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Five Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1950s

  • Breeder Reaction written by Winston Marks - The remarkable thing about Atummyc Afterbath Dusting Powder was that it gave you that lovely radiant atomic look. It also gave you a little something more!
  • Planet of Dreams written by James McKimmy Jr. - The climate was perfect, the sky was always blue, and--best of all--nobody had to work. What more could anyone want? It was a small world, a tiny spinning globe, placed in the universe to weather and age by itself until the end of things. Daniel Loveral had placed a finger upon a map and said, "This is the planet. This is the Dream Planet."
  • And All The Girls Were Nude by Richard Magruder - Nathanial Evergood was an eccentric old man with a photographic passion for pretty girls. So he invented a camera lens for special effects — And All The Girls Were Nude!
  • Never Gut-Shoot A Wampus by Winston Marks - An interstellar hunting trip with Major Daphne could teach a man a number of lessons. Like being kind to fellow human beings, or— Never Gut-Shoot A Wampus!
  • Three Spacemen Left To Die by Russ Winterbotham - Disease contaminated their ship; any moment one of them might become infected and spray lethal sparks to the others. There was no cure—except prevention. And that meant — Three Spacemen Left To Die!

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