Out of This World #8

Jan 1962 · Alan Class · 1'- [0-1-0 GBP]

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This anthology issue contains the story "Phantom Cargo," in which a man awakens from a three-hundred-year sleep aboard a spacecraft to find himself serving as the pilot of a ship carrying humanity's last hope to a new planet. The captain reveals that the original pilot died, and this man must complete the mission by landing the ship on a strange new world, as he represents mankind's only chance for survival and the continuation of human civilization.

Contains 12 stories

The Time Chamber

5 pp · Science Fiction

The World of Missing Men

10 pp · Science Fiction

Disaster at Eden Isle

7 pp · Science Fiction

Guest of the Ghosts in Archer's Gulch

6 pp · Fantasy, Western-Frontier

Fair Exchange!

3 pp · Science Fiction

Webfoot

6 pp · Science Fiction

Which Witch Doctor?

2 pp · Fantasy

Meeting on the Moon

3 pp · Science Fiction

The Second World of Cary

7 pp · Science Fiction

It's a Small World

7 pp · Fantasy

The Cure!

3 pp · Science Fiction

In "The Cure!", a desperate doctor uses a time machine to erase the common cold virus from history, hoping to end endless sniffles forever—only to return to a present where the absence of the virus has unleashed a terrifying infestation of beetles, now thriving in the ecological vacuum left behind.

The Heel and the Healer

6 pp · Fantasy