Weird Science-Fantasy # 23

Story 1: "The Children"

Colonists on a new world have their children taken from them by the government.

Story 2: "Fish Story"

The fish life forms on a distant strange blue planet are faced with their fading sun soon going nova and exploding, only to leave their planet without life-sustaining oxygen. Then they see an alien vessel approaching and fill it with water and drown the crew inside, and take the ship back to Earth in hopes that their water areas will provide a new home.

Story 5: "The Flying Machine"

When Emperor Yuan discovers that a villager has learned how to create a flying machine, he has him killed so the secret won't fall into the wrong hands.

Story 6: "Fair Trade"

After a nuclear holocaust, a tribe sells Manhattan Island to aliens.