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Astounding Stories #1 (1966)

Alan Class · 1966 · 68 pages

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Contains 9 stories
To Live Again
10 pp · science fiction

Dr. Burtram Hoff has spent decades chasing a dream—the secret to youth and renewal—and now, holding a mysterious serum in his hand, he believes he's finally found it. As his aging wife Ella waits patiently by his side, Hoff's mind drifts back to his younger days in Vienna, when he was a brilliant but distracted scientist working under a demanding professor, torn between his passion for research and his love for the beautiful Ella. Now, with the accidental discovery of a formula that has miraculously restored youth to an aged test subject, Hoff stands at a crossroads between the life of science he once abandoned and the chance to reclaim the carefree existence he promised his beloved.

The Man from Mars
10 pp · science fiction

Phil Cabot, a small-town newspaperman living in Mars, Missouri, reconnects with an old friend—pilot Jack Harley—who makes an unexpected landing near his home. When Jack takes Phil for a quick joyride in his plane carrying a secret experimental antibiotic, a freak storm and instrument failure send them spiraling into chaos, forcing a desperate crash landing that sets off a chain of extraordinary events. What unfolds from that moment will reshape the fate of mankind in ways neither man could have imagined.

Dr. Wwallker
6 pp

When a traveling medicine man named Dr. Llewellyn Lloyd Wwallker rolls into a small town in the twentieth century, he's as out of place as they come—a relic of the snake-oil salesman era trying to peddle his wares to folks far too modern to fall for his pitch. Young Wendie Appleyard, always quick to help the desperate and downtrodden, rescues him from an angry mob and ends up drawn into his persuasive talk about a miraculous cure-all tonic that requires absolute faith to work. When tragedy strikes her husband, Abel, Wendie discovers whether the charlatan's remedy—or her belief in it—holds any real power.

Mad Dog
5 pp · fantasy

Brilliant biochemist Aldo Kragg, a ruthless man with a bitter grudge against society, conducts a daring experiment in a remote location—attempting to synthesize the physical gifts of dogs into a potion that will make him superior to humanity. When his serum actually transforms him into something far more dog-like than he anticipated, Kragg must race against time to reverse the horrifying effects before his mind follows his body. A tense descent into obsession becomes a reckoning with the very hubris that drove his ambition in the first place.

Who?
5 pp
A Thirst for Gold
5 pp · horror-suspense
Dennis Raft (escaped convict)

Dennis Raft, a condemned murderer who breaks out of prison to avoid execution, flees into the desert toward the border—but his desperation for gold and water leads him to terrorize an old prospector for supplies, ultimately trapping himself with a terrible irony. As Raft crosses the scorching wasteland, the harsh desert becomes judge and executioner in ways he never anticipated. A tense tale of greed and survival where the environment itself exacts a brutal price.

The Gorilla Smugglers
7 pp · adventure; jungle
Useful Boy
5 pp · fantasy

Johnny Crystal struggles with his studies and worries about becoming useful in life, but as he wanders through town, strange miracles begin occurring around him—a dying garden suddenly flourishes, a would-be criminal finds his conscience restored, an out-of-control fire mysteriously extinguishes, and a gravely ill woman is mysteriously healed. Realizing that his mere presence seems to bring about these impossible changes, Johnny discovers an unexpected path to usefulness that has nothing to do with arithmetic or reading.

The Supreme Man
10 pp · science fiction

Horace Goodley, a meek office worker nursing dreams of power and respect, encounters a pair of Venusian beings who offer him extraordinary mental abilities in exchange for becoming their agent of conquest on Earth. When the aliens' gift awakens something unexpected in Horace's conscience, he must choose between the power he's always craved and the world he came to protect. A tense battle of wills unfolds as Horace grapples with his newfound abilities and the true cost of becoming the supreme man.

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