Fantastic Stories Presents the Fantastic Universe Super Pack #3: A Positronic Book - Paperback

by E. Robert Howard (Author), Walter Jr. Miller (Author), Marion Zimmer Bradley (Author)

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.