A complete issue · 100 pages · 1953
Future Science Fiction, May 1953
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1953 — all 100 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 100 pages · 1953
This issue of Future Science Fiction (May 1953) contains five science fiction stories of varying length. The lead novelette, "Liberation of Earth" by William Tenn, serves as the issue's centerpiece. Jack Vance contributes "Ecological Onslaught," depicting strange warfare between the Kay system and the Blue Star. "The World Is Yours!" by Harry Warner, Jr. presents a scenario where a character named Will Wilson has conquered Earth. Shorter pieces include Alfred Machado, Jr.'s "Tenth-Level Enigma," concerning dangerous unknowns above the tenth level; Walter Kubilius's "Judas of the Spaceways," involving shipboard secrets; and Lester del Rey's article "Get Thee Behind Me, Clio," discussing a historical figure named Silas McKinley. The issue features a letters column, book reviews, reader voting, and interior illustrations by various artists.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.