So long as there are men and women alive, in a livable environment, then a new beginning is possible. It has been truly stated that those who fail to learn and understand history, are condemned to repeat history!
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. Two such stories were Murray Leinster’s The Mad Planet and Red Dust.Originally published in 1923, they have been reprinted frequently both here and abroad. Now Murray Leinster has written the final story in the series. It is not necessary to have read the previous stories to enjoy this one. Once again, Burl experiences magnificent adventures against a colorful background, but to the whole the author has added philosophical and psychological observations that give this story a flavor seldom achieved in science-fiction.
The gifting of animals with human speech is scarcely an unique idea; the idea of a talking horse goes back at least to the siege of Troy, for certainly there must have been some dialogue amongst the Greek warriors enclosed in the wooden horse’s belly. But we think you’ll agree that Miss Smith’s filly has something special. Incubus won every race but one. Yet though in this respect she matched Man o’ War’s record she wasn’t actually a horse at all.
“They” worried about the impression she’d make. Who could imagine that she’d fall in love, passionately, the way others of her blood must have done? Who was this strange girl who had been born in this place—and still it wasn’t her home?…
We all have to die sometime, but it’s more the manner of our going, and the reason why we must die when we do that’s the rub.
It’s well established now that the way you put a question often determines not only the answer you’ll get, but the type of answer possible. So … a mechanical answerer, geared to produce the ultimate revelations in reference to anything you want to know, might have unsuspected limitations.
A space rover has no business with a family. But what can a man in the full vigor of youth do—if his heart cries out for a home?
In a post-apocalyptic experiment scientists have an intriguing plan, in the first installment of H. Beam Piper’s excellent Terro-Human Future History series.
Open the C. Cydwick Ohms Time Door, take but a single step, and… William Nolan introduces us to the capricious Time Door of Professor C. Cydwick Ohms, guaranteed to solve the accumulated problems of the world of the year 2057.
Poor Henry was an unhappy husband whose wife had a habit of using bad clichès. Alféar was a genii who was, quite like most humans, a creature of habit. Their murder compact was absolutely perfect, with—