Amazing Stories, June 1963

AMAZING STORIES, June 1963 This issue features the two-part serial *The Programmed People* by Jack Sharkey, which opens a totalitarian society built on mandatory voting and conformity. Lloyd Bodger, navigating the rigid Hive's Temple of collective voting, discovers a fugitive blonde girl being hunted as a traitor—though she mysteriously seems unconcerned about facing "Readjustment." The novelet *The Encounter* by J.G. Ballard spans 90 pages. Short stories include *The Demi-Urge* by Thomas Disch, *Telempathy* by Vance Simonds, and *Through Channels* by Arthur Porges. A profile examines author Eric Frank Russell. The editorial discusses Soviet astronomer Shklovsky's controversial theory that signals from advanced civilizations should be sought in the Andromeda Nebula rather than nearby stars.