In the hallowed, humming chambers of a private New York laboratory, renowned physicist James Ferguson collapses under the assault of a silent, crackling green spark. The eerie discharge, the precise hue of the forbidden nebulium line, leaves him visibly aged and cognitively scrambled. His brilliant daughter Vera, a capable scientist herself, experiences the flash's bizarre, alien intelligence—a feeling of being 'handled' by something arbitrary. With the aid of Alan Cunningham and the fasti...

Dr Andrew Crane is a researcher at the Erickson Foundation for Electrical Research in Seattle, aided by "his technical assistant, the stocky Neils Bork". Bork has a drinking problem, and is difficult to deal with, none of which prevents his mysterious physical and mental transformation into a new being, with new abilities and a new name: Miguel De Soto!"His best work shows an admirable imaginative flair. He loved to do things on a grand scale, sometimes conveying his effects with a...

Seeds of Life is a variation on the Jekyll and Hyde theme. A technical assistant is zapped by radiation in a laboratory and is transformed into genius. Initially, the genius builds incredible devices that make millions of dollars. But the genius goes to the Dark Side and his evil threatens to unleash new horrors on the United States.

Our 95th issue has a lot of fun stuff—starting off with a pair of original mysteries by Robert Lopresti and Mindy Quigley (thanks to Acquiring Editors Michael Bracken an Barb Goffman). Also on the mystery side, we have a pair of classic novels by Hulbert Footner R. Austin Freeman, plus a solve-it-yourself puzzler from Hal Charles.On the fantastic side of things, A.R. Morlan has a modern tale of clones, Alfred Coppel has a scientific monster, Seabury Quinn has a weird horror, and Fr...

A scientifically-precipitated, out-of-control tale of evolution set in Antarctica—it predates Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness—by a mathematician of note who also wrote science fiction.In The Greatest Adventure, an expedition to Antarctica discovers remnants of an elder race with advanced technology. These ancients had discovered the secret of developing new life-forms . . . but when the mutations threatened to run amok, their creators ento...

The novel concerns an African expedition. Swain, a member of the expedition, becomes demented and attempts to exterminate a peculiar species of African ape. The other members of the expedition are befriended by an intelligent ape called the Captain. The expedition discovers that the apes are in fact humans that have evolved in reverse due to exposure to a meteor and that the Captain was once human.

THEY FOUND A LOST WORLD OF WEIRD MONSTERS. When a sea captain brought a baby dinosaur to the home of a wealthy, brilliant scientist, it triggered off an expedition that well deserves the title of THE GREATEST ADVENTURE. For the trail of that little creature led straight into the unexplored, quake-shaken Antarctic to a lost world overrun with the monsters of an evolution gone wild! In every way a classic of science-fiction, it’s breathtaking story-telling by John Taine in ebook format at la...

The Time Stream is a science fiction novel by American writer John Taine (pseudonym of Eric Temple Bell). The novel was originally serialized in four parts in the magazine Wonder Stories beginning in December 1931.The novel concerns time travel and links the world Eos at the beginning of the universe with the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

To the rim of Earth's last frontier they fought, a man and a girl who held the sole key to a long dead civilization — the key that might let it live again across the centuries!

Eric Temple Bell in 1924, published The Purple Sapphire, his first novel. Bell adopted the pseudonym of John Taine for all of his fictional work while continuing to write non-fiction under his own name. In the field of mathematics, Bell polynomials and Bell numbers of combinatorics are named in his honour and in 1924 he was awarded the Bocher Memorial Prize for his work in mathematical analysis.The Purple Sapphire, published in 1924, revolves around a mad scientistand an ex...

Seeds of Life is a science fiction novel by American writer John Taine (pseudonym of Eric Temple Bell). It was first published in 1951 by Fantasy Press in an edition of 2,991 copies. The novel originally appeared in the magazine Amazing Stories Quarterly in October 1931.The novel concerns the creation of a superman using radiation.

Homer Eon Flint was one of the pioneers of science fiction -- publishing science fiction stories in pulp magazines before the term "science fiction" had even been coined. Unfortunately, he died violently -- and mysteriously -- at age 36, leaving behind a grieving widow and three young children. Prior to his shocking end in 1924, Homer's speculative fiction made him a leading contributor to the era's top pulp magazines. Hundreds of thousands of readers thrilled to his tales of life beyond E...