UFOs and Related Subjects (Lynn Catoe, 1969)

Anthology of science fit:tlon stories in which the central themes revolve
around "flying saucers" and imaginative solutions to the mystery. Two
non-fiction essays, one pro-UFO by Ivan T. Sanrt~rson, and one anti-
UFO by Lester Del Rey, are included. Other outstanding science
fiction writers such as Robert Bloch, Judith Merril, Theodore Sturgeon,
John Stephens, Miriam Allen C:e Ford, Bertram Chandler, Edward D. Hoch,
Aicbn van Alm, John Nicholson, and Richard Wilson are represented.
Short, Gertrude, A visitor from Venus. New York, William-Frederick Press,
1949. 43 p.
Fiction. A woman from Venus indicates the possibility of world peace
based on organized action by women everywhere.
Smith, Edward E. The first lens man. Reading, Pa., Fantasy Press, 1950.
306 p.
Fiction. The lensman are a group of men and women from many worlds,
trained to mental and physical attainment so high as to mark them
as beginning of a superior race. Ultimately, through selective mating,
they will achieve a point of development where they can become guardians of
the galaxy. The lens itself is a communication device worn on the wrist of a
lensman; if worn by anyone but its owner it ~roves deadly.
----- Galactic patrol. Reading, Pa., Fantasy Press, 1950. 273 p.
Fiction. The Galactic Patrol is an interstellar police force organized
to combat the piracy and lawlessness threatening the structure of galactic
civilization. Behind the scenes are prime movers. The Arisians, whose spores,
projected through the galaxy, caused life to form in their image on many
worlds, manipulate events for good. The Eddorians, creatures from another
space continuum, in their lust for power are the cause of most ills.
Van Vogt, Alfred E. Slan. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1951. 247 p.
Fiction. Slan is the story CJf a nine-year-old boy who is a member of
a superhuman race. His people possess both mental and physical
superiority, being capable of reading minds through the aid of
antenna-like tendrils in their hair; two hearts invest them with extra-
ordinary stamina. His parents killed, the boy fights to survive in a
society where organized hunts are conducted against slans by the humans
and where tendrilless slans -- born without the ability to read minds --
are even more dangero.ts enemies.
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