Dates
- Cover date
- September-October 1955
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- You, Rocket · 7 pages
Because astronauts tend to go insane when traveling through space, it is decided to use a human brain as a onboard guidance system on the next rocket into space. The brain was taken from a rocket engineer who had just died in a auto wreck. Despite years of training and conditioning, the disembodied brain panics and goes insane with fear after its rocket is sent into space.
- Fulfillment · 6 pages
A man and woman tourist blast off into space, but their robot navigator takes them far off course and they land on a planet they call Millus III. Unknown to them, the natives consider their rocket ship a god, which they worship until they are finally rescued and blast off into space again. The natives witness this and lament the loss of their god they call Ra --- the land where they live and worship called Egypt!
- Time To Leave · 6 pages
Dr. Carter succeeds in moving through time into the far future, where he is met by a man named Garvin in a room called the Control Chamber, and where he tries to convince the doctor to return to his own time as quickly as possible. The doctor doesn't want to, but when he visits the city and meets the people, he discovers that everyone looks alike, housing is identical and people travel to pre-arranged destinations. But when he desires later to return to his own time, he is in for a real surprise!
- Twice Told Tale · 1 pages
A business owner has no choice but to treat his robot employees like actual people with human rights after they go on strike.
- Has-Been · 7 pages
A rocket captain is teary eyed that he is forced to retire during an interplanetary war because he's getting too old. He's forced to retire at the age of 15 because space is for the young.
Reprinted in
Incredible Science Fiction (1982), Incredible Science Fiction (1994), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), The EC Archives: Incredible Science Fiction (2022), Mystic (1960), Spellbound (1960), The EC Archives: Incredible Science Fiction (2017)