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Fantastic Stories Presents the Fantastic Universe Super Pack #3 - A Positronic Book
Hardcover
Series: Positronic Super Pack, Book 26
ISBN13: 9781515420927
Publisher: Positronic Publishing
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 374
Weight: 1.90
Height: 0.88 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
More than 100,000 words of classic science fiction and fantasy are gathered in this oversized third volume of the Fantastic Universe Super Pack series. Launched in 1953 and published until March 1960, Fantastic Universe was one of the stronger magazines to emerge during the great science fiction magazine boom, printing imaginative, adventurous, and sometimes eccentric work by major names and energetic pulp-era professionals. This collection brings together stories of Conan adventure, alien worlds, robots, time travel, strange mutations, cosmic danger, comic invention, lost civilizations, future war, and the old magazine-era pleasure of never knowing what the next story will do.
Included in this volume are:
Gods of the North by Robert E. Howard
The Hohokam Dig by Theodore Pratt
Operation Earthworm by Joe Archibald
G-r-r-r . . . ! by Roger Arcot
The Hoofer by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Conquest over Time by Michael Shaara
Rescue Squad by Thomas J. O'Hara
The Shining Cow by Alex James
Of Time and Texas by William F. Nolan
The Helpful Robots by Robert J. Shea
The Flying Cuspidors by V. R. Francis
The Psilent Partner by Edward S. Staub and John Victor Peterson
Happy Ending by Mack Reynolds and Fredric Brown
It's a Small Solar System by Allan Howard
The Very Black by Dean Evans
The Second Voice by Mann Rubin
Rastignac the Devil by Philip José Farmer
Texas Week by Albert Hernhuter
The House from Nowhere by Arthur G. Stangland
A World Apart by Sam Merwin, Jr.
Bear Trap by Alan E. Nourse
Now We Are Three by Joe L. Hensley
One out of Ten by J. Anthony Ferlaine
The Calm Man by Frank Belknap Long
Foundling on Venus by John & Dorothy de Courcy
The Doorway by Evelyn E. Smith
Second Sight by Basil Wells
Lighter than You Think by Nelson Bond
The Long Voyage by Carl Jacobi
Year of the Big Thaw by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Together these stories show why the mid-century science fiction magazines remain such rich territory for rediscovery. The volume includes established classics, future major novelists, Weird Tales veterans, postwar SF professionals, comic writers, adventure writers, and speculative experimenters, all working in the compact, high-energy form that made magazine science fiction so addictive. For readers of Golden Age science fiction, classic fantasy, pulp magazines, vintage space adventure, robot fiction, and forgotten magazine stories, this Super Pack offers a substantial single-volume return to the field's lively mid-century imagination. 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.
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