Super Science Stories, November 1949

Super Science Stories, November 1949 This issue contains two featured novels and several shorter works. Fredric Brown's "Gateway to Darkness" concerns humanity's final struggle for conquest on an overcrowded world, while Neil R. Jones's "Parasite Planet" depicts an encounter with beings demanding a stolen secret, threatening to turn protagonists into living metal statues. Murray Leinster's novelette "This Star Shall Be Free" follows a cave-dweller named Tork who discovers a star box with god-like powers. Short stories include Frank Belknap Long's "The Timeless Man," featuring a man mysteriously revived across time; Margaret St. Clair's "Child of Void," concerning tiny wizards threatening Earth; Ray Bradbury's "Impossible," about a formless entity assuming dream shapes; John D. MacDonald's "Appointment for Tomorrow," in which Larkin confronts doomsday science; and John Wade Farrell's "The Sleepers," featuring two men challenging an entrancing dream. Departments include "Fandom's Corner," "The Science Fictioneer," and reader correspondence.