Super Science Stories, April 1951

SUPER SCIENCE STORIES — April 1951 This issue of *Super Science Stories* (Vol. 8, No. 1, April 1951) contains seven science fiction stories. The two novelettes are "The Death Star" by B. Holden, concerning an Earthman's discovery of a world fulfilling all human dreams except one necessary for survival, and "Danger Dimension" by Stanley Mullen, featuring an advance guard of Earth's last hope traveling through a black portal. Five shorter stories complete the issue: "The Last Dark" by La Selle Gilman depicts Earth's final struggle between an elite and a small group proving their superiority; Katherine MacLean's "High Flight" follows a solitary explorer who plants humanity's first footprint on the moon but returns to disbelief; Walter Kubillius's "Eternal Earthling" presents a protagonist confronting a barrier made of time itself; Frank Belknap Long's "The Unfinished" portrays a universal conqueror enslaved to a green world, battling over the question of human identity; and Leigh Brackett's "Child of the Green Light" depicts a band fighting to uncover Mercury's orbital secret for human survival. The issue includes departments on fandom and science fiction conducted by James V. Taurasi and Frederik Pohl respectively, plus reader correspondence.