Flying Saucers From Other Worlds

Flying Saucers from Other Worlds, July 1957 This issue features a substantial sci-fi serial novella, "Quest of Brail" (35,000 words) by Richard S. Shaver, alongside shorter fiction. Evelyn Martin's "A Woman Is a Non-Mechanical Thing" (3500 words) depicts a world in planetary death-throes: volcanic eruptions, atmospheric collapse, and catastrophic quakes as a sun approaches nova. The protagonist Drac, a machine-engineer persecuted by the anti-technological priesthood of Nekka, escapes with a captive Temple Virgin via spaceship. Other fiction includes S. J. Byrne's "Spaceship Named Desire" (7500 words) and Robert Moore Williams' "The DeTatum Effect" (6000 words). The magazine also includes an editorial by Ray Palmer addressing science fiction publishing's economic crisis, reader letters, and a profile section. A prominent book advertisement promotes Orfeo Angelucci's "The Secret of the Saucers," presented as factual UFO testimony.