Recap / Stirring Science Stories

This page indexes the stories published in Stirring Science Stories:

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Stirring Science Stories, vol 1 no 1, February 1941

• "Dead Center", by S.D. Gottesman (Pen Name of Cyril M. Kornbluth)
• "Lunar Gun", by John L Chapman
• "Golden Nemesis", by David A Kyle
• "Rocket Mail", essay by editor/uncredited
• "Resilience", by Damon Knight
• "Citadel Of Thought", by James Blish
• "Today Rather Than Tomorrow", essay by editor/uncredited
• "Strange Return", by Lawrence Woods (Pen Name of Donald A Wollheim)

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The Vortex (with letters from Forrest J Ackerman and Robert W Lowndes)

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• "Thirteen O'Clock", by Cecil Corwin (Pen Name of Cyril M. Kornbluth)
• "Bones", by Donald A Wollheim

• "Old Trinity Churchyard", poem by A Merritt

• "The Key To Cornwall", by David H Keller
• "Out Of The Jar", by Charles R Tanner
• "The Devotee Of Evil", by Clark Ashton Smith
• "The Abyss", by Robert W Lowndes

• "Always Comes Evening", poem by Robert E. Howard

• "The Fantasy World", essay by editor

Cosmic Stories, vol 1 no 1, March 1941

• "Mecanica", by Frank Edward Arnold
• "The Martians Are Coming", by Robert W Lowndes
• "Man and the Machine: An Editorial", essay by editor
• "Crystal World ", by John L Chapman
• "Gravity Reversed", essay by editor/uncredited
• "The Man From The Future", by Donald A Wollheim
• "Return from M-15", by S.D. Gottesman (Pen Name of Cyril M. Kornbluth)
• "The Cosmian League", essay by editor/uncredited
• "Planet Leave", by Clifton B Kruse
• "The Secret Sense", by Isaac Asimov

• "Worlds in Exile", poem by Elton V. Andrews (Pen Name of Frederik Pohl)

• "The Last Viking", by Hugh Raymond (Pen Name of John B Michel)

• "Ambition", poem by Wilfred Owen Morley (Pen Name of Robert W Lowndes)

• "Purple Dandelions", by Millard Verne Gordon (Pen Name of Donald A Wollheim)

• "The Rocket", poem by Damon Knight

• "The Reversible Revolutions", by Cecil Corwin (Pen Name of Cyril M. Kornbluth)
• "Biped", by Basil Wells
• "New Directions", essay by Walter C. Davies
• "The Cosmoscope", essay by editor

Stirring Science Stories, vol 1 no 2, April 1941

• "Rebirth Of Tomorrow", by Hugh Raymond (Pen Name of John B Michel)
• "Blueprint", by Donald A Wollheim
• "The Castle On Outerplanet", by S.D. Gottesman (Pen Name of Cyril M. Kornbluth, co-written with Robert W Lowndes and Frederik Pohl)
• "!!!", by X (Pen Name of Donald A Wollheim)
• "Callistan Cabal", by James Blish
• "The Rocket Of 1955", by Cecil Corwin (Pen Name of Cyril M. Kornbluth)
• "War Rockets", essay by uncredited/editor
• "The Brontosaurus", by Robert G Thompson

• "The Fishers", poem by Damon Knight

• "Cosmophobia", by Millard Verne Gordon (Pen Name of Donald A Wollheim

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The Vortex (with letters by John W Bell, Isaac Asimov, and Mallory Kent)

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• "Black Flames", by Lawrence Woods (Pen Name of Robert W Lowndes and co-written with Donald A Wollheim)
• "Calypso's Island", by David H Keller
• "The Other", by Robert W Lowndes

• "The Wind from the River", poem by Richard Morrison (Pen Name of Robert W Lowndes)
• "The Burrowers Beneath", poem by Wilfred Owen Morley (Pen Name of Robert W Lowndes)

• "The Touching Point", by Edward J. Bellin (Pen Name of Henry Kuttner)
• "Ghost Story", by uncredited
• "The Coming Of The White Worm", by Clark Ashton Smith
• "The Doll Master", by Paul Dennis Lavond (Pen Name of Robert W Lowndes)
• "Swing Low", by Elmer Perdue
• "The Fantasy World", essay by editor

Review: The Devil And The Doctor by David H Keller, M.D. by editor

Cosmic Stories, vol 1 no 2, May 1941

• "Phoenix Planet", by James Blish
• "Dimension Of Darkness", by S.D. Gottesman (Pen Name of Cyril M. Kornbluth)
• "Power", by Hugh Raymond (Pen Name of John B Michel)
• "The Riddle Of Tanye", by WP Cockcroft
• "No Place To Go", by Edward J. Bellin (Pen Name of Cyril M. Kornbluth)
• "Time, Inc.", by John L Chapman
• "Science Fiction Index", essay by editor/uncredited
• "The Improbable", by Charles R Tanner
• "New Moon", by Basil Wells
• "The Cosmian League", essay by editor/uncredited
• "What Sorghum Says", by Cecil Corwin (Pen Name of Cyril M. Kornbluth)
• "Transitory Island", by Richard Wilson
• "Worlds Within Worlds", essay by editor/uncredited
• "So You Want to be a Space-Flier?", essay by Martin Pearson
• "The Cosmoscope", essay by editor

Review: Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon by editor/uncredited

Stirring Science Stories, vol 1 no 3, June 1941

• "The Pioneer", by Arthur J Burks
• "Martian Fantasy", by Henry Andrew Ackermann
• "Forgotten Tongue", by Walter C. Davies (Pen Name of Cyril M. Kornbluth)
• "Spokesman For Terra", by Hugh Raymond (Pen Name of John B Michel)
• "Monkey Language", essay by Joseph Gilbert
• "Human Mice Of Kordar", by Basil Wells
• "Jitterbug", by RR Winterbotham
• "Trails End", by Walter Kubilius

• "Earthlight on the Moon", poem by Lilith Lorraine

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The Vortex (with letters by Forrest J Ackerman and Joseph Gilbert)

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• "Mr Packer Goes To Hell", by Cecil Corwin (Pen Name of Cyril M. Kornbluth)
• "The Grey One", by Robert W Lowndes
• "The Words Of Guru", by Kenneth Falconer (Pen Name of Cyril M. Kornbluth)
• "The Silence", by Venard Mc Laughlin

• "Forbidden Books", poem by Wilfred Owen Morley (Pen Name of Robert W Lowndes)

• "Kazam Collects", by SD Gottesman (Pen Name of Cyril M. Kornbluth)
• "The Moon Artist", by David H Keller
• "The Fantasy World", essay by editor

Review: Lest Darkness Fall, by L. Sprague de Camp by editor

Cosmic Science-Fiction, vol 1 no 3, July 1941

• "Fire Power", by S.D. Gottesman (Pen Name of Cyril M. Kornbluth)
• "When Half Worlds Meet", by Hugh Raymond (Pen Name of John B Michel)
• "The Cosmian League", essay by editor/uncredited
• "Interference", by Walter C. Davies (Pen Name of Cyril M. Kornbluth)
• "Denvention! An Editorial", essay by editor
• "The Colossus Of Maia", by Lawrence Woods (Pen Name of Robert W Lowndes, co-written with Donald A Wollheim)
• "The City In The Sofa", by Cecil Corwin (Pen Name of Cyril M. Kornbluth)
• "Fantasy Fan Magazines", essay by editor/uncredited
• "The Real Thrill", by James Blish
• "The Unusual Case", by Walter Kubilius
• "The Red Death", by David H Keller
• "The Cosmoscope", essay by editor

Review: Presenting Moonshine by John Collier by editor/uncredited

Stirring Science Stories, vol 2 no 1, March 1942

• "The Perfect Invasion", by S.D. Gottesman (Pen Name of Cyril M. Kornbluth)
• "The Giant", by Basil Wells
• "Blind Flight", by Millard Verne Gordon (Pen Name of Donald A Wollheim)
• "The Day Has Come", by Walter Kubilius

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The Vortex (with various letters)

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• "The Golden Road", by Cecil Corwin (Pen Name of Cyril M. Kornbluth)
• "The Goblins Will Get You", by Hugh Raymond (Pen Name of John B Michel)
• "Masquerade", by Kenneth Falconer (Pen Name of Cyril M. Kornbluth)

• "Fear of Sleep", poem by Emil Petaja

• "The Long Wall", by Wilfred Owen Morley (Pen Name of Robert W Lowndes)
• "The Unfinished City", by Martin Pearson (Pen Name of Donald A Wollheim)
• "The Fantasy World", essay by editor

Review: The Other Worlds by Phil Stong by editor

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