Science Fiction Plus, June 1953

Nightmare Planet by Murray Leinster (complete novel) follows the descendants of castaways from the wrecked space-liner *Icarus*, stranded forty generations ago on an uncolonized, cloud-covered world. Originally seeded with microorganisms and basic flora and fauna by the Ecological Preparation Ship *Ludred*, the planet evolved into a nightmarish environment of riotous, aggressive biological growth. The humans have devolved into near-savages, losing all memory of their origins, technology, fire, and even the existence of sunlight beyond the perpetual cloud cover. The narrative begins with dawn breaking over their valley home. Additionally, this issue features the first part of The Stolen Minute by Pierre Devaux and H.G. Viot (translated from French); The Dimensional Terror by Harry Walton; and The Spiral Intelligence by Frank Belknap Long. Non-fiction includes Hugo Gernsback's editorial on skepticism in science-fiction and an article on Saturn by Isabel M. Lewis.