Fantastic Universe started publishing in 1953 and continued until March 1960. It was one of the better magazines to launch during the boom in science fiction magazines publishing. It published many important stories by some of the fields best known writers. Collected in this over sized edition are more than 175,000 words of science fiction and fantasy. Escape back to the golden age of science fiction

Exile from Space by Judith Merril Cogito, Ergo Sum by John Foster West Grove of the Unborn by Lyn Venable Two Plus Two Makes Crazy by Walt Sheldon Song in a Minor Key C. L. Moore The...

Worlds of If was a three time winner of the Hugo Award for best science fiction magazine. Worlds of If discovered many talented writers who would go on to dominate genre fiction. Here are more than 250,000 words of some of the best stories ever published in its pages.

• The Snowbank Orbit by Fritz Leiber


• The Victor by Bryce Walton


• Breeder Reaction by Winston Marks


• Turning Point by Alfred Coppel


• Masters of Space by Edward E. Smith E. Everett Evans


• Cultural Exchange by Keith Laumer


• The Lonely Ones by...