“Beyond Infinity” by Robert Spencer Carr. Reading: Fantasy Press, 1951. First edition. Jacket design by Hannes Bok.
From the blurb on the dust jacket:
The four stories that make up “Beyond Infinity” reveal unusual heights of imagination and a sure, smooth writing style that is rarely found in this type of work. Nor are these stories merely good science fiction – they are unusually good stories by any standard, ingenious tales of romance and adventure written for the Atomic Age.
The title story, “Beyond Infinity,” deals with a quest as old as the human race, and the first flight into space, a flight into realms “beyond infinity.”. . . In “Those Men From Mars,” Mr. Carr tells what happens when Martians visit the Earth, one group landing on the White House lawn, and the other at the Kremlin in Moscow! . . . “Morning Star” begins with a meeting of the greatest living scientists, assembled to discuss the world’s most dangerous weapon. An intruder slips in – a woman who is as baffling as she is beautiful – of whom it can truthfully be said that she is “out of this world.” . . . “Mutation” presents a fascinating answer to the question prodding the mind of every thinking person: “What about the effects of radiation after an atomic war?”
Here is writing of an unusually high order. At one and the same time “Beyond Infinity” will enthrall the dyed-in-the-wool science fiction fan, and will charm and delight the reader for whom science fiction is a strange and fearsome realm.
“Beyond Infinity” by Robert Spencer Carr. Reading: Fantasy Press, 1951. First edition. Jacket design by Hannes Bok.
From the blurb on the dust jacket:
The four stories that make up “Beyond Infinity” reveal unusual heights of imagination and a sure, smooth writing style that is rarely found in this type of work. Nor are these stories merely good science fiction – they are unusually good stories by any standard, ingenious tales of romance and adventure written for the Atomic Age.
The title story, “Beyond Infinity,” deals with a quest as old as the human race, and the first flight into space, a flight into realms “beyond infinity.”. . . In “Those Men From Mars,” Mr. Carr tells what happens when Martians visit the Earth, one group landing on the White House lawn, and the other at the Kremlin in Moscow! . . . “Morning Star” begins with a meeting of the greatest living scientists, assembled to discuss the world’s most dangerous weapon. An intruder slips in – a woman who is as baffling as she is beautiful – of whom it can truthfully be said that she is “out of this world.” . . . “Mutation” presents a fascinating answer to the question prodding the mind of every thinking person: “What about the effects of radiation after an atomic war?”
Here is writing of an unusually high order. At one and the same time “Beyond Infinity” will enthrall the dyed-in-the-wool science fiction fan, and will charm and delight the reader for whom science fiction is a strange and fearsome realm.