Albrekt Verbrug was confident in his ability to hijack the Mars-Titan freighter 'By Jove,' and deliver its cargo of lithium and other materials to his comrades in the Flanjo military. But the crew of the 'By Jove' were experienced spacemen and Albrekt was not.

"Blow the Man Down" appeared in "Worlds of If Science Fiction," March 1955, pages 92 to 107.

Charles Louis Fontenay (March 17, 1917 – January 27, 2007) was an American journalist and science fiction writer. He wrote science fiction novels and short stories.

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Nobody knew that Gruin had killed his sweetheart, but her little red heels tapped a march of death wherever he went, driving him to a desperate resolve.

Today's story is Clicking Red Heels, by Paul Ernst. It appeared in the June 1937 issue of Weird Tales on pages 668 to 677.

Paul Frederick Ernst (November 7, 1899, Akron, Ohio – September 21, 1985, Pinellas County, Florida) was an American pulp fiction writer. He is best known as the writer of the original 24 "Avenger" novels, published by Street & Smith under the house name Kenneth Robeson.

His stories appeared in a number of early science fiction and fantasy magazines, including Astounding Stories, Strange Tales and Amazing, and he was the author of the Doctor Satan series (8 stories in all) which ran in Weird Tales from 1935 to 1936. His most famous work was the original 24 “The Avenger” stories in the eponymous pulp magazine between 1939 and 1942.

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Bertrand Baxter was a man's man living in a household of women, most of whom baffled him. But, when he discovered a unique connection to his youngest daughter, who was still a baby, he devised a plan to understand women better.

"Go To Sleep, My Darling" appeared in "Infinity Science Fiction," November 1958, page 99 - 109.

Winston Kinney Marks (1915-1979) was an American author of Science Fiction short stories who also wrote as Win Marks and used the pseudonyms Win Kinney and Ken Winney, each for just one story. He began publishing with "Mad Hatter" for Unknown in May 1940, but then, after "Manic Perverse" (October 1941 Astounding), was not heard of again until 1953 when he published The Water Eater (June 1953 Galaxy). He published nearly 60 further stories to 1959, with two final SF Magazine appearances in the late 1960s. His style was mildly hard-bitten and amusing. A posthumous collection is The Test Colony and Other Stories (2012).

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