Astounding Science Fiction August 1959


(Cover Van Dongen)

The Outsiders

(Novelette)

There's always a backwater area - the sticks - a place that isn't a frontier because it isn't on the way to anywhere, isn't anything itself. And always some people who live there. In the galaxy it was the Rim. It wasn't anywhere, and there wasn't any place to go...

Publications

Astounding Science Fiction August 1959
Astounding Science Fiction January 1960 (Australian Edition)

Familiar Pattern

(As by George Whitley)

(Novelette)

A pattern may be an old and familiar one, many times repeated in history. But it's still a totally new and unpredictable catastrophe that never happened before...when it happens to you.

Publications

Astounding Science Fiction August 1959
Astounding Science Fiction January 1960 (Australian Edition)
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