Fantastic Universe

Started publishing in 1953 and continued until March 1960. It was one of the better magazines to launch during the boom in science fiction magazines publishing. It published many important stories by some of the field's best known writers. Collected in this oversized edition are more than 175,000 words of science fiction and fantasy. Escape back to the golden age of science fiction!

Stories Included

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 José 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