Imaginative Tales, March 1956

# Imaginative Tales, March 1956

This science fiction pulp features a complete 20,000-word novel, "Enemy of the Qua" by Dwight V. Swain, in which a prisoner named Stark, imprisoned by alien overlords on Mars, kills a Bherni guard during a violent confrontation in the compound. The story opens with Stark concealing a broken gear-bar and luring the basilisk-eyed guard away from the guard towers, then striking down the seven-foot creature in brutal hand-to-hand combat to save an older man being beaten by the guard. The issue also contains five shorter works: "Late Arrival" by A. Bertram Chandler, "The Doormen of Space" by S. M. Tenneshow, "Like a Silver Arrow" by Ivor Jorgensen, "No Place for an Earthman" by C. H. Thames, and "This Treasure Is Mine!" by Paul W. Foirman, plus editorial commentary on emerging space station programs and technological progress.