The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: April 1955 (Volume 8, Number 4)
Cover by Chesley Bonestell ("Surveying Mars")

Stories: "Parallel" by J. Francis McComas (novelet)
"The Funeral" by Richard Matheson
"The Conquest by the Moon" by Washington Irving (reprint/condensed)
"The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer" by Lord Dunsany
"All the World Loves a Luvver" by Mack Reynolds
"On the Way to Her Sister" by J. B. Morton (reprint from 1954)
"Grouse are Scarce this Year" (verse) by Peter Dickinson [not on contents-page]
"Cast the First Shadow" by Marc Brandel (reprint from 1954)
"The Canvas Bag" by Alan E. Nourse
"A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (beginning of fix-up A Canticle for Leibowitz)
"No Place for Magic" by Maurice Procter (reprint from 1954)
"The Last Word" by Chad Oliver & Charles Beaumont.

Joseph W. Ferman is Publisher, Anthony Boucher is Editor. Book Reviews by Anthony Boucher.