Images and Thoughts to Inspire Your Intellect and Infuse Your Imagination!
It’s Such A Beautiful Day, by Isaac Asimov
The Strawberry Window, by Ray Bradbury
The Deep Range, by Arthur C. Clarke
Alien, by Lester del Rey
Foster, You’re Dead, by Philip K. Dick
Whatever Happened to Corporal; Cuckoo?, by Gerald Kersh
Dance of the Dead, by Richard Matheson
Any More At Home Like You?, by Chad Oliver
The Devil on Salvation Bluff, by Jack Vance
Guinevere for Everybody, by Jack Williamson
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Fredric Brown’s novel – note that his name is presented as “Frederick” – originally appeared as a single installment within the September, 1954 issue of Astounding Science Fiction.
The cover of this particular issue of Astounding is representative of the magazine’s cover design for the latter part of the 1950s: The majority of issues published from February, 1954 through November, 1959 featured – always in the upper left corner – a diagram, abstract representation, or symbol of an aspect of the physical sciences (biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering / technology) with a brief explanatory “blurb” within the magazine’s table of contents.
So, for September of 1954, we have: “Optical confusion: The eye cannot simultaneously focus on pure red and pure blue.”
Well, I don’t know if it’s really that confusing. At least, it wouldn’t be for a Martian peering through the oversized keyhole!
My personal favorite is from December of 1957, and needs little explanation…
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Detail from cover
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Detail from cover
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Cyril M. Kornbluth, 1939 (Photo by Robert A. Madle)
Contents
The War Is Over, by Algis Burdys, from Astounding Science Fiction, February, 1957
The Light, by Poul Anderson, from Galaxy Science Fiction, March, 1957
Compassion Circuit, by John Wyndham, from Fantastic Universe, December, 1954
Volpla, by Wyman Guin, from Galaxy Science Fiction, May, 1956
Silence, Please!, by Arthur C. Clarke, from Science Fantasy Magazine, Winter, 1950
Allegory, by William T. Powers, from Astounding Science Fiction, April, 1953
Soap Opera, by Alan Nelson, from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April, 1953
Shipping Clerk, by William Morrison, from Galaxy Science Fiction, June, 1952
Technological Retreat, by G.C. Edmondson, from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May, 1956
The Analogues, by Damon Knight, from Astounding Science Fiction, January, 1952
The Available Data on The Worp Reaction, by Lion Miller, from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September, 1953
The Skills of Xanadu, by Theodore Sturgeon, from Galaxy Science Fiction, July, 1958
The Machine, by Richard Gehman, from Collier’s, December, 14, 1946
Bodyguard, by Christopher Grimm
How-2, by Clifford D. Simak
Delay In Transit, by F.L. Wallace
The City of Force, by Daniel F. Galouye
Whatever Counts, by Frederik Pohl
The Anomaly of The Empty Man
The First, 1952
Balaam, 1954
They Bite, 1947
Snulbug, 1941
Elsewhere
Secret of The House, 1943
Sriberdegibit, 1947
Star Bride
Review Copy, 1949
The Other Inauguration
