Amazing Stories, June 1963

# AMAZING STORIES, June 1963

This issue features the two-part serial The Programmed People by Jack Sharkey, which opens a totalitarian society built on mandatory voting and conformity. Lloyd Bodger, navigating the rigid Hive's Temple of collective voting, discovers a fugitive blonde girl being hunted as a traitor—though she mysteriously seems unconcerned about facing "Readjustment." The novelet The Encounter by J.G. Ballard spans 90 pages. Short stories include The Demi-Urge by Thomas Disch, Telempathy by Vance Simonds, and Through Channels by Arthur Porges. A profile examines author Eric Frank Russell. The editorial discusses Soviet astronomer Shklovsky's controversial theory that signals from advanced civilizations should be sought in the Andromeda Nebula rather than nearby stars.