Fantastic Stories Presents the Fantastic Universe Super Pack #2 collects more than 100,000 words of science fiction and fantasy from one of the liveliest magazines of the 1950s SF boom. Fantastic Universe began publishing in 1953 and continued until 1960, arriving during a crowded but fertile period when magazine science fiction was expanding in every direction: space adventure, satire, alien contact, future history, psychic powers, time travel, interplanetary danger, and strange new forms of fantasy.
This oversized second Fantastic Universe Super Pack gathers work by Harry Harrison, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Frank Belknap Long, Evelyn E. Smith, Carl Jacobi, Forrest J. Ackerman, Robert F. Young, Robert J. Shea, H. Beam Piper, Henry Kuttner, Eando Binder, Alan E. Nourse, Andre Norton, Poul Anderson, and many others. Included are:
"Arm of the Law" by Harry Harrison
"Political Application" by John Victor Peterson
"The Instant of Now" by Irving E. Cox, Jr.
"Death Between the Stars" by Marion Zimmer Bradley
"The Man from Time" by Frank Belknap Long
"Nightmare on the Nose" by Evelyn E. Smith
"Made in Tanganyika" by Carl Jacobi
"Compatible" by Richard R. Smith
"Reel Life Films" by Jacques Jean Ferrat
"Benefactor" by George H. Smith
"Out of This World Convention" by Forrest J. Ackerman
"Houlihan's Equation" by Walt Sheldon
"Collector's Item" by Robert F. Young
"Lost in the Future" by John Victor Peterson
"Resurrection" by Robert J. Shea
"Crossroads of Destiny" by H. Beam Piper
"When I Grow Up" by Richard E. Lowe
"No Pets Allowed" by M. A. Cummings
"Where the World Is Quiet" by Henry Kuttner
"Mex" by William Logan
"Shipwreck in the Sky" by Eando Binder
"The Native Soil" by Alan E. Nourse
"The Odyssey of Sam Meecham" by Charles E. Fritch
"Stopover" by William Gerken
"All Cats Are Gray" by Andre Norton
"Jimsy and the Monsters" by Walt Sheldon
"The Love of Frank Nineteen" by David C. Knight
"The Valor of Cappen Varra" by Poul Anderson
"The Record of Currupira" by Robert Abernathy
"The Most Sentimental Man" by Evelyn E. Smith
Readers looking for classic science fiction, vintage fantasy, pulp magazine fiction, space adventure, alien encounters, time-travel stories, and the golden age afterglow of 1950s speculative writing will find this Super Pack a generous trip back into the magazine racks of the period. It is a broad, energetic sampler of the field's mid-century range, from famous names to rediscovered voices, and a strong companion to the other Positronic Publishing Super Packs devoted to classic science fiction, fantasy, and adventure.