Scottish born Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (1850-1894) is probably best known for his classic adventure novels Treasure Island (1883), Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Kidnapped (both from 1886). Plagued with ill health throughout his life, he died early at the age of forty-four on the island of Upolu, one of the …

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“A Passage to Beneris” aired as an episode of Suspense on September 23, 1942. Based on the story by 1933 Pultizer Prize-winning author T. S. Stribling (1881-1965–he won the Pulitzer for his 1932 novel The Store), “A Passage to Beneris” takes place in the Caribbean port city of Port au Spain, Trinidad. It involves a …

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Exploring Tomorrow was a short-lived replacement show which ran from December 11, 1957 through June 13, 1958. Its 29 episodes were introduced by none other than the legendary editor of Astounding Science Fiction, John W. Campbell, Jr.  Campbell also provided brief commentary during short breaks within many of the episodes, some of which were adapted …

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Murray Leinster was the pseudonym of Will F. Jenkins (1896-1975). Galaxy magazine published “Sam, This Is You” in its May 1955 issue (cover at right). It tells the story of your average, good-natured fellow–a war vet now telephone lineman in an average job with an average life, whose girlfriend, Rosie, urges him to better himself. …

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Fletcher Pratt’s “Dr. Grimshaw’s Sanitarium” first appeared in the May 1934 issue of Amazing Stories (the cover, pictured at left, being one of the ugliest ever to grace SF’s first “official” SF magazine, and atypical of the magazine’s usual extravagant, over-the-top, Sense of Wonder fare). Dimension X  (1950-51, the forerunner to X Minus One {1955-58}) …

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