Fantastic Stories Presents the Fantastic Universe Super Pack #1

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 Jos© 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.