Synopsis
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 fields best known writers. This is our third Fantastic universe Superpack. Collected in this over sized edition are more than 100,000 words of science fiction and fantasy. Escape back to the golden age of science fiction! If you enjoyed this book, you'll want to search on "Positronic Publishing Super Pack" and check out all our other Super Packs!
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
À propos des auteurs
Robert E. Howard (1906-1936) was an American pulp writer best known as the creator of Conan the Cimmerian and one of the founding figures of sword-and-sorcery fiction. Born and raised in Texas, Howard wrote with extraordinary speed and intensity for the pulp magazines, publishing adventure, fantasy, horror, historical fiction, boxing stories, westerns, and weird fiction. His work appeared in magazines such as Weird Tales, where he helped define a new kind of heroic fantasy built on violent action, ancient kingdoms, brooding atmosphere, and larger-than-life protagonists.Howard's influence on fantasy and adventure fiction is enormous. Conan, Kull, Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, and his other characters helped establish the muscular, dangerous, myth-haunted mode that later became central to modern fantasy gaming, comics, paperbacks, film, and popular culture. "Gods of the North," an early version of material later associated with Conan, shows Howard's gift for combining barbaric energy, supernatural menace, and mythic intensity. For readers of classic fantasy, pulp adventure, sword and sorcery, weird fiction, and heroic literature, Howard remains indispensable.
Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1923-1996) was an American science fiction writer best known for A Canticle for Leibowitz, one of the most important post-apocalyptic novels of the twentieth century. Born in Florida, Miller served as a radio operator and tail gunner during World War II, an experience that deeply marked his imagination and later fiction. His short stories appeared in the major science fiction magazines of the 1950s, where he developed a reputation for thoughtful, morally serious speculative fiction concerned with technology, faith, memory, guilt, war, and the survival of civilization.Miller's fiction often carries more emotional and ethical weight than the average magazine adventure story. Even when working in compact forms, he brought attention to human vulnerability, professional duty, religious questioning, social collapse, and the long consequences of violence. "The Hoofer" belongs to that magazine-era body of work and shows Miller before the full emergence of A Canticle for Leibowitz, already working with the pressures of space, vocation, risk, and human limitation. For readers of classic science fiction, postwar SF, Catholic-inflected speculative fiction, and serious magazine-era storytelling, Miller remains a major figure.
Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-1999) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer whose long career included planetary romance, feminist speculative fiction, Arthurian retellings, and large-scale fantasy. She became widely known for the Darkover series and later for The Mists of Avalon, but her early work was rooted in the mid-century science fiction magazine world, where she published stories that combined adventure, alien worlds, social speculation, psychic powers, and questions of identity, gender, and cultural conflict.Bradley's career helped bridge the older pulp and magazine tradition with the later paperback fantasy and science fiction market. Her work attracted readers interested in lost civilizations, telepathy, alien cultures, women's experience in speculative settings, and the transformation of myth through modern fiction.
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