LeDoux, the Interplanetary Company pilot, had flown too close to Callisto in an attempt to get a gravity assist from Jupiter to make up for lost time. But the Callistonians were known to waylay travellers in order to sate their 'curiosity' about humans. That meant that Verger, Anderson, LeDoux, and their 'cargo' of music-playing wives for the exiled miners on Ganymede, were in grave danger. But, the Callistonians didn't know anything about music. Maybe Verger could use that to their advantage...

"Rhythm Rides the Rocket" appeared in "Science Fiction Classics," published in October 1940 on pages 28 - 41.

Alfred Johannes Olsen (April 12, 1884 – May 20, 1956), better known under his pen name Bob Olsen, was an American science fiction writer. He moved to California and started the Olsen Advertising Agency, while writing stories for magazines like "Amazing Stories." Olsen often wrote humorous science fiction in "Amazing Stories," from 1927 to 1936. He was one of the first writers to use the phrase "space marine." Ray Bradbury, just a teenager at the time, visited Bob Olsen often for mentorship, friendship, as well as for the sharing of ideas.

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Porky's ego wouldn't stay in his own body, and that, believe it or not, was what saved the city!

Today's story is "The Man who Saved New York" by Ray Cummings. It appeared in the July 1943 issue of "Science Fiction Stories" on pages 69 to 78.

Ray Cummings (born Raymond King Cummings) (August 30, 1887, New York, New York – January 23, 1957, Mount Vernon, New York) was an American author of science fiction literature and comic books.

From 1914 to 1919, he worked with Thomas Edison as a personal assistant, where he arranged phonograph record albums and wrote labels for Edison Records.

Cummings is identified as one of the "founding fathers" of the science fiction genre. His most highly regarded fictional work was the novel "The Girl in the Golden Atom" published in 1922, which was a consolidation of a short story of the same name (in which he combined idea of Fitz James O'Brien's The Diamond Lens with H. G. Wells's The Time Machine,) and a sequel, "The People of the Golden Atom."

He recycled the plot of "The Girl in the Golden Atom" for a two-part Captain America tale, "Princess of the Atom" (Captain America Comics #25 & #26.)

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The Venusians had kidnapped Stanley Murdock, shown him around their underground base in the desert of New Mexico and told him of their plans to conquer Earth and make slaves of its populace. And then, having no use for him, released him.

It was the best joke ever according to the Venusian sense of humor, for who would believe him?

"The Vanguard of Venus" was available to readers through an advertisement in the September 1928 issue of "Amazing Stories" on page 557.

Landell Bartlett (1897-1972) was a Colorado-born accountant, editor, columnist, local historian, and poet. He published three science fiction stories and was said to have been a friend of Robert A. Heinlein. He was a member of the Colorado science fiction fan community up to at least the 1950s.

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