Amazing Stories, November 1968

Amazing Stories, November 1968 This issue features "Power of the Nail" by Harlan Ellison and Samuel R. Delany, their first collaboration between Nebula-winning authors, depicting an Earther observer and his estranged wife on the peaceful alien world of Saquetta, where natives are naturally reincarnated after death—until their presence attracts predatory molloks and disrupts the ecosystem. Short stories include David R. Bunch's "The Monsters," Jack Wodhams' "Try Again," and R. A. Lafferty's "This Grand Carcass." Ray Bradbury's "The Dwarf" appears as an award winner. Novelets include Theodore Sturgeon's "The Traveling Crag" and Richard Matheson's "The Last Day," plus Henry Hasse's complete short novel "He Who Shrank." An editorial by Harry Harrison discusses science fiction's changing acceptance status internationally, particularly in Britain. Additional features include critical commentary by Samuel R. Delany and William Atheling Jr. on SF literature, and Leon E. Stover's science feature.