num_pages: 191
description: Theme collection of 12 science fiction stories dealing with space travel taken from the early modern genre pulp magazines. Two stories by Isaac Asimov are included; among the other writers represented are A.E. Van Vogt, Hal Clement, Lewis Padgett (husband-wife team pen name of Henry Kuttner &amp; C.L. Moore), L. Ron Hubbard, Manly Wade Wellman &amp; Murray Leinster.Foreword (1950) essay by Martin Greenberg Introduction (1950) essay by Willy Ley Men Against the Stars (1938) novelette by Manly Wade Wellman The Red Death of Mars (1940) novelette by Robert Moore Williams The Iron Standard (1943) story by Henry Kuttner &amp; C.L. Moore [aka Lewis Padgett] Schedule (1945) story by Harry Walton Far Centaurus (1944) story by A.E. van Vogt Cold Front (1946) novelette by Hal Clement The Plants (1946) story by Murray Leinster Competition/Artur Blord (1943) novelette by E. Mayne Hull When Shadows Fall (1948) story by L. Ron Hubbard
language: English
title: Men Against the Stars
publisher: Pyramid Books