Blind Play

Nick Pappas, hired-killer from Callisto, was strictly out for Pappas--out for Number One, as they used to say. And now those fools in the vanishing spaceship thought that number was up!

"Blind Play" appeared in "Planet Stories," May 1951, pages 24 - 31.

The Statistomat Pitch

The Statistomat was no different from General Computer's Incomac when growing one's investments. So how could a new and small company compete with one of the largest and most well-funded companies in the country?

Jed Borch, who had a modest estate to invest, wanted to find out...

"The Statistomat Pitch" appeared in "Infinity Science Fiction," January 1958, pages 92 - 100.

Horace Chandler Davis (August 12, 1926 – September 24, 2022) was an American-Canadian mathematician, writer, educator, and political activist, and a minor science fiction writer.

Davis began his writing career in Astounding Science Fiction in 1946. From 1946 through 1962 he produced a spate of science fiction stories, mostly published there. One of the earliest, published May 1946, was The Nightmare, later the lead story in A Treasury of Science Fiction, edited by Groff Conklin.

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