argosy, 5 February 1938: "border-line humor". "somewhere on the borderline between logical crime & a world gone mad."
11. [original] Winona McClintic's "In the Days of Our Fathers": First published story of the author.

Related: Fiction from F&SF/1940s.

New at Project Gutenberg (7 August 2010)

Actually, these might have been posted anytime during the last fortnight; I've not been regularly checking the feeds recently.

Links on author, publisher, or year fetches more matching fiction.

1. Algernon Blackwood's "Three John Silence Stories"; download: Looks like horror. Contents are: "A psychical invasion", "Ancient sorceries", & "The nemesis of fire".
2. [novel] E E "doc" Smith's "Spacehounds of IPC"; download; Amazing Stories, July-September 1931.

Related: Fiction from old "pulps".

Free fiction: Massive collection of old pulp magazines

I was recently pointed to a HUGE torrent - 80GB+. Huge library of old issues of Argosy, Astounding, If, Galaxy, Amazing Stories, & more. Mostly scans as CBR files, but some issues are in the form of much smaller text files too.

I've been avoiding to talk about it, let alone link it, because it's not all clean. Torrent includes some clearly illegitimate stuff, though at first sight it appears to be mostly clean. In any case, the stuff I find most interesting is in the clean parts.

While I cannot link its URL, Google should be able to locate it - look for torrents with "pulp magazines" in title. It appears to be quite old, but is still alive.

I've linked several of these in the past elsewhere. While I've not reconciled individual issues with what I already have, I think this lot includes several I haven't seen online before.

In the issues' list below, link on a specific issue name goes to individual post about it, if I have one. These individual issue posts have alternate download links too, where I'm aware of them. Links on a magazine name yield more fiction from the magazine.

Lot includes, among other things:

1. Astounding: January 1930, February 1930, March 1930, April 1930, May 1930, June 1930, July 1930, August 1930, September 1930, October 1930, November 1930, December 1930, February 1932, January 1935, April 1935, January 1936, August 1937, January 1938, August 1938, March 1940, October 1940, March 1941 (with a few pages missing), June 1941, August 1941, October 1941, December 1941, May 1942, November 1942, January 1943, April 1943, December 1943, June 1944, July 1944, August 1944, September 1944, November 1944, December 1944, January 1945, February 1945, July 1945, August 1945, September 1945, October 1945, November 1945, January 1946, February 1946, March 1946, April 1946, May 1946, June 1946, July 1946, August 1946, September 1946, October 1946, November 1946, December 1946, January 1947, February 1947, March 1947, April 1947, May 1947, June 1947, July 1947, August 1947, September 1947, October 1947, November 1947, December 1947, January 1948, February 1948, April 1948, May 1948, June 1948, July 1948, August 1948, September 1948, October 1948, November 1948, December 1948, January 1949, March 1949, May 1949, June 1949, July 1949, August 1949, November 1949, December 1950, February 1951, August 1951, February 1952, November 1953, July 1955, September 1955 (British edition), October 1955 (British edition), June 1957, October 1959, January 1960 (British edition).
2. Galaxy: October 1950, November 1950 (World edition), December 1950 (World edition), January 1951 (World edition), February 1951 (World edition), March 1951, March 1951 (World edition), April 1951, May 1951, May 1951 (World edition), June 1951 (World edition), July 1951 (World edition), August 1951 (World edition), September 1951 (World edition), October 1951, November 1951, December 1951, January 1952, February 1952, March 1952, April 1952, May 1952, June 1925, July 1952, August 1952, September 1952, October 1952, November 1952, December 1952, January 1953, February 1953, March 1953, April 1953, May 1953, July 1953, August 1953, September 1953, October 1953, November 1953, December 1953, January 1954, March 1954.
3. Thrilling Wonder Stories: February 1937, December 1937, June 1939, December 1940, February 1941, June 1943, Fall 1943, Spring 1944, Spring 1945, Fall 1945, August 1947, December 1947, February 1948, June 1948.
4. If: March 1952, May 1952, July 1952, September 1952, November 1952, January 1953, March 1953, May 1953, July 1953, September 1953, November 1953, January 1954, April 1954, July 1954, November 1954, April 1956, February 1958, June 1958.
5. Amazing Stories:  April 1926, May 1926, June 1926, July 1926, October 1926, November 1926, December 1926, January 1927, June 1927, August 1927, November 1927, December 1927, February 1928, April 1928, May 1928, August 1928, March 1929, July 1929, August 1929, November 1929, April 1930, May 1930, June 1930, July 1930, August 1930, January 1931, April 1931, April 1932, October 1932, April 1934, May 1934, June 1934, July 1934, August 1934, October 1934, January 1935, March 1935, June 1938, November 1938, December 1938, January 1939, February 1939, May 1939, June 1939, July 1939, December 1939, January 1940, February 1940, April 1940, May 1940, June 1940, July 1940, August 1940, September 1940, October 1940, November 1940, December 1940, January 1941, February 1941, April 1941, May 1941, June 1941, July 1941, August 1941, September 1941, October 1941, November 1941, December 1941, January 1942, March 1942, April 1942, May 1942, June 1942, July 1942, August 1942, September 1942, October 1924, November 1942, December 1942, January 1943, March 1943, April 1943, May 1943, June 1943, July 1943, August 1943, September 1943, November 1943, January 1944, March 1944, May 1944, September 1944, December 1944, March 1945, June 1945, September 1945, December 1945, February 1946, May 1946, June 1946, July 1946, August 1946, September 1946, October 1946, November 1946, December 1946, January 1947, February 1947, March 1947, April 1947, May 1947, June 1947, July 1947, August 1947, September 1947, June 1948, August 1948, February 1949, September 1949, February 1951, January 1952, November 1952, April 1953, March 1954.
6. Amazing Stories Quarterly: Winter 1928, Spring 1928, Summer 1928, Fall 1928, Fall 1929, Winter 1931, Fall 1931, Spring 1933.
7. F&SF:  #1 (September 1949), January 1950, Summer 1950, Fall 1950, December 1950, February 1951, April 1951, June 1951, August 1951, May 1957, July 1957, August 1958, September 1958, October 1958, January 1959.
8. Argosy:  July 1877, August 1877, September 1877, November 1877, December 1877, April 1891, March 1897, April 1897, May 1897, June 1897, July 1897, August 1897, September 1897, October 1897, November 1908, 21 October 1922, 28 October 1922, 4 November 1922, 11 November 1922, 1 December 1923, 8 December 1923, 15 December 1923, 15 September 1928, 15 March 1930, 26 June 1937, 3 July 1937, 24 July 1937, 1 March 1941, 8 March 1941, 15 March 1941, 22 March 1941, 29 March 1941, 12 April 1941.
9. Golden Argosy:  31 March 1888, 7 April 1888, 14 April 1888, 21 April 1888.
10. All-Story Weekly: 19 June 1920.
11. Dynamic Science Stories: February 1939, May 1939.
12. Fantastic Universe: June 1953, June 1955, August 1955, October 1955, November 1955, December 1955, September 1957, June 1960.
13. Imagination: April 1951, November 1951, July 1953, May 1954, January 1955, April 1956, April 1958.
14. Planet Stories: #3 (UK edition), #11 (New Zealand edition), November 1939, Fall 1944, Spring 1946, November 1950, January 1951, May 1951, July 1951, November 1952.
15. Startling Stories: #14 (New Zealand edition), January 1939, March 1939, May 1939, November 1939, January 1940, May 1940 (some pages missing), November 1941, June 1946, January 1947, May 1947, September 1950, March 1951, November 1951, August 1952 (UK edition), December 1952, Winter 1955, Summer 1955.
16. Super Science Stories: April 1950, April 1951.
17. Weird Tales: October 1936, October 1937, March 1938, November 1941, July 1944, September 1945 (Canadian edition), January 1946 (Canadian edition), May 1947, May 1950.
18. Abraham Merritt's Fantasy Magazine: February 1950.
19. Avon Fantasy Reader: #12, #14 (1950), #15, #17.
20. Avon Science Fiction Reader: #1, #2, #3.
21. Future Science Fiction: November 1951.
22. Marvel Science Stories: August 1938, November 1950.
23. Space Science Fiction: September 1952.
24. Unknown Worlds: August 1943.
25. Unknown: May 1940.
26. Wonder Stories Quarterly: September 1930, Summer 1932, August 1932.
27. Wonder Story Annual:  1951, 1952, 1953.
28. Wonder Stories: December 1930, January 1931, May 1931, December 1934, February 1936.

Related: Fiction from old "pulps".

"Astounding Science Fiction", October 1949 (ed John W Campbell, Jr) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

Scans of this magazine in CBR format are online as part of a larger package.

Table of contents.

1. [novelette] Chan Davis' "The Aristocrat": "Elder Steven had a job to do - a hard, thankless task for a man born sick in a sick world. And it was doubly hard to see which way progress lay - for either side!"
   
2. [novelette] L Ron Hubbard's "The Automagic Horse": "The only professional miracle-makers today - to whom making science-fiction come true is a run-of-the-mill assignment - are not in laboratories. But there was one who wanted that lab -"
3. Raymond F Jones' "Production Test": "This is the story of a spacesuit - a fine, practical discussion of the impracticability of mere theoretical checks on how things ought to work!"
4. Poul Anderson's "Time Heals": "It's a safe bet that, eventually, men will find a cure for all diseases; if only a sick man could wait long enough, time would, indeed, heal. But it can also hurt -"
5. Kris Neville's "Cold War".
6. E L Locke's "The Finan-seer": "When Professors try tackling the wall Street professionals, a good job of trimming is to be expected."
7. Katherine MacLean's "Defense Mechanism": "Telepathic power would be a wonderful gift - or is it? There might be some question as to whether it, & its possessor, could survive, after all ..."

See also.

1. Fiction from Analog/Astounding (only issues edited by Harry Bates, John Campbell).
2. Stories written by John Campbell.
3. Fiction from old "pulp" magazines.
4. Fiction from 1940s.

"Galaxy Science Fiction", Vol 9 No 4 (January 1955) (ed H L Gold) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

Scans of this magazine in CBR format are online as part of a larger package.

"The Tunnel Under the World" is one of the most famous stories of the genre. Creepy, but with a very cool ending.

Text of a few of the stories is online elsewhere too; I link where appropriate.

Table of contents (6 stories, best first).

Links on author fetch more fiction by author. My rating is in brackets.

1. [novelet] Frederik Pohl's "The Tunnel Under the World" (A); download; advertising dystopia: "Pinching yourself is no way of seeing if you're dreaming. Surgical instruments? Well, yes - but a mechanic's kit is best of all!"
2. [novelet] Richard Stockham's "Perfect Control": "Why can't you go home again after years in space? There had to be an answer ... could he find it in time, though?"
3. [novelet] Theodore Sturgeon's "When You're Smiling".
4. [novelet] Robert Sheckley's "Squirrel Cage": "If your planet needs the services of a good exterminator, then call in AAA Ace - but not if it is overrun with anything like slegs!"
5. [ss] Evelyn E Smith's "The Vilbar Party"; download: '"Nuts to you" was what Narli knew Earthmen would tell him ... only it was frismil nuts!"
6. [ss] Jerry Sohl's "Brknk's Bounty"; download: "From a feature writer to a feature attraction - now there's a real boozes-to-riches success story!"

Related.

1. Fiction from Galaxy.
2. "Pulp" magazines.
3. Works of H L Gold.
4. Fiction from 1950s.

"Startling Stories", "Thrilling Wonder Stories", & "Fantastic Story Magazine" as a single magazine issue - Summer 1955 (magazine, free): Annotated ToC

This is an unusual "magazine" issue - three magazines combined in a single bound form & a single ToC that for all practical purposes reads like a single magazine! I've no idea how to correctly refer to this issue in other articles - may be by naming any of the 3 included "magazines" should do!

Scans of the magazine are online in CBR format.

Table of contents.

1. [novelet] Robert F Young's "An Apple for the Teacher": "Her pupils handed in the usual run of compositions - & she never expected to find one that was out of this world".
2. [novelet] Murray Leinster's "White Spot": "There was only one possible planet to land on, & it had a strange white spot that burst into a flaming blackness!"
3. [novelet] Bryce Walton's "Awakening": "Perhaps humans cannot live without loving - but Alice, the android, soon found out that she could love without living".
4. [ss] Gordon R Dickson's "Moon, June, Spoon, Croon": "I love thee with my coils & tubes - & my gamma rays!"
5. [ss] Richard R Smith's "The Angry House": "The house faced this riddle: When is a guest not a guest?
   
   I've not read this story, but description sounds too much like last year's "Live and exclusive" (download) by Aditya Sudarshan.
6. [ss] Alfred Coppel's "Touch the Sky": "The infinite can be beautiful, but it can have its limits".
7. [ss] Leslie Waltham's "The Thirteen Juror": "From a ship in space, he saw his wife in another man's arms".
8. [ss] Miriam Allen deFord's "Timeout for Redheads": "It took a trip in time in order to make a man out of Mikel".
9. [ss] R W Stockheker's "The Rogue Waveform": "Freddy the Wrestler was only happy when everybody hated him".

See also.

1. Fiction from Startling Stories, Thrilling Wonder Stories.
2. Fiction from old "pulp" magazines.
3. Fiction from 1950s.

"Astounding Science Fiction", Vol XLIV, No 3 (November 1949) (ed John W Campbell, Jr) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

Scans of this magazine in CBR format are online as part of a larger package.

This is the famous Astounding issue whose contents 'were "predicted" by a letter from a year prior in the Nov 48 issue.' 

Asimov's story is the original magazine version (with a less well-known title) of "Second Foundation", the third novel in the original Foundation trilogy.

Table of contents.

My rating is in brackets. Where I have a separate post on a story, link on story title goes there. Link on author fetches more works of author.

1. [serial - part 1/3] Isaac Asimov's "... And Now You Don't" aka "Second Foundation": "It was an inevitable - but not quite inescapable conflict. The First Foundation HAD to find the Second Foundation; the Second Foundation HAD to prevent it - or die!"
2. [serial - part 1/2] Robert A Heinlein's "Gulf": "The enemy wanted those films, & they were playing for keeps, with no holds or costs barred. The government agent had to get them through. But - where did the fat man with the talking cards fit in ... ?"
3. [novelette] Theodore Sturgeon's "What Dead Men Tell" (B): "It's a curious thing that a corpse - a remarkably noticeable object - can be overlooked so easily. One tends to shy away, even when it has a message to deliver -"
4. [ss] Lester del Rey's "Over the Top" (A): "The first man on Mars - in a ruined rocket - was in a fine impartial position to listen to the insanities of Earth building up another war. Surely, he, of all men, could do least about it, & was least concerned!"
5. [ss] A E van Vogt's "Final Command" (B): "Most wars arise because enemies do not understand each other. But this time the enemy didn't know who they were fighting!"
6. [ss] L Sprague de Camp's "Finished" (A): "Most men are finished when they're dead. It's a very unusual king - or very unusual circumstances - that can bring his people knowledge & advancement when he's been dead for years!"
   
   This story is part of the series called "Viagens Interplanetarias" 

See also.

1. Fiction from Analog/Astounding (only issues edited by Harry Bates, John Campbell).
2. Stories written by John Campbell.
3. Fiction from old "pulp" magazines.
4. Fiction from 1940s.

New at Project Gutenberg (2 July 2010)

Links on author, publisher, or year fetch more matching fiction.

1. H B Hickey's "The Eye of Wilbur Mook"; download; Amazing Stories, November 1948.

Related: Fiction from old "pulp" magazines.

New at Project Gutenberg (26 June 2010)

Links on author, publisher, or year fetch more matching fiction.

1. [novel] Jules Verne's "Round the World in Eighty Days" (trans Henry Frith); download; 1878: "Round the World in Eighty Days (London: Routledge, 1878) was the third English translation of Jules Verne's Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours to be published. It has since been greatly overshadowed by the 1873 version by George Makepeace Towle".

Related: Fiction from old "pulp" magazines.

"Astounding Science Fiction", June 1955 (ed John W Campbell, Jr) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

Scans of this magazine in CBR format are online as part of a larger package.

Table of contents.

1. [short novel] Everett B Cole's "Final Weapon": "Man has developed many a deadly weapon. Today, the weapon most effective in destroying a man's hopes & security is the file folder ... & that was the weapon Morley knew & loved. But there was something more potent to come."
2. [novelette] E G von Wald's "Shock Absorber" (B); download: A man acts on what he believes the facts are, not on the facts. He lives or dies by what the facts are. Now sometimes you don't have time to correct a man's beliefs, yet he must act correctly ..."
3. [ss] Irving Cox, Jr's "The Guardians": "It's not always "The Truth shall set you free!" Sometimes it's "Want of the Truth shall drive you to escape!" And that can be dangerous!"
4. [ss] J Francis McComas' "Criminal Negligence": "Somebody was going to have to be left behind ... & who it would be was perfectly obvious ..."
5. [ss] John O'Keefe's "As Long As You Wish": "If, somehow, you get trapped in a circular time system ... how long is the circumference of an infinitely retraced circle?"
6. [serial - part 3/4] Poul Anderson's "The Long Way Home": "It's almost impossible for a man with one life-long orientation to understand someone whose thinking is all oriented in a widely different culture. And that makes for unpredictability. But it is, also, always a two-edged sword!"

See also.

1. Fiction from Analog/Astounding (only issues edited by Harry Bates, John Campbell).
2. Stories written by John Campbell.
3. Fiction from old "pulp" magazines.
4. Fiction from 1950s.

New at Project Gutenberg (24 June 2010)

Links on author, publisher, or year fetch more matching fiction.

1. Randall Garrett & Stephen Marlowe's "Quest of the Golden Ape"; download; Amazing Stories, January-March 1957: "How could this man awaken with no past--no childhood--no recollection except of a vague world of terror from which his mother cried out for vengeance and the slaughter of his own people stood as a monument of infamy?"

Related: Fiction from old "pulp" magazines.

New at Project Gutenberg (20 June 2010)

Links on author, publisher, or year fetch more matching fiction.

1. Paul Ernst's "Mask of Death"; download; Weird Tales, August-September 1936: "a strange criminal who called himself Doctor Satan, and the terrible doom with which he struck down his enemies".
2. John York Cabot's "Rats in the Belfry"; download; Amazing Stories, January 1943: "This house was built to specifications that were strange indeed; and the rats that inhabited it were stranger still!"
3. Stanton A Coblentz's "The Cosmic Deflector; download; Amazing Stories, January 1943: "It's one thing to force the Earth out of its orbit, and another to force it back in again!"
4. Lee Francis' "Phantom of the Forest"; download; Amazing Stories, November 1948: "Every year men slaughter deer by the thousands; it seems only fitting that the tables be turned once in a while..."
5. Noel Miller Loomis' "You Too Can Be A Millionaire"; download; If, November 1952: 'Money was worthless, yet no man dared go broke. It was all pretty confusing to Mark until "Point-Plus-Pearlie" told him--YOU TOO CAN BE A MILLIONAIRE'.
6. Bryce Walton's "The Victor"; download; If, March 1953: "Under the new system of the Managerials, the fight was not for life but for death! And great was the ingenuity of--The Victor."
7. Bryce Walton's "Thy Name Is Woman"; download; If, March 1953: "Women of earth had finally attained their objective: a new world all their own and--without men! But was it?"
8. William Campbell Gault's "The Huddlers"; download; If, May 1953: "He was a reporter from Venus with an assignment on Earth. He got his story but, against orders, he fell in love--and therein lies this story."
9. Thomas L Sherred's "Cue for Quiet"; download; Space Science Fiction, May & July 1953: "a man with a headache--who found a cure for it! And the cure gave him more power than any man could dream of."
10. A H Phelps' "The Merchants of Venus"; download; Galaxy, March 1954: "A pioneer movement is like a building--the foundation is never built for beauty!"
11. Stephen Marlowe's "Home is Where You Left It"; download; Amazing Stories, February 1957: "How black is the blackest treachery? Is the most callous traitor entitled to mercy? Steve pondered these questions. His decision? That at times the villain should possibly be spoken of as a hero."

Related: Fiction from old "pulp" magazines.

New at Project Gutenberg (19 June 2010)

Links on author, publisher, or year fetch more matching fiction.

1. P F Costello's "Death Makes A Mistake"; download; Amazing Stories, January 1943: "Mr Demise had Reggie Van Fiddler's name in his book, but Reggie didn't want to be on any list, so he set out to correct the mistake!"
2. E J Liston's "Castle of Terror"; download; Amazing Stories, November 1948: "What strange dimension was this where giants, gangsters, Lucretia Borgia, dwarfs and Rip Van Winkle lived at the same time?"
3. Richard Stockham's "Circle of Flight"; download; If, May 1953.
4. Robert E Gilbert's "Thy Rocks and Rills"; download; If, September 1953: "They were out of place in the Manly Age--Stonecypher, a man who loved animals; Moe, a bull who hated men. Together, they marched to inevitably similar destinies..."
   This has been at BaenCD & Webscription a long time, as part of the anthology "The World Turned Upside Down". I don't think I liked the story, & I don't recollect many details; very brief summary is included in my anthology post.
5. Henry M Stanley's "My Dark Companions And Their Strange Stories"; download; unknown year of original publication: This looks like a "people telling stories around a campfire" type of thing. I'm not sure whether it's best seen as a short story collection or novel. A cursory glance does suggest it's genre.

Related: Fiction from old "pulp" magazines.

"Thrilling Wonder Stories", Spring 1945 (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

Scans of this magazine in CBR format are available as part of a larger package.
Caution: CBR probably has a few pages missing; when I renamed it as RAR, I had to extract with WinRAR's extraction dialog's "Keep Broken Files" switch on because of errors.

Table of contents.

1. [novel] Jerry Shelton's "Devils from Darkonia": When strange demons drive him haywire, Professor Bradley learns that if you advertise for the Devil, that worthy - or a reasonable facsimile of same - is sure to appear!"
2. [novelette] Ross Rocklynne's "Venus Sky-Trap": "With a girl's life at stake, Reg Mason & Pirate Aarn take a chance to balk a villain!"
3. [novelette] Henry Kuttner's "Baby Face": "When a tough sergeant reverts to infancy he just won't be weaned from fighting mankind's foes!"
4. [ss] Arthur G Stangland's "The Plant Man": "Jefferson Smith becomes a most remarkable being".
5. [ss] Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr's "Delvers in Destiny": "A conquest-mad dictator flees back into the past".
6. [ss] Polton Cross' "Mark Grayson Unlimited": " Dr Grayson's image goes marching on!"
7. [ss] Sam Merwin, Jr's "No Greater Worlds": "Agonto Tenodin's ship roars into outer space".

Related:

Related.

1. Fiction from Thrilling Wonder Stories.
2. "Pulp" magazines.
3. Fiction from 1940s.

New at Project Gutenberg (18 June 2010)

Links on author, publisher, or year fetch more matching fiction.

1. [novel] Jean Ingelow's "Mopsa the Fairy"; download; 1919.
2. C L Moore's "The Tree of Life"; download; Weird Tales, October 1936: "A gripping tale of the planet Mars and the terrible monstrosity that called its victims to it from afar--a tale of Northwest Smith".
3. H B Hickey's "Beyond The Thunder"; download; Amazing Stories, December 1948: "What was this blinding force that came out of a hole in the sky, and was powerful enough to destroy an entire city? Case thought he knew..."
4. Paul Orban and Con Pederson's "The Genius"; download; If, May 1954: "Sethos was a great artist, a talented man, quite possibly the most famous man of his time and world. But, alas!--there were other worlds. And is not the grass always greener...?"
5. Richard Stockham's "Perchance to Dream"; download; If, May 1954: "If you wish to escape, if you would go to faraway places, then go to sleep and dream. For sometimes that is the only way..."
6. William Douglas Morrison's "Bedside Manner"; download; Galaxy, May 1954: "Broken, helpless, she had to trust an alien doctor to give her back her body and mind--a doctor who had never seen a human before!"
   
   While I've not read this story, plot sounds a lot like Arthur Clarke's "Playback".
7. Alan Cogan's "In the Cards"; download; Galaxy, June 1956: "It is one thing to safeguard the future ... and something else entirely to see someone you love cry in terror two years from now!"

Related: Fiction from old "pulp" magazines.

New at Project Gutenberg (17 June 2010)

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1. Edmond Hamilton's "The Door into Infinity"; download; Weird Tales, August-September 1936.
2. Walter M Miller's "Check and Checkmate"; download; If, January 1953: "Victory hinges not always on the mightiest sword, but often on lowly subterfuge. Here is a classic example, with the Western World as stooge!"
3. Robert Abernathy's "When the Mountain Shook"; download; If, March 1954: "Dark was the Ryzga mountain and forbidding; steep were its cliffs and sheer its crevasses. But its outward perils could not compare with the Ryzgas themselves, who slept within, ready to wake and conquer..."

Related: Fiction from old "pulp" magazines.