Amazing Stories, September 1951

Amazing Stories, September 1951 This issue of *Amazing Stories* (Vol. 25, No. 9) features five complete science fiction narratives. The lead novelette is Edwin Benson's "A World He Never Made" (28,000 words), illustrated by Rod Ruth, in which radio experimenter Stuart Case detects an unusual signal and journeys across space to rescue a woman on a dying planet. Frank M. Robinson contributes "You've Got to Believe" (9,700 words), about a man named Bummy who gains the ability to inhabit others' bodies and encounters unexpected consequences. Willard Hawkins' "The Green Blood of Treachery" (17,500 words), illustrated by Virgil Finlay, concerns unrequited love complicated when the woman adopts a green alien disguise and enters danger. William P. McGivern's "Some Wolves Can't Kill!" (14,000 words) follows Percy Pettibone, who drinks with a non-existent person and begins exhibiting lupine behavior. Gene Hunter's short "The Betrayers" (5,400 words) depicts Marko, a prisoner of the Jovrans, receiving an unexpected female companion after his capture. The issue includes editorial commentary on recent H-bomb tests at Eniwetok Atoll, plus columns on science fiction topics and reader correspondence.