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1. Randall Garrett & Stephen Marlowe's "Quest of the Golden Ape"; download; Amazing Stories, January-March 1957: "How could this man awaken with no past--no childhood--no recollection except of a vague world of terror from which his mother cried out for vengeance and the slaughter of his own people stood as a monument of infamy?"

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New at Project Gutenberg (20 June 2010)

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1. Paul Ernst's "Mask of Death"; download; Weird Tales, August-September 1936: "a strange criminal who called himself Doctor Satan, and the terrible doom with which he struck down his enemies".
2. John York Cabot's "Rats in the Belfry"; download; Amazing Stories, January 1943: "This house was built to specifications that were strange indeed; and the rats that inhabited it were stranger still!"
3. Stanton A Coblentz's "The Cosmic Deflector; download; Amazing Stories, January 1943: "It's one thing to force the Earth out of its orbit, and another to force it back in again!"
4. Lee Francis' "Phantom of the Forest"; download; Amazing Stories, November 1948: "Every year men slaughter deer by the thousands; it seems only fitting that the tables be turned once in a while..."
5. Noel Miller Loomis' "You Too Can Be A Millionaire"; download; If, November 1952: 'Money was worthless, yet no man dared go broke. It was all pretty confusing to Mark until "Point-Plus-Pearlie" told him--YOU TOO CAN BE A MILLIONAIRE'.
6. Bryce Walton's "The Victor"; download; If, March 1953: "Under the new system of the Managerials, the fight was not for life but for death! And great was the ingenuity of--The Victor."
7. Bryce Walton's "Thy Name Is Woman"; download; If, March 1953: "Women of earth had finally attained their objective: a new world all their own and--without men! But was it?"
8. William Campbell Gault's "The Huddlers"; download; If, May 1953: "He was a reporter from Venus with an assignment on Earth. He got his story but, against orders, he fell in love--and therein lies this story."
9. Thomas L Sherred's "Cue for Quiet"; download; Space Science Fiction, May & July 1953: "a man with a headache--who found a cure for it! And the cure gave him more power than any man could dream of."
10. A H Phelps' "The Merchants of Venus"; download; Galaxy, March 1954: "A pioneer movement is like a building--the foundation is never built for beauty!"
11. Stephen Marlowe's "Home is Where You Left It"; download; Amazing Stories, February 1957: "How black is the blackest treachery? Is the most callous traitor entitled to mercy? Steve pondered these questions. His decision? That at times the villain should possibly be spoken of as a hero."

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New at Project Gutenberg (16 June 2010)

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Of the less well known authors, I personally have had good experience with Mark Clifton & Winston K Marks. Clifton can sometimes be very good; Marks is generally consistently readable. I haven't read their specific pieces included here, however.

1. [novel] William Richard Bradshaw's "The Goddess of Atvatabar: Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar" (1891); download: I'm not sure, but it sounds like a genre work. Some sort of adventure involving a polar expedition.
2. Dorothy Quick's "The Lost Door"; download; Weird Tales, October 1936: "An alluring but deadly horror out of past centuries menaced the life of the young American--a fascinating tale of a strange and eery love".
3. Richard S Shaver's "Daughter of the Night"; download; Amazing Stories, December 1948: "The evil magic of the Goddess Diana turned men to stone. Would the power of the strange Eos be strong enough to turn them back to living men?"
4. Philip K Dick's "Piper in the Woods"; download; Imagination, February 1953: "Earth maintained an important garrison on Asteroid Y-3. Now suddenly it was imperiled with a biological impossibility--men becoming plants!"
5. Winston K Marks' "Backlash"; download; Galaxy, January 1954: "They were the perfect servants--they were willing to do everything for nothing. The obvious question is: How much is nothing?"
6. Mark Clifton's "A Woman's Place"; download; Galaxy, May 1955: "Home is where you hang up your spaceship--that is, if you have any Miss Kitty along!"
7. Stephen Marlowe's "Think Yourself to Death"; download; Amazing Stories, March 1957: "If you've never read a Johnny Mayhem story before, you are in for a treat. Johnny, who wears different bodies the way ordinary people wear clothes, is one of the most fascinating series characters in science fiction."

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New at Project Gutenberg (15 June 2010)

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1. Charles Beaumont's "Elegy"; download; Imagination, February 1953: "It was an impossible situation: an asteroid in space where no asteroid should have been--with a city that could only have existed back on Earth!"
2. Stephen Marlowe's "World Beyond Pluto"; download; Amazing Stories, November 1958: "Johnny Mayhem, one of the most popular series characters ever to appear in AMAZING, has been absent too long. So here's good news for Mayhem fans; another great adventure of the Man of Many Bodies."

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New at Project Gutenberg (2 June 2010)

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1. Stephen Marlowe's "Earthsmith"; download; Imagination, January 1953: "Nobody at the Interstellar Space School had ever heard of Earth so naturally they treated Smith with contempt--or was it an innate fear?"
2. Irving E Cox's "Adolescents Only"; download; Imagination, January 1953: "Elvin wasn't sure how it had started--maybe it was the Schermerhorn twins--or the mysterious "meteorite"--or else the world had gone crazy..."

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Note: This will be the only post tonight. I was running late, & foolishly took up a novel for today's main post - Jack Vance's "The Languages of Pao" - rather than a short story, & am now out of time. But its writeup is partly done, so may be will have it sometime over next few days.

1. Gerald Allan Sohl's "The Seventh Order"; download; Galaxy, March 1952: "History is filled with invincible conquerors. This one from space was genuinely omnipotent, but that never keeps humanity from resisting!"
2. Lewis Parker's "The Animated Pinup"; download; Imagination, July 1953: "You're not expected to believe this story since it's the kind of thing that science calls impossible. But anyway, she happened. Who? Why--"
3. Robert Sheckley's "Keep Your Shape"; download; Galaxy, November 1953: "Only a race as incredibly elastic as the Grom could have a single rule of war:"
4. Stephen Marlowe's "Voyage To Eternity"; download; Imagination, July 1953: "Temple faced leaving Earth--and the girl he loved--if his country drafted him. But the hard part was in knowing he'd never return!..."
5. Randall Garrett's "Time Fuze"; download; If, March 1954: "The ultradrive had just one slight drawback: it set up a shock wave that made suns explode. Which made the problem of getting back home a delicate one indeed..."
6. Roger D Aycock's "Pet Farm"; download; Galaxy, February 1954: "The next worst thing to hell is being shanghaied into the Paradise of an alien planet!"

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