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_Ace Book D-103--35¢_
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D-139 ALIEN FROM ARCTURUS by Gordon R. Dickson
THE ATOM CURTAIN by Nick Boddie Williams
S-133 (25¢) ADVENTURES ON OTHER PLANETS
A new anthology edited by Donald A. Wollheim
D-121 THREE FACES OF TIME by Sam Merwin, Jr.
THE STARS ARE OURS! by Andre Norton
D-118 THE PARADOX MEN by Charles L. Harness
DOME AROUND AMERICA by Jack Williamson
D-113 ONE IN THREE HUNDRED by J. T. McIntosh
THE TRANSPOSED MAN by Dwight V. Swain
D-110 NO WORLD OF THEIR OWN by Poul Anderson
THE 1,000 YEAR PLAN by Isaac Asimov
D-125 THE MAN WHO UPSET THE UNIVERSE
by Isaac Asimov
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