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BLIND MAN'S BUFF AND OTHER STORIES
BY MALCOLM JAMESON
Thrilling interplanetary adventures from Malcolm Jameson, author of "Bullard of the Space Patrol". Includes:
• Blind Man's Buff - The Commission had a fine-sounding offer. Just show'em how much of Venus you wanted and it was yours. Trouble was, you had to make a map of the unmappable!
• Sand - Mars is a desert world, a dry, rusted corpse of a planet. And deserts are always tricky things—but a world of shifting sand made trickier yet by shifty crooks—
• Lilies of Life - There was a disease on Venus, and the natives seemed to have a cure. But the symbiosis involved was madder even than the usual madness of Venus' life-cycles—
• God’s Footstool - You may have heard the Earth was round. More correctly, that it's an "oblate spheroid." But if you think that's a definite shape, or that we know the shape of the planet even, this fact article may make things a little less clear. Saying "The world's all awry" is stating a fact, not an impression!
• Efficiency - A probability zero short short about those claims of increased fuel efficiency.
• Soup King - The ship crashed on Venus, with a gold mine as its landing spot. Fine for everybody but the cook. But he did better—he fell in the soup!
• Hobo God - It wasn't their idea, but they stumbled on the perfect ambassador to the Martians. He had a way of thinking and acting that Martians understood—
• You Can't Win - When a big-time crooked gambler runs up against a space navigator's computation of curves as applied to gambling devices—he can't win!
• A Question of Salvage - The salvage fleets had no place for a man with a conscience — but sometimes one showed up, and sometimes they left “junk” behind, when the ether storms were strong—
• Alien Envoy - These aliens were really alien. As totally different from man as is a cactus plant. Would that difference lead to inevitable extermination war — or complete lack of conflict?
• The Monster Out of Space - This was no planetoid wandering in the void. It was a living monster, threatening to eat whole worlds. Could Berol's science stop it?
Malcolm Jameson (1891-1945) began writing only seven years before his death. Yet in that short span he wrote and sold more than 70 novelettes and short stories. Critic Groff Conklin calls Jameson's work "lively, ingenious and readable."
This edition includes a linked "Table of Contents" and original illustrations from the stories' magazine publications.
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