Weird Science-Fantasy #2
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "... For Posterity," two prospectors stumble upon a mysterious flying saucer that swiftly transports them across light years to a future Earth ruled by a civilization of beautiful women. The saucer reveals itself as a time machine, and the men learn they’ve been brought forward to help repopulate a world where men have vanished due to radiation. Though they return to their camp moments later, convinced it was all a dream, a lingering clue—a few of the women’s roses on their sleeping bags—suggests the journey may have been more than just a vision.
In "The Teacher From Mars," a Martian educator arrives on Earth to teach his native language, only to face relentless prejudice from his students. As tensions rise, a hidden truth about his son’s sacrifice during a battle with space pirates begins to shift the students’ perceptions — and their hearts.
In "The Pioneer," a disgraced professor, haunted by his past experiments and driven by a fanatical belief in his own genius, retreats to a remote barn to complete his revolutionary rocket engine. After a violent act against a neighbor, he's arrested and strapped into what he thinks is a test flight chair—only to face a chilling truth he can't comprehend.
In "Upheaval!", a captain and his crew land on a planet whose surface resembles green felt, only to be swallowed whole and violently expelled from its interior like vomit. As their ship lifts off, the crew is left stunned by a revelation that shatters their long-held belief in humanity’s evolutionary supremacy—proven wrong not by any known lifeform, but by the planet itself.
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↩ Reprints Weird Science-Fantasy #24 (1954)
Reprinted in Weird Science-Fantasy Annual #1 (1994)
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