Amazing Stories, May 1963

May 1963 Issue—Content Summary

This May 1963 issue of Amazing Stories (Vol. 37, No. 5) contains two novelets and two short stories, plus fact articles. Henry Slesar's "Jobo" follows a gentle, unusually strong man in Tennessee who endures mockery from townspeople while maintaining patience, drawing parallels to the biblical Job. His narrative shifts to John Tilletson, a lame archaeologist investigating Easter Island's famous stone statues. Tilletson has traveled there after receiving a mysterious twelve-inch metal artifact from oceanographer colleague Clurman, a miniature version of the monoliths but crafted with fine metalwork detail—contradicting Easter Island's known materials. Leigh Brackett contributes "The Road to Sinharat," while Robert F. Young and Albert Teichner provide short stories. Non-fiction includes Alexander Kazantsev on Soviet views of American space exploration and Ben Bova's "Where Is Everybody?" The issue also features a Fritz Leiber Fafhrd and the Mouser story, "The Cloud of Hate," and John Jakes's fantasy tale of demons and treasure called "Devils in the Walls."