During the science-fiction boom of the 1930s, there were over a dozen pulp magazines dedicated to the subject. Analog, Startling Stories, Amazing Stories, Wonder Stories, Captain Future and Super Science Stories were just a few. In 1939, the pulp magazine publisher of Jungle Stories, and many others, added its own entry into the sci-fi field, Planet Stories. Until it folded in 1955, it published ground-breaking science fiction from some of the genre's brightest stars, including such luminaries as Ray Cummings, Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr., Eando Binder, Leight Bracket, Isaac Asimov, Clifford D. Simak, Henry Kuttner, Ray Bradbury, Frederik Pohl, James Blish, A.E. van Vogt, Theodore Sturgeon, Alan E. Nourse and Robert Sheckley. Planet Stories returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
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Two Exciting Novels
The Beast-Jewel Of Mars
By Leigh Brackett
Burk Winters was a panting, shambling ape, fleeting through dark and echoing pits of horror. Behind him hissed the lashes of the jeering mob, savagely exultant at having debauched still another proud Terran into something that slavered and crawled.
The Little Monsters Come
By Ray Cummings
Desperately seeking escape from their own tortured chunk of hell, they needed a specimen from this great and gracious world they planned to steal. But swamp-roving, ‘gator-fighting Allen Nixon wasn’t the type to be cut up alive!
Two Thrilling Novelettes
Mutiny On Venus
By A. Bertram Chandler
Boiling out of the slave-ship’s stinking hold, the slimy, fever-maddened natives fought for freedom. What miracle could save the handful of sickened Earthmen on the bridge from the most terrible death in the System?
The Death From Orion
By W.J. Matthews
Tiny suns set in rare metals, crystals of fire that mocked Terra’s diamonds and pearls as lusterless pebbles and pale glass, the ancient treasure left it behind the same timeworn trail of sudden blood and stiffening corpses!
Five Fascinating Stories
Jinx Ship To The Rescue
By Alfred Coppel, Jr.
Stand by for T.R.S. Aphrodite, butt of the Space Navy. She’s got something in her guts and only her ice-cold girl-engineer can coax it out of her!
In His Image
By Bryce Walton
Towering and invulnerable, they stood on the hills, patiently awaiting their master. Meanwhile, they slew the vermin crawling below...
Asleep In Armageddon
By Ray Bradbury
Avoid Planetoid 787. Lush and sunny, with fine air and no dangerous beasts, it’ll tempt you to curve in for some nice solid-ground sleep. DON’T!
The Burnt Planet
By William Brittain
Mad with despair, they fought back from the ruins. Whoever these invaders were, they should not have a world which its defenders themselves had destroyed.
Time Trap
By Frank Belknap Long
Somebody waited for old Charley Crimes, plodding across that dark-side Luna crater — somebody who couldn’t exist!
And Planet’s Regular Feature
The Vizigraph
By The Readers
