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. Collected in this over sized edition are more than 175,000 words of science fiction and fantasy. Escape back to the golden age of science fiction! 'Exile from Space' by Judith Merril 'Cogito, Ergo Sum' by John Foster West 'Grove of the Unborn' by Lyn Venable 'Two Plus Two Makes Crazy' by Walt Sheldon 'Song in a Minor Key' by C. L. Moore 'The Helpful Robots' by Robert J. Shea 'There Will Be School Tomorrow' by V. E. Thiessen 'The Answer' by H. Beam Piper 'It's All Yours' by Sam Merwin, Jr. 'Rex ex Machina' by Frederic Max 'This One Problem' by M. C. Pease 'Small World' by William F. Nolan 'The Cartels Jungle' by Irving E. Cox, Jr. 'This Is Klon Calling' by Walt Sheldon 'The Velvet Glove' by Harry Harrison 'Moment of Truth' by Basil Wells 'No Hiding Place' by Richard R. Smith 'Beyond the Door' by Philip K. Dick 'The Laminated Woman' by Evelyn E. Smith 'Be it Ever Thus' by Robert Moore Williams 'The Man the Martians Made' by Frank Belknap Long 'My Father, the Cat' by Henry Slesar 'I like Martian Music' by Charles E. Fritch 'They Twinkled like Jewels' by Philip José Farmer 'The Mighty Dead' by William Campbell Gault 'Out of the Earth' by George Edrich 'Martyr' by Alan E. Nourse 'To Remember Charlie By' by Roger Dee 'The Amazing Mrs. Mimms' by David C. Knight 'The Sensitive Man' by Poul Anderson