Astounding Stories #75

Young Tom Powers returns from World War II physically unchanged by the years, remaining forever young while his friends grow old around him—until a psychiatrist's investigation uncovers a suppressed memory from his wartime service in England that holds the key to his impossible condition. When Tom journeys back to the English village where it all began, he discovers the truth about his past and reunites with a figure from his memories, only to find that recovering what was lost comes with an unexpected price.

Jeff Random, a legendary hunter-turned-game warden, finds his quiet life on the prehistoric planet Icon I disrupted when his old associate Morton Greade arrives with a scheme to film the primitive Neanderthal tribes for profit. When Greade's ruthless plan to stage tribal warfare spirals out of control, Random must choose between his past as a hunter and his present duty to protect the fragile world he's sworn to guard.

Harvey Kiron, a botanist obsessed with developing a universal plant that can thrive in any climate, sacrifices everything—his career, his marriage, his home—chasing a theory that alien spores hold the key to his dream. When he finally succeeds in capturing a spore from outer space and coaxes it to grow, the rapidly evolving plant begins to take on a life of its own, forcing Harvey to confront the true cost of his ambition. "The Glittering Nightmare!" explores what happens when scientific passion becomes blind obsession, and one man's breakthrough becomes something far darker than he imagined.

When Harry Wilson stumbles upon a mysterious idol on Thanksgiving morning, he's suddenly granted the power to make his wishes come true—and he doesn't waste the opportunity. Using the idol's magic to conjure money and orchestrate fortune after fortune, Harry builds himself into a wealthy businessman, but his meteoric rise comes at a terrible cost to everyone around him. As his ambition grows darker and more ruthless, Harry discovers that some wishes carry consequences he never bargained for.

When a new rocket liner carrying pilot Mike Lawrence and stewardess Abby Allen launches without a proper shakedown flight, an unexpected storm knocks the ship off course and damages its engines, trapping the vessel in an endless orbital loop. Now Mike must risk a dangerous spacewalk to repair the engines and break free from the mysterious gravitational pull, all while keeping panicked passengers calm and struggling against the isolation of the void. Will he have what it takes to save the ship—and prove to Abby that a rocket jockey can be the adventurer she's always dreamed of?