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• "The Golden Egg" (1941) by Theodore Sturgeon

  22 April 2017 by Theodore Sturgeon

  This quite wonderful exploration of man-woman relationships by an enormously superior being from another dimension of space-time will for sure have you chuckling and nodding in agreement throughout, and admiring the skill and talent of Theodore Sturgeon in his initial and possibly most creative (...)

• "Mitkey Rides Again" (1950) by Frederic Brown

  19 April 2017 by Frederic Brown

  If you liked Frederic Brown’s superb story The Star Mouse about the rocket scientist Professor Oberburger and his precious and very precocious mouse-assistant Mitkey - and how could you not have liked/loved it? - then you will want to catch up on the later adventures of Mitkey and his Minnie (...)

• "Farewell to the Master (The Day the Earth Stood Still)" (1940) by Harry Bates

  13 April 2017 by Harry Bates

  First published in the splendid October 1940 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, this extremely ambitious 50-page novella became the basis of one of the most highly-regarded science-fiction films of its time and even all time, the quite wonderful "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951), remade (...)

• "He Who Shrank" (1936) by Henry Hasse

  11 April 2017 by Henry Hasse

  The greatest scientist the world has ever had has invented a extraordinary new means of exploring the world of the infinitely small, and sends his devoted assistant on a mind-boggling series of adventures exploring the infinite series of concentric universes contained within the most minute (...)

• "The Star Mouse" (1942) by Frederick Brown

  8 April 2017 by Frederic Brown

  Featuring a genial German rocket scientist - ah, if only they had all been as good-natured and likeable and well-intentioned as him! - and his charming and soon-to-be-super-intelligent mouse neighbour, with whom he has struck up a warm and talkative and very cheese-based relationship, that he (...)