# Fantastic Universe v02 n05 \[1954-12\]

fep • The Story Behind the Cover ... (Fantastic Universe December 1954) • essay by Frank Belknap Long 4 • Christmas on Mars • short story by Irving E. Cox, Jr. 18 • The Doll That Does Everything • short story by Richard Matheson 25 • The Laminated Woman • short story by Evelyn E. Smith 39 • Thank You, Member • short story by Roger Dee 47 • Talent for the Future • short story by John Christopher 56 • Down With the Tyrants • short story by Hal Ellson 65 • That for a Hermitage • short story by Ed M. Clinton, Jr. 75 • The Big-Hearted Racehorse • (1953) • short story by Dal Stivens 81 • Once, in the Saddle • short story by Ralph Williams 90 • Compassion Circuit • (1954) • short story by John Wyndham 99 • The Stranger Was Himself • \[Psychotechnic League\] • short story by Poul Anderson 109 • The Pompous Asteroid • short story by Winston K. Marks \[as by Winston Marks\] 120 • Bernard Papy—Dreamer • short story by Theodore Pratt

- Kind: Magazine
- Series: Fantastic Universe
- Year: 1954
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/FantasticUniverseV02N05195412)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can read it: Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says)

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