The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1956

Cover art from "Exploration of Mars": 1380 miles out from Earth on the way to Mars. Ships in plane of ecliptic. Contents The Country of the Kind • short story by Damon Knight -- Cartoon by Ronald Searle A Time to Survive (Pantropy series) • by James Blish Rufus • by Kem Bennett The Shoddy Lands • by C.S. Lewis Martie and I • by Miriam Allen deFord The Ultimate Price • by Winona McClintic Review: The October Country by Ray Bradbury • by Anthony Boucher Review: Caviar by Theodore Sturgeon • by Anthony Boucher Review: No Boundaries by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore • by Anthony Boucher Review: Martians, Go Home by Fredric Brown • by Anthony Boucher Review: Tunnel in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein • by Anthony Boucher Review: Star Guard by Andre Norton • by Anthony Boucher Review: Secret of the Martian Moons by Donald A. Wollheim • by Anthony Boucher Review: Spaceward Bound by Slater Brown • by Anthony Boucher I, Claude (Claude Adams series) • by Charles Beaumont and Chad Oliver Final Clearance • by Rachel Maddux The Message • by Isaac Asimov The Census Takers • by Frederik Pohl